Talent Scientist
Job description
A Talent Scientist role focused on the science of talent and performance, driving talent analytics, behavioural interviewing and hiring process improvement. It is not a recruiter position; it supports Hiring Leads with objective, scientifically rigorous selection processes.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA region
What you'll do
- Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently
- Conduct in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours
- Build key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in our operational processes
- Drive data driven insights, making sure our decision making process is robust and supportive to inform our decisions
- Consider our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impacts their experience
- Review and streamline hiring processes and tools to drive continuous improvement
- Work with external third parties and platforms to ensure we maximise our return on investment
- Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this
What we're looking for
- An exceptional academic background from high school and university, with a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology based subject
- Experience of hiring talent in the technology or consulting industry
- A highly data drive mindset with the ability to create measurable outcomes
- Passionate about how an organisation selects talent using scientific approaches with viewpoint on how to predict and measure hiring outcomes
- Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns using SQL, with Python and/or advanced statistical analysis preferable
- Exposure/appreciation of psychometric assessments, including interpretation
- Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview
- A high level of personal organisation and self drive to work remotely and be effective
- Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each
Nice to have
- Experience in sourcing and headhunting with the ability to teach our senior leadership team how to hunt for industry leaders
- Experience in statistical significance testing and experience in Bayesian inference and/or predictive analytics and ML
- Exposure to the following tools: LinkedIn Talent Insights, Greenhouse, DISC profiling, Superset
- Psychometric validity and reliability metrics
Your team
Talent Science
A team with a mission to ensure we follow objective, scientifically rigorous and efficient processes to select the very best new colleagues regardless of location, culture or background.
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.
Mission
Changing the world on a daily basis through open source; the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud.
Key facts
- 2004
- Open source software
- Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- Remote-first company since its inception in 2004
- Recruits on a global basis
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity and inclusion