Senior Organisational Development Practitioner

Canonical is seeking a Senior Organisational Development Practitioner to join their Talent Development team. This role is crucial for setting the standard for coaching and organisational development within the company, focusing on developing leaders and managers to achieve excellence. The position is remote and available across EMEA and the Americas.

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. They are known for their global distributed collaboration model and commitment to open source innovation across various sectors like cloud, data science, AI, and IoT. Join a growing, founder-led company that is changing the world of software.

If you are passionate about developing leaders and driving organisational excellence in a dynamic, remote-first environment, we encourage you to apply.

Company Overview

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 of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Quick Details

• Salary Range: Not Specified
• Job Type: Full-time
• Experience: 5 Year+
• Qualifications: high-school

Key Responsibilities

• Coaching leaders to visibly raise their game against a clear standard of management excellence.
• Landing the hard conversations, because you coach leaders to make them happen.
• Turning 360 feedback into real, followed-through commitments, not a report that gets filed.
• Leaving an organisation you take on visibly better led, off a sharp first-weeks diagnosis and a plan you own and drive.
• Developing the practitioners in the field so they get visibly better at their craft under your supervision.
• Setting the bar for how coaching and organisational development is done at Canonical.

Requirements

• Deep, hands-on coaching and organisational-development practice with real leaders and teams, not just programme design.
• A track record of measurably changing how leaders behave, with specific examples you can talk through.
• Credibility: you can walk into a room of directors and be taken seriously.
• Effectiveness operating inside someone else's organisation without formal authority.
• A clear and honest philosophy of development: you know where coaching helps, and you are candid about where a role or fit decision is the right call.
• An exceptional academic track record from high school and university.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Benefits

• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.