Canonical is hiring a
HR Generalist

Summary

Join Canonical as an HR Generalist to support the Americas region in a global distributed collaboration company with 1,100+ colleagues across 75 countries. The role involves providing HR guidance, managing benefit programs, supporting the full life-cycle of HR, leading and participating in projects, creating corporate policies, ensuring consistency of application, and more. The ideal candidate should have a track record of exceptional achievement, relevant professional qualifications, knowledge of Brazilian or Canadian HR practices and employment laws, and be self-directed, organized, and able to travel up to 4 times a year.

Requirements

• Track record of exceptional achievement from high school, through graduate studies and career
• Relevant professional qualification and certifications
• Excellent practical insights into Brazilian or Canadian HR practices and employment laws

Responsibilities

• Provide HR guidance to team members and managers, setting high expectations of behaviour and performance
• Partner with line managers to provide employee relations advice on global policies and procedures
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness in processing employee changes, joiners and leavers
• Manage and drive benefit programs spanning our Americas location (Brazil, Canada and US)
• Liaise with our finance team on monthly payroll, projects and enquiries
• Support the full life-cycle of HR including onboarding, benefit administration, and departure
• Apply critical thinking to automate and reduce administrative tasks
• Take a lead role in the management, continued development, and integration of our HR system
• Produce data driven reports to inform and influence HR initiatives
• Lead and participate in projects where you’ll see the impact of your work
• Support internal resource groups to drive initiatives such as diversity and inclusion
• Create, update and maintain corporate policies that have a global lens with local application
• Ensure consistency of application of our HR policies and procedures

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of US and other Americas laws and practices is beneficial

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• 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