Regional HR Manager

Summary

Join Canonical as Regional HR Manager to support the APAC region with precise, compliant, and scalable HR operations, advising on HR issues across employee life-cycle, and partnering with senior leadership.

Requirements

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• HR experience leading initiatives across regions within a technology business
• People management experience
• Experience in business partnering with senior stakeholders
• A good balance between leading and executing, in this role you will need to be hands-on involved in the daily HR routines, too
• Experience in working in a remote first organization
• Able to leverage data to make informed decisions
• Knowledge and practical implementation of HR practices and employment law across APAC
• Fluent in business English (written and spoken)
• Self motivated, organized, accurate, confident, authentic, results-orientated, open-minded, enthusiastic and energetic
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale Canonical’s regional HR team (1-4 direct reports, depending on region)
• Deliver precise and compliant HR operations in a timely manner and with the highest degree of accuracy
• Interact closely with Talent Science and Workplace Engineering teams and create tight-knit processes across all HR regions
• Be accountable for HR processes such as talent development, succession planning, performance assessments, onboarding, culture and engagement initiatives that drive high performing teams
• Work with senior managers across the business on performance management, organizational design, employee engagement, rewards- and workforce planning
• Coach and advise people managers on the full spectrum of employee relations issues across multiple countries
• Partner with people managers to support the delivery of appropriate training and development programs
• Establish a trusted partnership with the business in your region
• Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Design new policies and deliver on business-critical HR related projects globally
• Present at Canonical events to articulate Canonical’s HR practices

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