HR Generalist - EMEA

July 15

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Canonical

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Open Source • Cloud • AI

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open-source operating system, which provides fast, modern, and secure Linux solutions for desktops, servers, and cloud environments. They offer a comprehensive set of products and services, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, cloud solutions such as OpenStack, and tools for managing containerized applications with Kubernetes. Canonical focuses on making open-source technology reliable and accessible across various industries, from IoT and AI to enterprise infrastructure.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

📋 Description

• 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 EMEA location (UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain). • 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. • Act as a system expert and advocate for the global HR team. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university • Relevant professional qualification and certifications. • Excellent practical insights into German, UK and/or French HR practices and employment laws. • Knowledge of other EMEA laws and practices is beneficial. • Self-directed, organised problem solver with the ability to prioritise and meet goals and deadlines. • Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion, sound judgement, tact and diplomacy in all communications. • Fearless and principled approach to professional interactions at every level of the business with commitment to confidentiality of sensitive information. • Willingness and ability to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events, with at least one trip of two full working weeks.

🏖️ 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.