[Hiring] Organisational Development Associate @Canonical

Role Description

The Organisational Development Associate is where our most driven early-career people begin. From day one you work with real teams and take on real change, coached hard by senior practitioners on a fast path toward running this work yourself. This is not a support or back-office role, and it is not generalist HR. We hire for potential, drive and coachability over a polished CV, and we back the people we hire to move fast.

Location: These are remote based positions, available across EMEA and the Americas.

The role entails:

• Being embedded inside a real team: see how it works day to day, and surface what is and isn't working.
• Running the diagnostics on a team's health and management effectiveness (engagement, 360, direct feedback), and turning the evidence into a clear, honest read.
• Owning an improvement end to end: a concrete change to how a team works that you design, drive and land, with a senior practitioner alongside you.
• Supporting managers in delivering effective 360 performance feedback to individuals and helping them turn it into two or three real commitments they follow through on.
• Helping build the playbook: the standards, tools and shared language the whole function runs on. You are building the system others use, not producing filler.
• Learning coaching and organisational development directly from senior practitioners, on a fast, visible path to running this work yourself.

Qualifications

• A track record of leading and organising early.
• A deliberate pull toward developing people and organisations.
• Drive and eagerness to learn.
• The presence to sit across from experienced people and talk about change with confidence.
• An exceptional academic track record from high school and university.
• Up to around two years of experience since graduating.
• Business level written and spoken English.
• Organised, accurate, confident, authentic, results-oriented, and enthusiastic.
• Sincere personal motivation aligned with our mission.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Requirements

• Precise, taking care to deliver correctness and clarity.
• Reliable, delivering high quality work that builds trust and confidence.
• Accessible, collaborating to build products and systems that are usable.
• Adroit, blending enthusiasm, knowledge, adaptability, style and character.

Nice-to-have skills

• Any exposure to people, organisational, coaching or consulting work, through study, an internship or a first job.
• A genuine interest in the craft of management and organisations, not just the subject matter.
• Comfort working with data.

Benefits

• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
• Annual compensation review.
• Performance-driven annual bonus.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• 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.