Regional HR Manager

2 Months ago • All levels • Human Resource

Job Summary

Job Description

Canonical is seeking a Regional HR Manager for the APAC region. This role involves leading the regional HR team, ensuring precise and compliant HR operations, and partnering with senior leadership. The manager will be responsible for HR processes like talent development, performance assessments, and employee engagement. They will also advise on employee relations, support training programs, and drive diversity and inclusion initiatives. The role demands a good balance of leadership and hands-on involvement in daily HR routines, leveraging data for informed decisions, and a solid understanding of HR practices and employment law across APAC. The role requires leading and scaling Canonical’s regional HR team, delivering compliant HR operations, interacting with Talent Science and Workplace Engineering teams, and partnering with people managers to support the delivery of appropriate training and development programs.
Must have:
  • HR experience leading initiatives across regions within a technology business
  • People management experience
  • Experience in business partnering with senior stakeholders
  • Experience working in a remote-first organization
  • Knowledge of HR practices and employment law across APAC
  • Fluent in business English (written and spoken)
Good to have:
  • Experience with immigration policies and mobility processes
  • Professional HR qualification (CIPD/SHRM or other)
  • Facilitation skills
Perks:
  • 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

Job Details

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring a Regional HR Manager at Canonical to support our APAC region. 

With 1,100+ colleagues across 75​ ​countries, we require an HR function that thinks and acts globally.​ We're looking for a regional lead that will report into our Global Head of HR who can help build our company as we go through continued growth plans. It's an exciting time to join with the opportunity to help shape and create an HR function for the future. You will lead the APAC team of HR professionals to provide precise, compliant and scalable HR operations to the business, advise and execute on HR issues across the whole employee life-cycle, and partner with senior leadership in your region. You will have an analytical approach, a keen eye for detail and the ability to interpret data trends and themes.

The role entails the individual to:

  • 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

What we are looking for in you

  • 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

Nice-to-have skills

  • Experience with immigration policies and mobility processes
  • Professional HR qualification (CIPD/SHRM or other) 
  • Facilitation skills

What we offer colleagues

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

  • 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

About Canonical

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.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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