Manager, People Analytics

Canonical
EMEA
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Data Analytics & Business IntelligenceSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Problem-solving","Communication","Collaboration"]

Lead and mentor a product-oriented people analytics squad that turns workforce data into “People Products.” Drive product ownership across people science, translating HR questions into research objectives and delivering predictive and prescriptive insights (e.g., attrition risk). Serve as a translator for complex data models, advancing AI agent capabilities while ensuring the People Data Stack remains secure and GDPR/privacy compliant. Shape open source AI/data strategy and improve the “effectiveness at work” experience.

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Manager, People Analytics

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Job Summary

Lead and mentor a product-oriented people analytics squad that turns workforce data into “People Products.” Drive product ownership across people science, translating HR questions into research objectives and delivering predictive and prescriptive insights (e.g., attrition risk). Serve as a translator for complex data models, advancing AI agent capabilities while ensuring the People Data Stack remains secure and GDPR/privacy compliant. Shape open source AI/data strategy and improve the “effectiveness at work” experience.
Location: EMEA
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and mentor a specialized squad of People Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and UX Designers as a product squad.
  • •Own people science products by bridging HR context and engineering implementation to ensure engineers understand human behavioral intent.
  • •Deliver predictive and prescriptive insights that move beyond descriptive workforce metrics.
  • •Translate complex data models into compelling narratives and lead AI agent development that surfaces insights to managers in real time.
  • •Ensure the People Data Stack is secure, GDPR/privacy-compliant, and acts as a single source of truth across People offerings.
Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Learning BudgetAnnual LeaveMaternity LeavePaternity LeaveWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •Background in data science, mathematics, or engineering with advanced statistics, data wrangling, and databases (SQL) or software engineering.
  • •Strength coding/scripting in languages such as Python, R, and JavaScript, plus visualization tools (e.g., Superset, Tableau) and automation.
  • •Ability to translate business questions into research objectives and identify the right methodology to execute research and synthesize findings.
  • •Proven ability to lead and drive others against well planned roadmaps with a mentor/coaching mindset.
  • •Business level written and spoken English and willingness to examine the status quo and stay resilient.
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipProblem-solvingCommunicationCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonRJavaScriptSQLSupersetTableauAirbyteRangerTemporalTrinoDockerKubernetesAI Agents

Company Brief

Canonical
Develops and maintains Ubuntu, a leading open-source Linux distribution, and provides cloud, IoT, and enterprise support, tooling, and services to enable deployment, management, and security of infrastructure and applications.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Bootstrapped
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2004
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