Senior Organisational Development Practitioner - Canonical

About the Role

As a Senior Organisational Development Practitioner at Canonical, you will set the bar for coaching and organisational development. You will coach leaders to achieve management excellence, diagnose organisational health, and drive plans to improve leadership effectiveness. This is a high-impact, hands-on role requiring you to operate both centrally and embedded within engineering and commercial teams.

What You Will Deliver

Raising Individual Leaders

• Coach leaders to meet a clear standard of management excellence.
• Facilitate difficult conversations and ensure 360-degree feedback leads to actionable commitments.

Lifting Organisations

• Perform sharp, initial diagnoses of organisational health and own the resulting improvement plans.
• Contribute to defining and implementing new ways of working across our globally distributed company.

Building the Function

• Mentor and develop practitioners in the field to improve their craft.
• Define what 'exceptional' looks like at Canonical and hold the practice to those standards.
• Refine management-excellence frameworks based on field insights.

What We Are Looking For

• Expertise: Deep, hands-on coaching and OD experience with real leaders and teams.
• Track Record: Proven ability to measurably change leader behavior.
• Credibility: Ability to influence and earn the respect of directors quickly.
• Autonomy: Effectiveness in operating within an organisation without formal authority.
• Philosophy: A clear, honest approach to development and talent fit.
• Communication: Exceptional written and spoken English.
• Education: An exceptional academic track record.
• Travel: Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Management consulting background.
• Experience coaching within fast-moving, technical, distributed organisations.
• Experience building competency or development frameworks.
• Workshop design and facilitation skills (in-person and online).

What We Offer

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints.
• Annual compensation reviews and performance-driven bonuses.
• USD 2,000 annual personal learning and development budget.
• Comprehensive benefits including holiday leave, parental leave, and an Employee Assistance Programme.
• Travel opportunities to meet colleagues globally.