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Overview

They are looking for a passionate and dedicated Talent Development Specialist in South Africa, reporting into the HR Head.

About the role

The Talent Development Specialist will be responsible for the implementation of programs in line with the APAC MEA Development Framework consisting of strategies to support the efforts to attract and recruit the best talent, create an attractive and inclusive working experience, and grow careers through continuous development. This role will also drive skills development in line with the organisations skill plan and meet the legislative and INSETA requirements within the country.

Responsibilities

• Support local / regional and global performance, culture, talent, and training systems within the region
• Support and involvement in wider APAC MEA region initiatives.
• Coordinate and support in managing the talent reviews and succession planning sessions with the business units
• Implement Accelerated Development framework and offerings for our key talents
• Support Inclusion Diversity- and Gender initiatives
• Support Leadership Values Development for Leaders
• Serve as an internal consultant to business stakeholders
• Serve as the Skills Development Facilitator and manage the BBBEE audit process
• Engage in the identification of learning vendors, leadership consultants, and 3rd party providers in crafting and executing development solutions.
• Design and deliver high-quality training programs that enable existing staff to develop technical, behavioural, and commercial skills
• Responsible for training feedback evaluation and continuous improvement of training offerings throughout the year
• Coordinate providing coaches and mentors to high-potential talent program candidates and help managers utilize other development tools such as job assignments, job rotations, and mentoring
• Participate and contribute to our talent initiatives, attending regional calls and being involved in regional / global initiatives as part of the regional Talent Team.

Qualifications and profile

• We are looking for an outstanding individual with excellent stakeholder management capabilities, strong communication influencing skills, and the passion to drive changes
• Bachelor’s Degree with specialization in Human Resources Management and / or Psychology. Plus professional qualification in an adult learning or training discipline
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience in HR
• Experience as a Skills Development Facilitator
• Working knowledge of training and development, managing leadership programs, and graduate programs in an international organization.
• Strong project management, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with fluency in English, is a must
• Delivery focused with attention to detail, solid communication, and influencing skills.
• Able to work effectively in groups as well as independently.
• Self-motivated with a drive to deliver results.
• Demonstrated ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.

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Role Summary

Reporting to the Global Head of Talent Development, the Talent Development Specialist will support our global efforts to build our Talent Development service. Offering a full suite of complementary services across Assessment, Coaching, Leadership Development, and Outplacement, you will help build the business through service development, client support and engagement to ensure the highest quality delivery for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Global Head of Talent Development in modifying current talent development services to respond to client needs and proactively react to the external market
• Support the Global Head of Talent Development to deliver our talent development services to our clients in a timely manner and to the utmost quality
• Administer talent development services, such as psychometric analysis assessments to ensure timely delivery to our clients, promptly responding to related inquiries
• Meet with potential talent development service vendors, building and managing solid relationships for the effective delivery of our services
• Research current trends and market direction to ensure that our talent development services are current, following best practices, meeting market needs, and to enable us to maximise opportunities
• Support the Lead Engagement team by meeting with clients during the discovery stages of client engagement; and later support the Global Head of Talent Development by helping to nurture the potential client in follow-up meetings, including closing sales
• Draft talent development service proposals based on current solution offerings and terms of delivery
• Share talent development service updates and promote new initiatives with key members in the talent advisory team
• Promote our talent development services throughout Robert Walters, with a particular focus on client facing associates to develop our internal network and facilitate business opportunities
• Give feedback to the Global Head of Talent Development on the talent development services to inform future development and continuous improvements in our services
• Carry out internal administrative and external operational tasks related to our talent advisory and talent development services
• Respond to internal and external inquiries regarding our talent development services to support the Global Head of Talent Development and the Talent Advisory Lead Engagement Team
  
  

Qualifications And Key Competencies

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Behaviour or Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field (Master's degree preferred but not required).
• Strong understanding of the talent development sector including awareness of best practices, industry trends and methodologies
• Experience in creating various talent development solutions (some experience in delivering the solutions preferred but not required).
• Proven track record of managing client relationships and delivering successful projects.
• Ability to collaborate with internal teams and external partners effectively.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple tasks, ensuring timely delivery of services.
• Experience in client and vendor engagement, account management or similar role within the talent advisory or HR consulting sector
• An understanding of the recruitment sector and how talent advisory services align within the traditional recruitment service delivery model
• Ability to operate in an agile and responsive environment
• Capacity to operate with both timeliness and quality of delivery at the forefront
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills
  
  

Benefits

• A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
• A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you'll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
• Private medical insurance
• A fantastic training and development programme
• Volunteer time off
• The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
• Employee wellbeing through various programmes
• You'll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That's the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP
  
  

As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.

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As part of the People Shared Services that will provide excellent service and employee experience for our employees, the Talent Development Consultant’s primary responsibility is talent development operational implementation within skills development, learning design and delivery. The incumbent will ensure professional consultation with the business (relevant line managers and employees) focused on delivering best customer service in a continuously improving efficient and effective way that achieves Service Level Agreement standards.

As the Talent Development Consultant, your responsibilities will be:

• The delivery of talent development activities for skills development, learning design and delivery, by building relationships (internal; third parties) to ensure the execution of operational activities.
• Ensuring the end-to-end instructional design of all training requirements (management skills; competencies; technical; product; systems; projects; etc).
• Ensuring the end-to-end management of all SETA funded programmes; BBBEE scorecard improvements; programme completion and absorption; and detailed tracking of all SETA activities to best meet reporting requirements.
• Ensuring the end-to-end delivery of TFG funded learning and development interventions - internally or externally.
• Identify and manage potential risk related to all talent development activities.
• Continuous focus on identifying opportunities for improvement in talent development processes.
• Continuous focus on identifying risk to delivery and timeous escalation of any deviation to policy and company practice.
• Assist broader People Shared Services according to resource needs (valley periods, emergencies, projects).

To apply you need to have:

• HR Degree or relevant Qualification (essential).
• More than 5 years functional experience in Talent Development across the board (essential).
• Working understanding of Skills Development, Learning Design and Delivery.
• Registered as a Skills Development Facilitator.
• Proven experience in managing SETA funded programmes end to end, from grant applications, managing accreditation to managing the Claims process.
• Solid experience in Learning Design and Learning Delivery.
• Effective project management, processes and timelines and the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Passionate about the user experience / customer service.
• Planning and Organising Skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• A ‘can do’ attitude with high service delivery.
• Continuous improvement performance mindset.
• Understanding of related policies and legislation and Retail context.
• Understanding of Retail, Financial Services, etc. highly advantageous.
• Resilient in the face of obstacles.
• Ability to work in fast paced environments.

Preference will be given, but not limited to, candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act.

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Job Title: Talent Development Specialist Location: Johannesburg Florida Job Overview We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Talent Development Specialist to join our team. The Talent Development Specialist will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing talent development programs that support the professional growth and development of our employees. This individual will work closely with various departments to identify training needs, develop learning initiatives, and measure the effectiveness of training programs. The Talent Development Specialist will also provide coaching and support to employees at all levels to enhance their skills and competencies. Key Responsibilities Collaborate with department leaders to identify training needs and develop learning objectives that support organizational goals Design and deliver effective development programs using a variety of modalities, including instructor-led training, online courses, and webinars Evaluate the effectiveness of training programs through feedback surveys, metrics, and performance evaluations Provide one-on-one coaching to employees to help them develop their skills and reach their full potential Assist in the implementation of performance management processes, including goal setting, performance reviews, and career development planning Stay current on industry trends and best practices in talent development and recommend new ideas and initiatives to support employee growth Maintain accurate records of training activities and employee development plans Qualifications Bachelor's degree in human resources, Industrial and Organizational psychology or a related field 3+ years of experience in talent development, learning and development, or a related field Strong knowledge of adult learning theory and instructional design principles Excellent communication and presentation skills Proven ability to build relationships with employees at all levels of the organization Experience with learning management systems and other training technology tools Professional certification in talent development, coaching, or related field is a plus We are looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking individual who is passionate about helping employees grow and develop. If you are a strategic thinker with a strong understanding of talent development best practices, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. We reserve the right not to make an appointment to any advertised position. While preference is given to existing employees at all times, the choice made is purely on merit. Historically Disadvantaged Candidates and Black Female Candidates are encouraged and supported in the FSG team. While black female candidates will be given priority as per our transformation policy subject to the above criteria. Fidelity Services Group (Pty) Ltd supports global fair practice and business ethics on continuous development of our human capital as the key resource to our success in the markets in which we participate. Should you not be contacted regarding this position within 10 working days from the closing date, please regard your application as unsuccessful. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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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 1200+ 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 building a Talent Development function that is future focused and driven to define the future of the workplace, within a global, growing open source software company, pioneers in remote-first collaboration and employment.

This is an opportunity for a person with outstanding leadership, organisation and intellect, to build our Talent Development team to enhance our leadership and people management practices in our remote setting. We are now 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries. We would like to create a new team to focus on Talent Development - to deepen our insights and effectiveness as a remote-first and globally distributed organisation.

We know that being effective remotely requires discipline and good habits, and we would like to invest in the research needed to understand that, the training and policymaking which enables it, and the selection mechanisms that ensure consistency of behaviours. We'd like to understand what really makes a distributed, remote-first workplace work. We think we're pretty good at this, remote-first for almost 20 years, but we know there is a lot still to understand, and the frontier of possibility continues to move outward. We'd like to invest in research, analytics and tooling which raises the bar even further for remote collaboration, organisation and leadership. Most importantly though, we'd like to invest in training and multi directional communications to ensure that our leadership team is consistent in setting and maintaining expectations, driving desired team practice and behaviors, as well as expected management practices are effectively embedded across the company .

This role is the fourth remaining Lead role in our People function, which is a cross-disciplinary group of organisational psychologists, engineers, statistics / analytics experts, talent science and employee relations specialists. We are recruiting globally, and believe we are bringing in outstanding new colleagues in a way that is fearlessly global. Naturally, they come from a wide range of backgrounds, norms and experiences, and our goal in setting up the Talent Development team is simply to lead the leaders to a position of consistent clarity on who we are, how we roll, and how that changes over time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

The role entails

• Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program
• Develop, drive and embed effective programs of management and leadership development within our remote organisation
• Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate
• Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics
• Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning and career development.
• Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment
• Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists
• Take a data focused lens to understand trends to strategise and define career development frameworks
• Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget
  
  

What we are looking for in you

• An exceptional academic track record from High school and beyond
• Possess insight and experience on what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
• Demonstrated experience with strong insight and perspective on the key conditions and practices that create high performing teams
• Ability to create, lead and execute strategy, and drive change across a company
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategy with execution
• Analytical and problem solving skills, for data driven decision making with particular experience in measurement of the impact of development programmes
• Experience in people management and being accountable for a budget
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

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 recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. 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 Program & Wellness Platform
• 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 our 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Executive

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• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Human Resources
• Industries Software Development

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Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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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 1200+ 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 building a Talent Development function that is future focused and driven to define the future of the workplace, within a global, growing open source software company, pioneers in remote-first collaboration and employment.

This is an opportunity for a person with outstanding leadership, organisation and intellect, to build our Talent Development team to enhance our leadership and people management practices in our remote setting. We are now 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries. We would like to create a new team to focus on Talent Development - to deepen our insights and effectiveness as a remote-first and globally distributed organisation.

We know that being effective remotely requires discipline and good habits, and we would like to invest in the research needed to understand that, the training and policymaking which enables it, and the selection mechanisms that ensure consistency of behaviours. We'd like to understand what really makes a distributed, remote-first workplace work. We think we're pretty good at this, remote-first for almost 20 years, but we know there is a lot still to understand, and the frontier of possibility continues to move outward. We'd like to invest in research, analytics and tooling which raises the bar even further for remote collaboration, organisation and leadership. Most importantly though, we'd like to invest in training and multi directional communications to ensure that our leadership team is consistent in setting and maintaining expectations, driving desired team practice and behaviors, as well as expected management practices are effectively embedded across the company .

This role is the fourth remaining Lead role in our People function, which is a cross-disciplinary group of organisational psychologists, engineers, statistics / analytics experts, talent science and employee relations specialists. We are recruiting globally, and believe we are bringing in outstanding new colleagues in a way that is fearlessly global. Naturally, they come from a wide range of backgrounds, norms and experiences, and our goal in setting up the Talent Development team is simply to lead the leaders to a position of consistent clarity on who we are, how we roll, and how that changes over time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

The role entails

• Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program
• Develop, drive and embed effective programs of management and leadership development within our remote organisation
• Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate
• Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics
• Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning and career development.
• Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment
• Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists
• Take a data focused lens to understand trends to strategise and define career development frameworks
• Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget
  
  

What we are looking for in you

• An exceptional academic track record from High school and beyond
• Possess insight and experience on what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
• Demonstrated experience with strong insight and perspective on the key conditions and practices that create high performing teams
• Ability to create, lead and execute strategy, and drive change across a company
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategy with execution
• Analytical and problem solving skills, for data driven decision making with particular experience in measurement of the impact of development programmes
• Experience in people management and being accountable for a budget
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

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 recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. 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 Program & Wellness Platform
• 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 our 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Executive

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Human Resources
• Industries Software Development

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Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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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 1200+ 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 building a Talent Development function that is future focused and driven to define the future of the workplace, within a global, growing open source software company, pioneers in remote-first collaboration and employment.

This is an opportunity for a person with outstanding leadership, organisation and intellect, to build our Talent Development team to enhance our leadership and people management practices in our remote setting. We are now 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries. We would like to create a new team to focus on Talent Development - to deepen our insights and effectiveness as a remote-first and globally distributed organisation.

We know that being effective remotely requires discipline and good habits, and we would like to invest in the research needed to understand that, the training and policymaking which enables it, and the selection mechanisms that ensure consistency of behaviours. We'd like to understand what really makes a distributed, remote-first workplace work. We think we're pretty good at this, remote-first for almost 20 years, but we know there is a lot still to understand, and the frontier of possibility continues to move outward. We'd like to invest in research, analytics and tooling which raises the bar even further for remote collaboration, organisation and leadership. Most importantly though, we'd like to invest in training and multi directional communications to ensure that our leadership team is consistent in setting and maintaining expectations, driving desired team practice and behaviors, as well as expected management practices are effectively embedded across the company .

This role is the fourth remaining Lead role in our People function, which is a cross-disciplinary group of organisational psychologists, engineers, statistics / analytics experts, talent science and employee relations specialists. We are recruiting globally, and believe we are bringing in outstanding new colleagues in a way that is fearlessly global. Naturally, they come from a wide range of backgrounds, norms and experiences, and our goal in setting up the Talent Development team is simply to lead the leaders to a position of consistent clarity on who we are, how we roll, and how that changes over time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

The role entails

• Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program
• Develop, drive and embed effective programs of management and leadership development within our remote organisation
• Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate
• Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics
• Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning and career development.
• Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment
• Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists
• Take a data focused lens to understand trends to strategise and define career development frameworks
• Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget
  
  

What we are looking for in you

• An exceptional academic track record from High school and beyond
• Possess insight and experience on what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
• Demonstrated experience with strong insight and perspective on the key conditions and practices that create high performing teams
• Ability to create, lead and execute strategy, and drive change across a company
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategy with execution
• Analytical and problem solving skills, for data driven decision making with particular experience in measurement of the impact of development programmes
• Experience in people management and being accountable for a budget
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

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 recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. 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 Program & Wellness Platform
• 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 our 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Executive

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Human Resources
• Industries Software Development

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