Canonical is hiring a
Enterprise Project Manager in Worldwide

Summary

The job involves managing complex projects in a global enterprise technology market, ensuring project success through effective communication and stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate has solid IT project management experience, excellent communication skills, Agile expertise, and Project Management certification. Additional skills like leading diverse teams, cross-cultural experience, and commercial skills are beneficial. Canonical offers a competitive compensation package, learning opportunities, travel benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• Solid IT project management experience in a software engineering and/or information technology field
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English
• Experience leading cross-cultural, remote, and global project teams and customers
• Agile expertise and Project Management certification
• Able to travel 6-8 weeks a year, up to two weeks at a time, sometimes internationally
• Flexibility to work non-standard hours when required, in support of a worldwide sales and project team

Responsibilities

Ensure project success through owning, driving, communicating, and engaging all stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Leading diverse, remote project teams
• Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects
• Hiring, managing teams, and helping to develop team skills
• SW engineering and IT project management
• Driving project success while managing risks
• Experience in building collaborative internal and external partnerships
• Solid commercial skills; experience in dealing with contracts
• Effective negotiator, comfortable in a customer facing roles for complex projects
• Degree level education in Computer Science or STEM field, ideally also an MBA or similar qualification

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Learning opportunities (personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year)
• Travel benefits (Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events)
• Flexible work environment (Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person)
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme