Canonical is hiring a
Manager

Summary

The job is for a Manager position in the Ubuntu Enablement Project Management team at Canonical. The role involves leading a diverse team, promoting best practices, driving resource capacity planning, establishing KPIs, collaborating with cross-team leads, and serving as a trusted adviser to company leadership. The candidate should have experience leading remote project teams, strong software engineering project management skills, and be comfortable in a customer-facing pre-sales role for complex projects.

Requirements

• Experience leading diverse, remote project teams in a technology company
• Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects
• Experience with hiring, managing teams, and developing skills
• Strong software engineering project management experience
• Strong delivery of commercial technology projects to device manufacturers
• Adept at making things happen while successfully managing risks
• Experience building collaborative internal and external partnerships
• Solid commercial skills; experience in dealing with SoW creation
• Effective negotiator, comfortable in a customer-facing pre-sales role for complex projects
• Able to travel 4-6 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 teams
• PMP/PMI, PRINCE2 or Agile certification

Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse and distributed team of project managers including performance management and mentoring
• Promote industry-recognized, best-in-class project management practices
• Lead the evaluation of project management tools, systems, and processes
• Drive resource capacity planning for the team, identifying gaps and actively looking for solutions to ensure efficient and effective team allocation utilization
• Drive continuous improvement and implementation of best practices
• Establish KPIs for project status reporting across Canonical
• Collaborate with cross-team leads to address common challenges across projects
• Drive execution excellence through continuous feedback and improvement
• Review customer feedback and participate in customer meetings
• Develop your project management team through coaching, mentoring, and training
• Serve as the first customer escalation point on critical projects
• Act as a trusted adviser to company leadership, collaborating with stakeholders to enable customer success

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the enablement of hardware and devices under Linux and delivery of commercial software technology projects to device manufacturers
• Knowledge of Linux and the wider the Open Source Software community
• Familiarity with a wide range of technology such as embedded device/IoT software development
• Ideally a Masters degree, MBA, or similar qualification
• Practical experience in automotive, including functional safety, embedded systems, and related software trends
• Automotive industry standards experience (ISO/IEC 27001, TISAX, ASPICE, etc.)

Benefits

• 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