Canonical is hiring a
Manager, Embedded Devices

Summary

The job is for a Manager, Embedded Devices Project Management at Canonical. The role involves managing a team of project managers, driving delivery of Ubuntu on various hardware for customer projects, and providing active leadership across all aspects of software and hardware enablement. The ideal candidate should have experience leading diverse, remote teams in a technology company, strong software engineering project management experience, and knowledge of Linux and the Open Source Software community.

Requirements

• Experience leading diverse, remote project teams in a technology company
• Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects
• Experience 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 or PRINCE2 practitioner certification

Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse and distributed team of project managers including performance management and mentoring
• Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities
• 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 Agile project management methodologies is an advantage
• 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