Product Manager, Cloud Native

Summary

Join Canonical's product management team as a Cloud Native Product Manager and lead the commercial strategy and marketing for key product areas like Juju, identity management, and observability. This remote EMEA-based role requires seasoned product management experience in cloud-native open-source software, expertise in cloud-native technologies, and proven leadership skills. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, conduct market research, develop your team, and contribute to sales success. Canonical offers a competitive compensation package, including a performance-driven bonus, a personal learning and development budget, annual compensation review, and various other benefits. The company embraces a distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints.

Requirements

• Seasoned product management experience in technical domains related to the usage and/or the management of open source software in the cloud native landscape
• Experiences designing or managing software operations for large scale distributed systems
• Good understanding of cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker containers
• Comprehensive knowledge of the common enterprise security and compliance requirements in the area of software operations
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and drive their execution to excellence
• Passion to write about technologies and experience in the area of developer marketing
• A strong work ethic, and personal interests aligned with the open source philosophy
• Excellent communications skills in English, both verbal and written
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Responsibilities

• Lead the lifecycle of the product development by reviewing the priorities and goals for the products you are responsible for
• Work closely with the engineering leads to oversee the product development process
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to address common challenges across projects, to align on priorities, to make informed decisions, and to keep business execution on track
• Conduct market research, analyse industry trends, and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities, and to ensure alignment with Canonical's overall vision
• Develop your team through coaching, mentoring and training
• Establish KPIs for project status reporting and communicate it across Canonical
• Drive execution excellence through continuous feedback and improvement
• Contribute to the development of strategies to create and maintain high performing teams
• Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities, by reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CNCF projects, identity or observability systems is a plus
• Demonstrate an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and be passionate about the future of technology
• Have a strong sense of ownership. All parts of the product's success and your team's success are your responsibility
• Be a problem solver, have the ability to think out of the box, and demonstrate visionary leadership

Benefits

• 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 recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission
• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• 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 from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events