Canonical is hiring a
Senior Project Manager in Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Senior Project Manager - Ubuntu Embedded Systems at Canonical. The role involves managing complex customer-facing projects, overseeing project delivery, and acting as the primary liaison between Canonical's engineering teams and customers. The position requires solid project management experience, extensive cross-cultural experience, knowledge of Linux and Open Source Software, excellent communication skills, and a PMP/PMI or PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification is preferred.

Requirements

• Solid project management experience in delivering engineering services to customers managing software development teams and field engineers
• Extensive experience successfully managing projects with cross-cultural and multi-continent internal and external project resources, preferably with resources in Asia, Europe, and the Americas
• Educational degree preferably in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math
• Good knowledge of Linux and the wider Open Source Software community, and understanding of computer architecture
• Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, in English
• Strong leader and problem solver with extensive experience building successful internal and external partnerships and effective working relationships with demanding project sponsors in complex organizational environments

Responsibilities

• Manage projects through their complete life cycle and ensure that the overall goals for both Canonical and the client are met
• Successfully deliver engineering professional services for assigned projects
• Work with engineering teams on custom board enablement and delivery of Ubuntu images to the customers
• Assist in the development of project statements of work
• Draft and maintain project-specific schedules/project plans
• Obtain client agreement to the project schedule and agreed-upon work items
• Ensure projects are delivered within the time/resources/scope expectations
• Manage project risk mitigation and plans
• Drive technical issues to reach desired delivery outcomes
• Maintain daily and weekly communication with the client and all internal stakeholders
• Manage delivery schedule of critical third-party deliverables for the project
• Keep management informed of the status of assigned projects
• Identify custom engineering requests that are not part of an existing business contract
• Advocate the appropriate technologies from Canonical's product portfolio to customers
• Support different time zones and work non-traditional hours as required to support the assigned projects
• Be responsible for managing multiple projects simultaneously

Preferred Qualifications

PMP/PMI or PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification

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