Senior Project Manager

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Canonical

πŸ“Remote - Asia

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Summary

Join Canonical as a Senior Project Manager - Ubuntu Embedded Systems to coordinate and complete large complex customer-facing projects, overseeing all aspects of project delivery and acting as the primary delivery liaison between Canonical's engineering teams and customers.

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
  • PMP/PMI or PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification preferred
  • Ability to work non-standard work hours in support of a worldwide sales and project team
  • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

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
  • You will be responsible for managing multiple projects simultaneously

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

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