Junior Project Manager
Level inferred from job title
Job description
A Junior Project Manager role at Canonical, responsible for helping deliver software projects on schedule, scope, cost and budget while engaging customers and stakeholders. Aimed at early-career candidates with a technical academic background and leadership potential.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · North America, Latin America, EMEA
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Ensuring programs and projects are delivered within the schedule, scope, cost, budget and resources expectations
- Supporting in identifying key technical and project risks and issues and actively put mitigating actions in place
- Maintaining strong customer focus and work with all key stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes
- Assisting in conducting regular status meetings and business reviews with customers
- Supporting with the delivery schedule of critical third party deliverables for the project
- Advocating to customers the appropriate technologies from Canonical's portfolio
What we're looking for
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Solid academic achievement in science, software engineering and/or information technology field
- Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives
- The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation
- Thoughtfulness and self-motivation
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Solution oriented mindset with a professional approach and effective negotiation techniques
- Demonstrated leadership skills in your school or university life
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
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
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
The company that publishes Ubuntu
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few office based roles.
Mission
To streamline and accelerate the adoption of open source across the entire global enterprise technology market.
Key facts
- 1000+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Integrity
- Accountability
- Excellence
- Diversity