Project Manager - Ubuntu Embedded Systems
Job description
Project Manager for Canonical's Devices business, responsible for coordinating and completing large complex customer-facing projects delivering Ubuntu images on devices ranging from robots and edge gateways to PCs and automotive systems. Acts as the primary delivery liaison between Canonical's engineering teams and customers.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · APAC region
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Managing projects through their complete life cycle and ensuring that the overall goals for both Canonical and the client are met
- Successfully delivering engineering professional services for assigned projects
- Working with engineering teams on custom board enablement and delivery of Ubuntu images to the customers
- Assisting in the development of project statements of work
- Drafting and maintaining project-specific schedules/project plans
- Obtaining client agreement to the project schedule and agreed-upon work items
- Ensuring projects are delivered within the time/resources/scope expectations
- Managing project risk mitigation and plans
- Driving technical issues to reach desired delivery outcomes
- Maintaining daily and weekly communication with the client and all internal stakeholders
- Managing delivery schedule of critical third-party deliverables for the project
- Keeping management informed of the status of assigned projects
- Identify custom engineering requests that are not part of an existing business contract
- Advocating for the appropriate technologies from Canonical's product portfolio to customers
- Supporting different time zones and work non-traditional hours as required to support the assigned projects
What we're looking for
- 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
- 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
Nice to have
- PMP/PMI or PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification preferred
Your team
Devices business
Team delivering Ubuntu images on a wide variety of devices ranging from robots, edge gateways, and IoT devices to PCs and automotive systems
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
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
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 enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
Changing the world of software as the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office-based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004
Partners & customers
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background