Public Cloud Project Manager
Job description
Public Cloud Project Manager providing account leadership and project management for Canonical's key Tier 1 Enterprise Public Cloud accounts. The role manages multiple blue-chip projects simultaneously, shaping SoWs and managing projects through their life-cycles.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Americas region
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Ensuring programs and projects are delivered within the schedule, scope, cost, budget and resources expectations
- 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
- Conducting regular status meetings and business reviews with customers and provide direction when needed
- Managing the delivery schedule of critical third party deliverables for the project
- Identifying and managing cross organization engineering requests that are not part of existing business contracts
- Advocating to customers the appropriate technologies from Canonical's portfolio
- Shaping the SoW or similar agreements with clients and managing projects through their life-cycles
What we're looking for
- Proven background in IT Cloud industry as a software development project manager, IT program/project manager, agile software manager or scrum master
- Deep understanding of Linux, Open source, and the Public Cloud space
- Software engineering experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Experience leading cross-cultural, remote and global project teams and customers
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills
- Strong communication skills
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline
- Project Management Certification, preferably PMP or equivalent certification
- Agile Project Management certification, preferably Scrum Master or equivalent certification
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally
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 leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
Canonical publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
Mission
To be at the forefront of the global move to open source
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office-based roles
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004
What they value
- Excellence
- Fairness globally
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background