Enterprise Project Manager, Canonical
Enterprise open source solutions
Job no longer available
Enterprise open source solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Canonical's mission is to make open source software available to people everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- The successful Project Manager will have solid full life cycle project management experience in a software engineering and/or information technology field
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English
- Experience leading cross-cultural, remote and global project teams and customers
- Able to "make things happen" with a professional approach and effective negotiation techniques
- Agile expertise and Project Management certification
- If this sounds like you and you have experience in projects in one or more of the areas below, we'd love to hear from you:
- Large Enterprise IT programs
- Cloud and Public Cloud
- Organization Change Management
- ERP Implementation
- IPO Implementation
- Experience leading diverse, remote project teams
- Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects
- Experience hiring, managing teams and developing skills
- SW Engineering and IT Project Management Experience
- Adept at making things happen while managing risks successfully
- Experience in building collaborative internal and external partnerships
- Solid commercial skills; experience in dealing with RFP process and contract creation
- Effective negotiator, comfortable in a customer facing pre-sales role for complex projects
- Degree level education in Computer Science or STEM field, ideally also an MBA or similar qualification
- Able to travel 6-8 weeks a year, up to two weeks at a time, sometimes internationally
- Flexibility to work non-standard hours when required, in support of a worldwide sales and project team
What the job involves
- Canonical Project Managers are responsible for ensuring project success through owning, driving, communicating and respectfully engaging all stakeholders, valuing integrity and accountability
- Within a portfolio of projects with complex and changing software technologies, customer and partner satisfaction is only possible because of exceptional PMO Project Managers who know how to respect and engage all stakeholders
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Canonical originally started as a company to help distribute Ubuntu (an operating system based on Linux). It is now a leader in delivering open source to the world quickly, securely and cost effectively.
With a community of 200,000, Canonical publishes an operating system which runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Just some of its partners include Microsoft, HP, Dell, aws, and Intel.
The founder has highlighted that Canonical's biggest challenge has been that demand is bigger than the company’s ability to service it. Originally a not-for-profit, Canonical is now monetising and is planning to go public. It also announced its product Ubuntu has a comprehensive subscription version called Ubuntu Pro, likely to aid monetising efforts.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
18% female employees
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2013
$9.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $9.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Learning and personal professional development budget
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual leave
- Generous parental leave
- Priority Pass for travel
Company values
- Truly distributed: Exceptional, self-motivated, organised and passionate people deserve the freedom to live where they want. Our teams travel regularly to meet colleagues and customers.
- Best in class: We rate top for Linux security. We run more hosts, more workloads and more devices than anybody else, because we strive to do everything insightfully, properly, fairly, and openly
- Enterprise focused: The world is moving to Ubuntu – open source that's faster, cheaper and better. Empower engineers, secure precious data, share knowledge and lead the change
Company HQ
Southwark, London
Founders
Mark Shuttleworth
(CEO)Serial entrepreneur. Previously founded Thawte Consulting (sold to VeriSign for $575m)
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