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Product Manager - Cloud
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 day ago
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Key highlights
- Location: Remotely in the EMEA region
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Role overview
Canonical is seeking a Product Manager for Cloud Native to lead commercial strategy and marketing leadership for product areas including Juju, identity management, and observability. This is a remote role based in the EMEA region within a founder-led, profitable, and growing company that pioneered global distributed collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead the lifecycle of the product development by reviewing the priorities and goals for the products you are responsible for.
- Work closely with the engineering leads to oversee the product development process
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to address common challenges across projects, to align on priorities, to make informed decisions, and to keep business execution on track
- Conduct market research, analyse industry trends, and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities, and to ensure alignment with Canonical's overall vision
- Develop your team through coaching, mentoring and training
- Establish KPIs for project status reporting and communicate it across Canonical
- Drive execution excellence through continuous feedback and improvement
- Contribute to the development of strategies to create and maintain high performing teams
- Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities, by reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings
Requirements
- Seasoned product management experience in technical domains related to the usage and/or the management of open source software in the cloud native landscape
- Experiences designing or managing software operations for large scale distributed systems
- Good understanding of cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker containers.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the common enterprise security and compliance requirements in the area of software operations
- Proven ability to lead technical teams and drive their execution to excellence
- Passion to write about technologies and experience in the area of developer marketing
- A strong work ethic, and personal interests aligned with the open source philosophy
- Excellent communications skills in English, both verbal and written
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Nice to have
- Experience with CNCF projects, identity or observability systems is a plus.
- Demonstrate an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and be passionate about the future of technology
- Have a strong sense of ownership. All parts of the product's success and your team's success are your responsibility.
- Be a problem solver, have the ability to think out of the box, and demonstrate visionary leadership
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- 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 from your team and others
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
- Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
- 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, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
- Canonical’s product management team are technologists who have a passion for delivering products and solutions that help shape market demands while elevating open source software everywhere.
- This is an application track for a product management position at Canonical on Cloud Native.
- We believe that open source is transforming the way that enterprises solve their business needs.
- Although open source has been around for thirty years, it is only now fundamental to every corner of the software landscape.
- Going forward we believe open source will have an even bigger impact as it moves into specialised vertical markets.
- Our goal is to make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development.
- We strive to be the provider of ‘most software to most companies’, starting with Ubuntu but expanding to cover every class of application on every class of compute.
- To deliver on that ambition, we select product managers for their intellect and strong drive to advance the open source community.
- Together, we aim to improve open source quality, outreach, and impact.
- Our product managers set the vision and the direction to ensure teams deliver the right products in the right markets at the right time.
- They push the boundaries of the technology landscape to identify and deliver products into new and existing market opportunities.
- Juju is an open source orchestration engine for software operators that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure using charms.
- Juju is currently used by our clients, partners, and the community to orchestrate both small and enterprise-scale infrastructure and application deployments across a variety of substrates.
- This role is responsible for the commercial strategy and marketing leadership of one of our cloud native operations product areas, including
- Juju - the open source orchestration engine for software operators that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure using charms
- Identity management - defining the way authentication, authorisation and identity governance controls are applied across Ubuntu One SSO and the other Canonical products
- Observability - outlining the strategy for the way Canonical products and charms perform tracing and are able to discern the underlying system health
- Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. You will be expected to be based in this region.
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
- We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
- We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.
- We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- We’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- About Canonical
- Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source.
- As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.
- We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company.
- We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.
- Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.
- Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
- We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination.
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.
- Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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