Junior Project Manager
Canonical
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile +15 moreremotePosted 1 month ago
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Key highlights
- Junior level experience
- Distributed work environment
- USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject
- International travel twice a year
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, publishing Ubuntu, which is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is founder led, profitable, and growing, with a global distributed collaboration model of 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries. We are hiring a Junior Project Manager to streamline and accelerate the adoption of open source across the global enterprise technology market. Project Managers are responsible for ensuring project success through owning, driving, communicating and respectfully engaging all stakeholders, valuing integrity and accountability.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- Solid academic achievement in science, software engineering and/or information technology field
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English
- Solution oriented mindset
- Professional approach and effective negotiation techniques
- Demonstrated leadership skills in your school or university life
- 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
- 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
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
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
- 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
Additional details
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide
- Compensation is revisited annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure outstanding performance is recognized
- Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
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