Enterprise Project Manager
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Globally remote role
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline required
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- Experience in Enterprise IT Programs and Software Engineering Project Management required
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, notably Ubuntu, serving global enterprise markets in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing, pioneering global distributed collaboration with over 1200 colleagues in 75+ countries. Canonical is hiring an Enterprise Project Manager to streamline and accelerate the adoption of open source across the global enterprise technology market. The role is responsible for ensuring project success through owning, driving, communicating, and respectfully engaging all stakeholders, valuing integrity and accountability within a portfolio of projects featuring complex and changing software technologies.
Responsibilities
- 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 working with all key stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes
- Conducting regular status meetings and business reviews with customers and providing direction when needed
- Managing the delivery schedule of critical third party deliverables for the project
- Advocating to customers the appropriate technologies from Canonical's portfolio
- Driving project success while managing risks
Requirements
- Experience in Enterprise IT Programs, Process Improvement, and Software Engineering Project Management
- 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
- Deep understanding of Linux, Open Source, and Cloud Technologies
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally
Nice to have
- Project Management Certification, preferably PMP or equivalent certification
- Agile Project Management certification, preferably Scrum Master or equivalent certification
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
- Location: This is a Globally remote role.
- 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.
- We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Originally posted on Himalayas