Senior Project Manager - Ubuntu Embedded Systems
Canonical
Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China +18 moreremotePosted 17 days ago
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Key highlights
- Remote role based in APAC region
- Project manager for Ubuntu Embedded Systems/Delivery
- Requires experience with cross-cultural, multi-continent project resources (Asia, Europe, Americas)
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- PMP/PMI or PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification preferred
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets, with Ubuntu widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. This role is a high-profile project management position within Canonical's Devices business, responsible for coordinating and completing large complex customer-facing projects involving the delivery of Ubuntu images on diverse devices ranging from robots and edge gateways to PCs and automotive systems. The role requires building and maintaining working relationships with engineering teams, customers, silicon vendors, OEMs, ODMs, IHVs, and other Canonical departments. This is a remote role based in the APAC region.
Responsibilities
- Managing projects through their complete life cycle and ensuring that the overall goals for both Canonical and the client are met
- Successfully delivering engineering professional services for assigned projects
- Working with engineering teams on custom board enablement and delivery of Ubuntu images to the customers
- Assisting in the development of project statements of work
- Drafting and maintaining project-specific schedules/project plans
- Obtaining client agreement to the project schedule and agreed-upon work items
- Ensuring projects are delivered within the time/resources/scope expectations
- Managing project risk mitigation and plans
- Driving technical issues to reach desired delivery outcomes
- Maintaining daily and weekly communication with the client and all internal stakeholders
- Managing delivery schedule of critical third-party deliverables for the project
- Keeping management informed of the status of assigned projects
- Identify custom engineering requests that are not part of an existing business contract
- Advocating for the appropriate technologies from Canonical's product portfolio to customers
- Supporting different time zones and work non-traditional hours as required to support the assigned projects
- Working with engineering teams on custom board enablement and delivery of Ubuntu images to the customers
Requirements
- Solid project management experience in delivering engineering services to customers managing software development teams and field engineers
- Extensive experience successfully managing projects with cross-cultural and multi-continent internal and external project resources, preferably with resources in Asia, Europe, and the Americas
- Educational degree preferably in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math
- Good knowledge of Linux and the wider Open Source Software community, and understanding of computer architecture
- Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, in English
- Strong leader and problem solver with extensive experience building successful internal and external partnerships and effective working relationships with demanding project sponsors in complex organizational environments
- Ability to work non-standard work hours in support of a worldwide sales and project team
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Nice to have
- PMP/PMI or PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification preferred
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
Additional details
- The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Location: This role will be based remotely in the APAC region
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution
- 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
- Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004
- 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. 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
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