Enterprise Project Manager

The role of a Enterprise Project Manager at Canonical

Canonical’s mission is to streamline and accelerate the adoption of open source across the entire global enterprise technology market. Our customers embrace the Canonical approach to open source for complex projects on bare metal on the cloud and at the edge.

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 Project Managers who know how to respect and engage all stakeholders.

What we are looking for in you

The successful Project Manager will have solid IT project management experience in a software engineering and/or information technology field excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and experience leading cross-cultural remote and global project teams and customers. You will be able to 'make things happen' with a professional approach and effective negotiation techniques. You have Agile expertise and Project Management certification.

If this sounds like you and you have experience in the areas below we'd love to hear from you:

• Enterprise IT Programs

• Process Improvement

• Software Engineering Project Management

Additional skills that you might also bring

• Leading diverse remote project teams

• Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects

• Hiring managing teams and helping to develop team skills

• SW engineering and IT project management

• Driving project success while managing risks

• Experience in building collaborative internal and external partnerships

• Solid commercial skills; experience in dealing with contracts

• Effective negotiator comfortable in a customer facing roles 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 we offer you

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. 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.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person

• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2000 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

• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events

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 on a daily basis. 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. Canonical has been a remote-first company 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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