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Remote
Mid Level
Full Time
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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
What You'll Do
- •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
- •Maintain 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
- •Identifying custom engineering requests that are not part of an existing business contract
- •Advocating 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
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
About Canonical
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, delivers trusted open source for everyone and provides security, support and services to enterprises.
London, UK
1000 - 5000
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