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    Cloud Alliances Business Development Lead

    Canonical
    Home Based - Americas•Home Based - Worldwide
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
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    Requirements

    • •Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
    • •Bachelor's degree in science, technology and/or engineering
    • •Experience in software development and system architecture
    • •Customer-facing experience in software engineering, product management, business development, technology strategy or similar functions
    • •Excellent communication skills across all levels of stakeholders - individual contributors to the C-suite; ability to grasp complex material and synthesize key points
    • •Ability to think and work at both strategic and tactical levels
    • •Disciplined and self motivated for a remote-first workplace environment

    What You'll Do

    • •Collaborating with product, engineering, alliance and marketing teams at a cloud partner to align on open-source strategies
    • •Capturing partner requirements, evaluating gaps, and identifying Canonical opportunities
    • •Coordinating with marketing and product teams on messaging, content creation, and launch plans
    • •Creating partner- and customer-facing materials like reference architectures, joint blueprints, webinars, presentations, videos, and white papers
    • •Driving Ubuntu adoption within targeted alliance accounts, advocating its benefits to stakeholders and working with partners on enablement training for their development, delivery, support and commercial teams
    • •Influencing Cloud customers to build with Canonical technology
    • •Up to 25% travel, including internationally, for internal conferences and to drive partnerships in person

    Nice to Have

    • •Experience with open source software and open source business models
    • •Team leadership, product management or program management experience
    • •Understanding of marketing and go-to-market strategy
    • •Sector-specific experience in finance, telecommunications, automotive, or public sectors
    • •Working knowledge of independent hardware and software vendor go-to-market motions
    • •Post-graduate degree in science, technology or engineering field

    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.

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