Manager - Product Manager
Job description
A general application track for product management positions at Canonical, including team-lead/manager roles across various product domains. The role leads a team of product managers and drives product strategy and the product development lifecycle for open source software products.
This is an application to a talent network
You are applying to be considered for upcoming projects. It is not a single open position, and work is offered as projects arise.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA time zone
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Lead the product development lifecycle, reviewing the priorities and goals for your product
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales
- Address common challenges across projects, align on priorities, enable informed decisions, and keep business execution on track
- Conduct market research, analyse industry trends, and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities
- Communicate your product vision, status updates, and key decisions to ensure alignment and manage expectations
- Conduct usability testing, analyse user feedback, and iterate on the product to improve the user experience
- Collaborate with marketing, sales, and support teams to develop go-to-market strategies, create product documentation, and provide training
- Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities, reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings
- Guide and mentor a team of product managers, helping them grow in their roles and succeed in their projects
- Oversee the work of multiple product lines, ensuring consistency in strategy and execution across your team
- Facilitate collaboration and resolve conflicts within your team and across other departments
What we're looking for
- Exceptional academic results at high school and university
- Understanding of Linux and the wider open source software community
- Understanding of computer architecture, application development, datacenters, cloud or devices
- Passion to write about technologies and the tech landscape
- A strong work ethic, and personal interests aligned with the open source movement
- Curiosity, and the habit of continuous learning
- A strong sense of ownership
- Problem solving and the ability to innovate
- Outstanding communications skills in English, both verbal and written
- For more senior positions, product management experience in the software industry
- Proven experience in managing and mentoring product managers or cross-functional teams
- Ability to manage multiple projects or product lines while maintaining focus on key priorities
- Demonstrated leadership in aligning diverse teams and driving consensus around product strategies
- Willingness to travel internationally up to 4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long
Nice to have
- Familiarity with a particular verticals (e.g. Telco, Finance, Industrial, Automotive)
- Familiarity with the technology ecosystem including Silicon, IHV, ISV, ODM/OEMs, cloud service providers and channel
- Familiarity with cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker containers & Snaps
- Familiarity with embedded and connected device technology and ecosystems
- Experience in managing distributed teams across different time zones
- Demonstrated ability to foster collaboration and innovation in team settings
Your team
Product Management
Canonical's product management team are technologists who have a passion for delivering products and solutions that help shape market demands while elevating open source software everywhere.
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
Mission
To make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development, striving to be the provider of 'most software to most companies'.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office based roles; most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Excellence
- Open source
- Continuous learning
- Ownership
- Diversity