Product Manager - Cloud

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EMEA region
Experience
3 years

Job description

Product management role at Canonical covering cloud native operations product areas including Juju, identity management and observability. The role sets commercial strategy and marketing leadership for these products and leads their development lifecycle.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time
Work mode
Remote · EMEA region
Languages
English – fluent

What you'll do

  • Lead the lifecycle of the product development by reviewing the priorities and goals for the products you are responsible for
  • Work closely with the engineering leads to oversee the product development process
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to address common challenges across projects, to align on priorities, to make informed decisions, and to keep business execution on track
  • Conduct market research, analyse industry trends, and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities, and to ensure alignment with Canonical's overall vision
  • Develop your team through coaching, mentoring and training
  • Establish KPIs for project status reporting and communicate it across Canonical
  • Drive execution excellence through continuous feedback and improvement
  • Contribute to the development of strategies to create and maintain high performing teams
  • Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities, by reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings

What we're looking for

  • Seasoned product management experience in technical domains related to the usage and/or the management of open source software in the cloud native landscape
  • Experiences designing or managing software operations for large scale distributed systems
  • Good understanding of cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker containers
  • Comprehensive knowledge of the common enterprise security and compliance requirements in the area of software operations
  • Proven ability to lead technical teams and drive their execution to excellence
  • Passion to write about technologies and experience in the area of developer marketing
  • A strong work ethic, and personal interests aligned with the open source philosophy
  • Excellent communications skills in English, both verbal and written
  • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Nice to have

  • Experience with CNCF projects, identity or observability systems is a plus
  • Demonstrate an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and be passionate about the future of technology
  • Have a strong sense of ownership. All parts of the product's success and your team's success are your responsibility
  • Be a problem solver, have the ability to think out of the box, and demonstrate visionary leadership

Your team

Product management team

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.

Benefits

  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 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 from your team and others
  • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  • Performance-driven annual bonus or commission

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About Canonical

A leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough 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
  • Open source software and operating systems
  • 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
  • Very few office based roles
  • Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
  • Founder led, profitable and growing
  • Working remotely since 2004

What they value

  • Excellence
  • Open source philosophy
  • Fairness globally
  • Diversity