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Manager, Ubuntu Enablement Project Management
Canonical
Product & Project Management
IT & Telecoms
NGN
Confidential
New
3 weeks ago
Job Summary
We look for customer-facing team players to drive projects and navigate complex engineering constraints. As a manager of the Ubuntu enablement project management team, you will provide active leadership across all aspects of software and hardware enablement, build and maintain working relationships with team members, customers, partners/vendors (Silicon vendors, ODMs, IHVs), and other Canonical departments/teams.
- Minimum Qualification: Others
- Experience Level: Senior level
- Experience Length: 5 years
Job Description/Requirements
Job Responsibilities
- Lead a diverse and distributed team of project managers including performance management and mentoring
- Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities
- Promote industry-recognized, best-in-class project management practices
- Lead the evaluation of project management tools, systems, and processes
- Drive resource capacity planning for the team, identifying gaps and actively looking for solutions to ensure efficient and effective team allocation utilization
- Drive continuous improvement and implementation of best practices
- Establish KPIs for project status reporting across Canonical
- Collaborate with cross-team leads to address common challenges across projects
- Drive execution excellence through continuous feedback and improvement
- Review customer feedback and participate in customer meetings
- Develop your project management team through coaching, mentoring, and training
- Serve as the first customer escalation point on critical projects
- Act as a trusted adviser to company leadership, collaborating with stakeholders to enable customer success
Job Requirements
- Experience leading diverse, remote project teams in a technology company
- Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects
- Experience hiring, managing teams, and developing skills
- Strong software engineering project management experience
- Strong delivery of commercial technology projects to device manufacturers
- Adept at making things happen while successfully managing risks
- Experience building collaborative internal and external partnerships
- Solid commercial skills; experience in dealing with SoW creation
- Effective negotiator, comfortable in a customer-facing pre-sales role for complex projects
- Able to travel 4-6 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 teams
- PMP/PMI or PRINCE2 practitioner certification
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