Manager, Ubuntu Enablement Project Management at Canonical

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Manager, Ubuntu Enablement Project Management

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationMBA/MSc/MA
  • Experience
  • LocationNairobi
  • Job FieldICT / Computer  , Project Management 
  • 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.

What your day will look like

  • 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

What we are looking for in you

  • 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

Additional skills that you might also bring

  • Experience with the enablement of hardware and devices under Linux and delivery of commercial software technology projects to device manufacturers
  • Knowledge of Linux and the wider the Open Source Software community
  • Knowledge of Agile project management methodologies is an advantage
  • Familiarity with a wide range of technology such as embedded device/IoT software development
  • Ideally a Masters degree, MBA, or similar qualification
  • Practical experience in automotive, including functional safety, embedded systems, and related software trends
  • Automotive industry standards experience (ISO/IEC 27001, TISAX, ASPICE, etc.)

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Canonical on boards.greenhouse.io to apply

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