product
Posted Jan 31, 2025Manager, Product Manager
at Canonical
On-site
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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 are looking for in you
Requirements
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
- Although open source has been around for thirty years, it is only now fundamental to every corner of the software landscape.
- Ubuntu Platform - Our Ubuntu
- experience on Desktop, Server, Windows (WSL), Multipass, Gaming, Enterprise, & Hardware Enablement
- Ubuntu Pro Services - Our key commercial offerings Ubuntu Pro, Compliance, Standards, Security Engineering, and Managed Services on cloud and on prem
- IoT - Ubuntu on embedded devices and/or edge servers, device management, and robotics
- Cloud - Ubuntu in public and private clouds, promoting automation frameworks, and including technologies such as Kubernetes, MAAS, and LXD
- Telco - Open source for Telco's including technologies and standards related to Core Network, RAN/vRAN, SoNIC, DENT, and SmartNICs
- Finance - Open source solutions for financial institutions including trading platforms, blockchain technologies, regulatory compliance, and AI-driven analytics
- Automotive - Open source solutions for autonomous driving, in-vehicle infotainment, connected vehicles, and compliance with automotive industry standards such as ISO 26262 and ISO 21434
- Understanding of Linux and the wider open source software community
- Understanding of computer architecture, application development, datacenters, cloud or devices
- A strong sense of ownership
- Problem solving and the ability to innovate
- 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
- 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 What we offer colleagues
- As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.
Benefits
- You will set a clear vision, prioritize work effectively, and ensure the team delivers high-quality products that meet business and user needs.
- Apply here if you excel at leadership, communication, and technical vision, and believe you can drive product strategy for the business needs of tomorrow.
- Our product managers set the vision and the direction to ensure teams deliver the right products in the right markets at the right time.
- Communicate your product vision, status updates, and key decisions to ensure alignment and manage expectations
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
- We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
- Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
- 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.
- This is a general application track for the product management positions at Canonical, across all levels of team leads.
- As a manager, you will lead a team of product managers, mentoring them to ensure their success while driving alignment with company goals.
- During the interview process we will identify specific software products which would be a good fit for your interests.
- We believe that open source is transforming the way that enterprises solve their business needs.