Public Cloud Project Manager

Canonical; Trois-Rivières; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading open-source software company is seeking a Public Cloud Project Manager. This remote role involves managing key enterprise accounts, ensuring successful project delivery and maintaining strong customer relationships. Ideal candidates will have a background in IT Cloud, excellent communication skills, and project management certifications. The company offers a distributed work environment with opportunities for professional development and international travel.

Benefits

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Maternity and paternity leave

Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform

Qualifications

• Proven background in IT Cloud industry as a project manager.
• Deep understanding of Linux and Public Cloud.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Ensure projects are delivered within schedule, scope, and budget.
• Identify and mitigate key project risks.
• Conduct regular status meetings with customers.

Skills

Project management

Communication skills

Negotiation

Cross-cultural teamwork

Understanding of Linux

Open source knowledge

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline

Project Management Certification (PMP or equivalent)

Agile Project Management Certification (Scrum Master or equivalent)

Job description

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. 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.

We are hiring a Public Cloud Project Manager. In this position, customer relationship management and advocacy for Canonical's technical assets are crucial. This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Project Management to build a career with Canonical. If you have an affinity for software, great communication skills, and a passion for technology, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

Public Cloud Project Managers provide account leadership and insight for Canonical's key Tier 1 Enterprise Public Cloud accounts. This role will collaborate with individuals from Software Engineering through Senior Level Executives.

As a Public Cloud Project Manager, you will manage multiple blue-chip company projects simultaneously. Working with all stakeholders, you will shape the SoW or similar agreements with our clients, manage projects through their life-cycles, ensuring the overall goals for both Canonical and the client are met.

Periodic international travel is required. Travel amount and duration will vary based on company and program requirements.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the Americas region.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring programs and projects are delivered within the schedule, scope, cost, budget and resources expectations
• Identifying key technical and project risks and issues and actively put mitigating actions in place
• Maintaining strong customer focus and work with all key stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes
• Conducting regular status meetings and business reviews with customers and provide direction when needed
• Managing the delivery schedule of critical third party deliverables for the project
• Identifying and managing cross organization engineering requests that are not part of existing business contracts.
• Advocating to customers the appropriate technologies from Canonical's portfolio

Requirements

• Proven background in IT Cloud industry as a software development project manager, IT program/project manager, agile software manager or scrum master
• Deep understanding of Linux, Open source, and the Public Cloud space
• Software engineering experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Experience leading cross-cultural, remote and global project teams and customers.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Strong communication skills
• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline
• Project Management Certification, preferably PMP or equivalent certification
• Agile Project Management certification, preferably Scrum Master or equivalent certification
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally

What we offer

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. 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.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.