Networking Product Lead for Smart NIC & ToR

Canonical; Metz; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 125 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Learning budget

Annual salary review

Parental leave

Travel opportunities

Résumé du poste

Canonical is seeking a Networking Product Manager to lead Ubuntu/Ubuntu Core integration for Smart NICs and ToR switches. You will shape roadmaps, engage with ecosystem partners, and drive go-to-market strategies while guiding product strategy from conception to delivery.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, and sales to align business goals with technical realities, enabling successful market launches and continuous innovation in open source networking.

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic results at high school and university.
• Understanding of Linux and the wider open source software community.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 4 times a year for company events.
• Outstanding communication skills in English, both verbal and written.
• For more senior positions, product management experience in the software industry.
• Deep understanding of hyperscale and enterprise data centre architecture and challenges related to high parallelism workloads (HPC, AI and Big Data).
• Strong knowledge of the inner workings of network protocols, their implementation and optimization at the hardware, kernel and library layers.
• Understanding of computer architectures: x86, ARM, RISC-Vw.
• Familiarity with relevant Smart NIC and ToR switches software, standards and the market, including trends, ODMs, silicons, cloud service providers and other key players.
• Involvement with Linux networking distribution and software packages, such as SONiC, DENT, FRRouting, VyOS, Open Network Linux (ONL), or Cumulus.
• Practical experience with large scale network design, implementation and operation.
• Curiosity, and the habit of continuous learning.
• A strong sense of ownership.
• Problem solving and the ability to innovate.
• Outstanding communication skills in English, both verbal and written.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long.

Responsabilités

• Lead the product development lifecycle, 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.
• Communicate your product vision, status updates, and key decisions to ensure alignment and manage expectations.
• 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.
• Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities, reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings.

Connaissances

Understanding Linux

Open source knowledge

Product management experience

Excellent communication

Strong ownership

Problem solving

Continuous learning

Travel willingness

Formation

Strong academic record

Outils

Kubernetes

Docker

Snaps

Linux networking distributions

Cumulus

Description du poste

Canonical is seeking a Networking Product Manager to lead Ubuntu/Ubuntu Core integration for Smart NICs and ToR switches. You will shape roadmaps, engage with ecosystem partners, and drive go-to-market strategies while guiding product strategy from conception to delivery.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, and sales to align business goals with technical realities, enabling successful market launches and continuous innovation in open source networking.