Product Manager - Cloud Native

Canonical; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Maternity and paternity leave

Job summary

A leading open-source software provider in Dublin is seeking an experienced Product Manager for Cloud Native. This role involves leading product development, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and conducting market research. Candidates should have strong product management experience, a good understanding of cloud-native technologies, and excellent communication skills. The position offers a distributed work environment, annual compensation reviews, and various employee benefits.

Qualifications

• Seasoned product management experience.
• Good understanding of cloud native technologies.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the lifecycle of product development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Conduct market research and gather customer feedback.

Skills

Experience in technical domains related to open source software

Software operations for large scale distributed systems

Cloud native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)

Excellent communication skills in English

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.

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 an application track for a product management position at Canonical on Cloud Native. We believe that open source is transforming the way that enterprises solve their business needs.

Juju is an open source orchestration engine for software operators that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure using charms.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the lifecycle of the product development by reviewing the priorities and goals for the products you are responsible for.
• Work closely with the engineering leads to oversee the product development process
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to address common challenges across projects, to align on priorities, to make informed decisions, and to keep business execution on track
• Conduct market research, analyse industry trends, and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities, and to ensure alignment with Canonical's overall vision
• Develop your team through coaching, mentoring and training
• Establish KPIs for project status reporting and communicate it across Canonical
• Drive execution excellence through continuous feedback and improvement
• Contribute to the development of strategies to create and maintain high performing teams
• Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities, by reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings

Requirements

• Seasoned product management experience in technical domains related to the usage and/or the management of open source software in the cloud native landscape
• Experiences designing or managing software operations for large scale distributed systems
• Good understanding of cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker containers.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the common enterprise security and compliance requirements in the area of software operations
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and drive their execution to excellence
• Passion to write about technologies and experience in the area of developer marketing
• A strong work ethic, and personal interests aligned with the open source philosophy
• Excellent communications skills in English, both verbal and written
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Nice-to-have skills

• Experience with CNCF projects, identity or observability systems is a plus.
• Demonstrate an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and be passionate about the future of technology
• Have a strong sense of ownership. All parts of the product's success and your team's success are your responsibility.
• Be a problem solver, have the ability to think out of the box, and demonstrate visionary leadership

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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

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.