Project Manager - Ubuntu Embedded Systems

<p>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.</p> <p>The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.</p> <p>We are hiring a <strong>Project Manager - Ubuntu Embedded Systems at Canonical</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a project manager for Canonical’s Devices business, this role is responsible for the coordination and completion of large complex customer-facing projects, overseeing all aspects of project delivery and acting as the primary delivery liaison between Canonical's engineering teams and Canonical's customers.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will be managing the projects that involve the delivery of Ubuntu images on a wide variety of devices ranging from robots, edge gateways, and IoT devices to PCs and automotive systems. This is a high-profile project management position where you are expected to build and maintain working relationships with team members, customers, other partners/vendors (Silicon vendors, OEMs, ODMs, IHVs), and other Canonical departments/teams. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Location:</strong> This role will be based remotely in the APAC region</span></p> <h2><strong>The role entails</strong></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Managing projects through their complete life cycle and ensuring that the overall goals for both Canonical and the client are met</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Successfully delivering engineering professional services for assigned projects</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Working with engineering teams on custom board enablement and delivery of Ubuntu images to the customers</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Assisting in the development of project statements of work</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Drafting and maintaining project-specific schedules/project plans </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Obtaining client agreement to the project schedule and agreed-upon work items</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensuring projects are delivered within the time/resources/scope expectations</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Managing project risk mitigation and plans</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Driving technical issues to reach desired delivery outcomes</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maintaining daily and weekly communication with the client and all internal stakeholders</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Managing delivery schedule of critical third-party deliverables for the project</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keeping management informed of the status of assigned projects</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify custom engineering requests that are not part of an existing business contract</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Advocating for the appropriate technologies from Canonical's product portfolio to c ... (truncated, view full listing at source)