Product Manager - Industrial Sector Lead

July 2

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Canonical

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Open Source • Cloud • AI

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open-source operating system, which provides fast, modern, and secure Linux solutions for desktops, servers, and cloud environments. They offer a comprehensive set of products and services, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, cloud solutions such as OpenStack, and tools for managing containerized applications with Kubernetes. Canonical focuses on making open-source technology reliable and accessible across various industries, from IoT and AI to enterprise infrastructure.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

📋 Description

• Lead the lifecycle of the product development by reviewing the priorities and goals for the product you are responsible for. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to address common challenges across projects, to align on priorities, to enable informed decisions in the teams, 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 • Communicate the 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, by reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings

🎯 Requirements

• Exceptional academic results at high school and university • Practised product management experience in technical domains related to the usage and/or the management of open source software • Solid knowledge of Industry 4.0, IoT, and edge computing technologies • Excellent writing and presentation skills • Commercial astuteness for pricing and product strategy • Understanding of physical compute - servers, networking, storage • Understanding of industrial-specific open source software such as IoT frameworks, OPC UA, EdgeX Foundry, ROS (Robot Operating System), and industrial automation platforms • Understanding of the open source infrastructure projects such Kubernetes and Openstack, • Solid knowledge of Linux and the wider Open Source Software community and understanding of computer architecture, including awareness of Ubuntu offering • Passion to write about technologies and the Tech landscape with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and be passionate about the future of technology • Have a strong sense of ownership with a view that every part of the product's success is your responsibility • Be a problem solver and have the ability to think out of the box • A strong work ethic, and personal interests aligned with the open source philosophy • Very good communications skills in English, both verbal and written • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events