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Enterprise Project Manager at Canonical

CanonicalLagos, Nigeria Project Management
Full Time

Canonical - We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world's most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'?. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why its the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

The successful Project Manager will have solid IT project management experience in a software engineering and/or information technology field, excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and experience leading cross-cultural, remote and global project teams and customers. You will be able to "make things happen" with a professional approach and effective negotiation techniques. You have Agile expertise and Project Management certification.

If this sounds like you and you have experience in the areas below, we'd love to hear from you:

  • Enterprise IT Programs
  • Process Improvement
  • Software Engineering Project Management

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

  • Leading diverse, remote project teams
  • Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects
  • Hiring, managing teams and helping to develop team skills
  • SW engineering and IT project management
  • Driving project success while managing risks
  • Experience in building collaborative internal and external partnerships
  • Solid commercial skills; experience in dealing with contracts
  • Effective negotiator, comfortable in a customer facing roles for complex projects
  • Degree level education in Computer Science or STEM field, ideally also an MBA or similar qualification
  • Able to travel 6-8 weeks a year, up to two weeks at a time, sometimes internationally
  • Flexibility to work non-standard hours when required, in support of a worldwide sales and project team

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