We look for customer-facing team players to drive projects and navigate complex engineering constraints. As a manager of the devices project management team, you will provide active leadership across all aspects of software and hardware enablement, build and maintain working relationships with team members, customers, partners/vendors (Silicon vendors, ODMs, IHVs), and other Canonical departments/teams.
Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA and AMER regions
What your day will look like
Lead a diverse and distributed team of project managers including performance management and mentoring
Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities
Promote industry-recognized, best-in-class project management practices
Lead the evaluation of project management tools, systems, and processes
Drive resource capacity planning for the team, identifying gaps and actively looking for solutions to ensure efficient and effective team allocation utilization
Drive continuous improvement and implementation of best practices
Establish KPIs for project status reporting across Canonical
Collaborate with cross-team leads to address common challenges across projects
Drive execution excellence through continuous feedback and improvement
Review customer feedback and participate in customer meetings
Develop your project management team through coaching, mentoring, and training
Serve as the first customer escalation point on critical projects
Act as a trusted adviser to company leadership, collaborating with stakeholders to enable customer success
What we are looking for in you
Experience leading diverse, remote project teams in a technology company
Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects
Experience hiring, managing teams, and developing skills
Strong software engineering project management experience
Strong delivery of commercial technology projects to device manufacturers
Adept at making things happen while successfully managing risks
Experience building collaborative internal and external partnerships
Solid commercial skills; experience in dealing with SoW creation
Effective negotiator, comfortable in a customer-facing pre-sales role for complex projects
Able to travel 4-6 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 teams
PMP/PMI or PRINCE2 practitioner certification
Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring
Experience with the enablement of hardware and devices under Linux and delivery of commercial software technology projects to device manufacturers
Knowledge of Linux and the wider the Open Source Software community
Knowledge of Agile project management methodologies is an advantage
Familiarity with a wide range of technology such as embedded device/IoT software development
Ideally a Masters degree, MBA, or similar qualification
Practical experience in automotive, including functional safety, embedded systems, and related software trends
Automotive industry standards experience (ISO/IEC 27001, TISAX, ASPICE, etc.)
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