Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- 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
- 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.)
How To Apply
