Closing: May 13, 2024
This position has expiredPublished: Apr 30, 2024 (17 days ago)
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- 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 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.)
Responsibilities
- 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 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.)
- 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
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