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The role of an Engineering Manager at Canonical As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, you must be technically strong, but your main responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage. You will develop and review code as a leader, while at the same time staying aware of that the best way to improve the product is to ensure that the whole team is focused, productive and unblocked. You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do meaningful work, do it outstandingly well, find professional and personal satisfaction, and work well with colleagues and the community. You will also be expected to be a positive influence on culture, facilitate technical delivery, and regularly reflect with your team on strategy and execution. You will collaborate closely with other Engineering Managers, product managers, and architects, producing an engineering roadmap with ambitious and achievable goals. We expect Engineering Managers to be fluent in the programming language, architecture, and components that their team uses, in this case popular open-source machine learning tools like Kubeflow, MLFlow, and Feast. Code reviews and architectural leadership are part of the job. The commitment to healthy engineering practices, documentation, quality and performance optimisation is as important, as is the requirement for fair and clear management, and the obligation to ensure a high-performing team. Location: This is a Globally remote role. What your day will look like - Manage a distributed team of engineers and its MLOps/Analytics portfolio - Organize and lead the team’s processes in order to help it achieve its objectives - Conduct one-on-one meetings with team members - Identify and measure team health indicators - Interact with a vibrant community - Review code produced by other engineers - Attend conferences to represent Canonical and its MLOps solutions - Mentor and grow your direct reports, helping them achieve their professional goals - Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events What we are looking for in you - A proven track record of professional experience of software delivery - Professional python development experience, preferably with a track record in open source - A proven understanding of the machine learning space, its challenges and opportunities to improve - Experience designing and implementing MLOps solutions - An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university - Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events Additional skills that you might also bring The following skills may be helpful to you in the role, but we don't expect everyone to bring all of them. - Hands-on experience with machine learning libraries, or tools. - Proven track record of building highly automated machine learning solutions for the cloud. - Experience with building machine learning models - Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, etc.) - Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) - Experience in the Linux and open-source software world - Working knowledg

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. We are hiring an MLOps Field Engineer to help global companies embrace AI/ML in their business, using the latest open source capabilities on public and private cloud infrastructure, Linux and Kubernetes. Our team applies expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Ubuntu, Kubeflow, MLFlow, Feast, DVC and related analytics, machine learning and data technologies. We are working to create the world's best open source data platform, covering traditional SQL databases and today's NoSQL data stores, as well as the machinery which turns data into insights and executable models. The people who love this role are MLOps engineers who enjoy customer conversations and solving customer problems during the presales cycle. They are solutions architects who like to solve customer problems through architecture, presentations and training. This role is highly focused on designing ML architectures for external customers. It is not a software development role. This role is particularly suited to candidates with a technical background who are business minded and driven by commercial success. This role is on our global Field Engineering team and will work closely with enterprise sales leads. We are specifically looking for people interested in solving the most difficult problems in modern data architectures. Training LLMs on multiple Kubernetes clusters deployed on a hybrid cloud infrastructure with GPU sharing across multiple teams? Processing 10M events in real time for financial transactions? Object detection on 10k parallel 4K video streams? These are the problems we solve day to day. Location : Most of our colleagues work from home. We are growing teams in EMEA, Americas and APAC time zones, so can accommodate candidates from almost any country. What your day will look like The global Field Engineering team members are Linux and cloud solutions architects for our customers, designing private and public cloud solutions fitting their workload needs. They are the cloud consultants who work hands-on with the technologies by deploying, testing and handing over the solution to our support or managed services team at the end of a project. They are also software engineers who use Python to develop Kubernetes operators and Linux open source infrastructure-as-code. - Work across the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications, - Architect cloud infrastructure solutions like Kubernetes, Kubeflow, OpenStack and Spark, - Deliver solutions either on-premise or in public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), - Collect customer business requirements and advise them on Ubuntu and relevant open source applications, - Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values, - Deliver presentations and demonstrations of Ubuntu Pro and AI/ML capabilities to prospective and current clients, - Liaise with

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and AI. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company. Your role will be to help us provide easy-to-deploy, secure, and customizable edge AI solutions, specifically focusing on Inference Snaps. You will work on designing and implementing silicon-optimized application packages for AI/ML inference, targeting devices from embedded systems to powerful gateways. Linux will be at the core of your everyday challenges. In our team we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration/unit testing, and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required. What you’ll do - Collaborate proactively with a distributed team - Develop and maintain open-source AI/ML inference application packages - Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them - Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers at Canonical - Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions - Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade Edge AI solutions - Secure deployment of AI inference platforms on Linux - Build optimized AI solutions for local inferencing on Ubuntu - Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events Who you are - Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++. - Experience working on and developing applications for Linux - You have interest and experience with a few of the following: - Containers (docker, kubernetes) - Snap, debian, or RPM packaging - Bash scripting - CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc) - Local AI/ML inference frameworks - Hardware accelerators: GPU, NPU - You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated - You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity , we will give your application fair consideration. LI-remote

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. Canonical’s product management team are technologists who have a passion for delivering products and solutions that help shape market demands while elevating open source software everywhere. This is a general application track for the product management positions at Canonical. You will set a clear vision, prioritize work effectively, and ensure the team delivers high-quality products that meet business and user needs. Apply here if you excel at leadership, communication, and technical vision, and believe you can drive product strategy for the business needs of tomorrow. During the interview process we will identify specific software products which would be a good fit for your interests. We believe that open source is transforming the way that enterprises solve their business needs. Although open source has been around for thirty years, it is only now fundamental to every corner of the software landscape. Going forward we believe open source will have an even bigger impact as it moves into specialised vertical markets. Our goal is to make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development. We strive to be the provider of ‘most software to most companies’, starting with Ubuntu but expanding to cover every class of application on every class of compute. To deliver on that ambition, we select product managers for their intellect and strong drive to advance the open source community. Together, we aim to improve open source quality, outreach, and impact. Our product managers set the vision and the direction to ensure teams deliver the right products in the right markets at the right time. They push the boundaries of the technology landscape to identify and deliver products into new and existing market opportunities. Our product managers are technology professionals with a software engineering background who strive to become business executives and entrepreneurs. We discuss strategy, plan product development, drive engagement, and promote the open source way. We oversee the entire product lifecycle from conception to delivery, blending technical expertise, strategic thinking, analytics, project management skills and effective communication to ensure products meet both user needs and business objectives. We have open product manager roles across a wide range of product domains, including: - Ubuntu Platform - Our Ubuntu experience on Desktop, Server, Windows (WSL), Multipass, Gaming, Enterprise, & Hardware Enablement - Ubuntu Pro Services - Our key commercial offerings Ubuntu Pro, Compliance, Standards, Security Engineering, and Managed Services on cloud and on prem - AI/ML & MLOps - Open source AI/ML solutions, AIOps automation, model lifecycle management, Kubeflow, MLFlow, KServe, and AI infrastructure on cloud and edge - IoT - Ubuntu on embedded devices and/or edge servers, device management, and robotics - Cloud - Ubuntu in public and private clouds, promoting automation frameworks, and including technologies such as Kubernetes, MAAS, and LXD - Telco - Open source for Telco's

The role of an Junior Campaign Manager at Canonical Canonical has provided developers with open source since 2004, helping them build innovations such as public cloud, machine learning, robotics or blockchain. Marketing at Canonical means being at the forefront of technology adoption, for our customers and for our own martech stack. We’re on the look out for a performance marketing manager to join our team and own our paid strategy. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. You will prefer to work in an environment that has emphasis on ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to continually improve oneself / the team / the organisation. You will also love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier. The Marketing team at Canonical drives commercial outcomes for the company across its portfolio of products and grows the addressable market through digital marketing campaigns, lifecycle management, events, partnerships and community development. If these things are important to you and you're motivated by driving growth, delighting customers and filling the sales funnel, we want to talk with you. This role sits in the Marketing team reporting to the Growth Engineering Manager. Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. What your day will look like - Support marketing team members with setting up and monitoring paid campaigns - Monitor paid ads performance and budgets across the Marketing team - Build on automation and AI to improve paid ads performance - Develop Canonical's adtech stack to industry leading standard What we are looking for in you - Familiarity with ad platforms (Google, LinkedIn, Meta...) - Familiarity with campaign tracking and analytics tools - Experience driving successful lead generation campaigns. - Experience with A/B testing and data-driven decision making. - Exceptional interpersonal skills and aptitude for forging trusting relationships across diverse, cross-functional teams - Proven ability to prioritise and differentiate what matters from the noise, meeting deadlines without sacrificing quality - A growth mindset - someone who is not afraid to think big and take on risks - Engagement with the latest trends in marketing technology - Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce. In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process. 🏠Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! 📚Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum 💰Annual compensation review 🏆Recognition rewards 🏝 Annual holiday leave 👶Parental Leave 🧑💼Employee Assistance Program

The role of a Junior Ads Specialist at Canonical Canonical has provided developers with open source since 2004, helping them build innovations such as public cloud, machine learning, robotics or blockchain. Marketing at Canonical means being at the forefront of technology adoption, for our customers and for our own martech stack. We’re on the look out for a performance marketing manager to join our team and own our paid strategy. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. You will prefer to work in an environment that has emphasis on ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to continually improve oneself / the team / the organisation. You will also love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier. The Marketing team at Canonical drives commercial outcomes for the company across its portfolio of products and grows the addressable market through digital marketing campaigns, lifecycle management, events, partnerships and community development. If these things are important to you and you're motivated by driving growth, delighting customers and filling the sales funnel, we want to talk with you. This role sits in the Marketing team reporting to the Growth Engineering Manager. Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. What your day will look like - Support marketing team members with setting up and monitoring paid ads campaigns - Monitor paid ads performance and budgets across the Marketing team - Build on automation and AI to improve paid ads performance - Develop Canonical's adtech stack to industry leading standard What we are looking for in you - Proficiency with all ad platforms (Google, LinkedIn, Meta...) - Familiarity with campaign tracking and analytics tools - Experience driving successful lead generation campaigns. - Experience with A/B testing and data-driven decision making. - Exceptional interpersonal skills and aptitude for forging trusting relationships across diverse, cross-functional teams - Proven ability to prioritise and differentiate what matters from the noise, meeting deadlines without sacrificing quality - A growth mindset - someone who is not afraid to think big and take on risks - Engagement with the latest trends in marketing technology - Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce. In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process. 🏠Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! 📚Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum 💰Annual compensation review 🏆Recognition rewards 🏝 Annual holiday leave 👶Parental Leave 🧑💼Employee Assistance Pr

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few roles based in offices. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring Python and Kubernetes Specialist Engineers focused on Data, Workflows, AI/ML and Analytics Solutions to join our teams building open source solutions for public cloud and private infrastructure. As a software engineer on the team, you'll collaborate on end-to-end data analytics and MLOps solutions composed of popular, open-source, machine learning tools, such as Kubeflow, MLFlow, DVC, and Feast. You may also work on ETL, data governance and visualization tools like Apache SuperSet, dbt, workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow and Temporal, or data warehouse solutions such as Apache Trino, or ClickHouse. These solutions may be run on servers or on the cloud, on machines or on Kubernetes, on developer desktops, or as web services. We serve the needs of individuals and community members as much as the needs of our Global 2000 and Fortune 500 customers; we make our primary work available free of charge and our Pro subscriptions are also available to individuals for personal use at no cost. Our goal is to enable more people to enjoy the benefits of open source, regardless of their circumstances. Location: This initiative spans many teams that are home-based and in multiple time zones. We believe in distributed collaboration but we also try to ensure that colleagues have company during their work hours! Successful candidates will join a team where most members and your manager are broadly in the same time zone so that you have the benefits of constant collaboration and discussion. What your day will look like - Develop your understanding of the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, and storage, to the application layer - Design, build and maintain solutions that will be deployed on public and private clouds and local workstations - Master distributed systems concepts such as observability, identity, tracing - Work with both Kubernetes and machine-oriented open source applications - Collaborate proactively with a distributed team of engineers, designers and product managers - Debug issues and interact in public with upstream and Ubuntu communities - Generate and discuss ideas, and collaborate on finding good solutions What we are looking for in you - Professional or academic software delivery using Python - Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university - Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path - Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation - Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results - Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives - The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motiv

The role of a Junior Ads Specialist at Canonical Canonical has provided developers with open source since 2004, helping them build innovations such as public cloud, machine learning, robotics or blockchain. Marketing at Canonical means being at the forefront of technology adoption, for our customers and for our own martech stack. We’re on the look out for a performance marketing manager to join our team and own our paid strategy. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. You will prefer to work in an environment that has emphasis on ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to continually improve oneself / the team / the organisation. You will also love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier. The Marketing team at Canonical drives commercial outcomes for the company across its portfolio of products and grows the addressable market through digital marketing campaigns, lifecycle management, events, partnerships and community development. If these things are important to you and you're motivated by driving growth, delighting customers and filling the sales funnel, we want to talk with you. This role sits in the Marketing team reporting to the Growth Engineering Manager. Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. What your day will look like - Support marketing team members with setting up and monitoring paid ads campaigns - Monitor paid ads performance and budgets across the Marketing team - Build on automation and AI to improve paid ads performance - Develop Canonical's adtech stack to industry leading standard What we are looking for in you - Proficiency with all ad platforms (Google, LinkedIn, Meta...) - Familiarity with campaign tracking and analytics tools - Experience driving successful lead generation campaigns. - Experience with A/B testing and data-driven decision making. - Exceptional interpersonal skills and aptitude for forging trusting relationships across diverse, cross-functional teams - Proven ability to prioritise and differentiate what matters from the noise, meeting deadlines without sacrificing quality - A growth mindset - someone who is not afraid to think big and take on risks - Engagement with the latest trends in marketing technology - Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce. In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process. 🏠Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! 📚Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum 💰Annual compensation review 🏆Recognition rewards 🏝 Annual holiday leave 👶Parental Leave 🧑💼Employee Assistance Pr

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and AI. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company. Your role will be to help us provide easy-to-deploy, secure, and customizable edge AI solutions, specifically focusing on Inference Snaps. You will work on designing and implementing silicon-optimized application packages for AI/ML inference, targeting devices from embedded systems to powerful gateways. Linux will be at the core of your everyday challenges. In our team we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration/unit testing, and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required. What you’ll do - Collaborate proactively with a distributed team - Develop and maintain open-source AI/ML inference application packages - Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them - Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers at Canonical - Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions - Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade Edge AI solutions - Secure deployment of AI inference platforms on Linux - Build optimized AI solutions for local inferencing on Ubuntu - Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events Who you are - Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++. - Experience working on and developing applications for Linux - You have interest and experience with a few of the following: - Containers (docker, kubernetes) - Snap, debian, or RPM packaging - Bash scripting - CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc) - Local AI/ML inference frameworks - Hardware accelerators: GPU, NPU - You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated - You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity , we will give your application fair consideration. LI-remote

The role of an Junior Campaign Manager at Canonical Canonical has provided developers with open source since 2004, helping them build innovations such as public cloud, machine learning, robotics or blockchain. Marketing at Canonical means being at the forefront of technology adoption, for our customers and for our own martech stack. We’re on the look out for a performance marketing manager to join our team and own our paid strategy. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. You will prefer to work in an environment that has emphasis on ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to continually improve oneself / the team / the organisation. You will also love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier. The Marketing team at Canonical drives commercial outcomes for the company across its portfolio of products and grows the addressable market through digital marketing campaigns, lifecycle management, events, partnerships and community development. If these things are important to you and you're motivated by driving growth, delighting customers and filling the sales funnel, we want to talk with you. This role sits in the Marketing team reporting to the Growth Engineering Manager. Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. What your day will look like - Support marketing team members with setting up and monitoring paid campaigns - Monitor paid ads performance and budgets across the Marketing team - Build on automation and AI to improve paid ads performance - Develop Canonical's adtech stack to industry leading standard What we are looking for in you - Familiarity with ad platforms (Google, LinkedIn, Meta...) - Familiarity with campaign tracking and analytics tools - Experience driving successful lead generation campaigns. - Experience with A/B testing and data-driven decision making. - Exceptional interpersonal skills and aptitude for forging trusting relationships across diverse, cross-functional teams - Proven ability to prioritise and differentiate what matters from the noise, meeting deadlines without sacrificing quality - A growth mindset - someone who is not afraid to think big and take on risks - Engagement with the latest trends in marketing technology - Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce. In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process. 🏠Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! 📚Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum 💰Annual compensation review 🏆Recognition rewards 🏝 Annual holiday leave 👶Parental Leave 🧑💼Employee Assistance Program

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. Canonical’s product management team are technologists who have a passion for delivering products and solutions that help shape market demands while elevating open source software everywhere. This is a general application track for the product management positions at Canonical. You will set a clear vision, prioritize work effectively, and ensure the team delivers high-quality products that meet business and user needs. Apply here if you excel at leadership, communication, and technical vision, and believe you can drive product strategy for the business needs of tomorrow. During the interview process we will identify specific software products which would be a good fit for your interests. We believe that open source is transforming the way that enterprises solve their business needs. Although open source has been around for thirty years, it is only now fundamental to every corner of the software landscape. Going forward we believe open source will have an even bigger impact as it moves into specialised vertical markets. Our goal is to make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development. We strive to be the provider of ‘most software to most companies’, starting with Ubuntu but expanding to cover every class of application on every class of compute. To deliver on that ambition, we select product managers for their intellect and strong drive to advance the open source community. Together, we aim to improve open source quality, outreach, and impact. Our product managers set the vision and the direction to ensure teams deliver the right products in the right markets at the right time. They push the boundaries of the technology landscape to identify and deliver products into new and existing market opportunities. Our product managers are technology professionals with a software engineering background who strive to become business executives and entrepreneurs. We discuss strategy, plan product development, drive engagement, and promote the open source way. We oversee the entire product lifecycle from conception to delivery, blending technical expertise, strategic thinking, analytics, project management skills and effective communication to ensure products meet both user needs and business objectives. We have open product manager roles across a wide range of product domains, including: - Ubuntu Platform - Our Ubuntu experience on Desktop, Server, Windows (WSL), Multipass, Gaming, Enterprise, & Hardware Enablement - Ubuntu Pro Services - Our key commercial offerings Ubuntu Pro, Compliance, Standards, Security Engineering, and Managed Services on cloud and on prem - AI/ML & MLOps - Open source AI/ML solutions, AIOps automation, model lifecycle management, Kubeflow, MLFlow, KServe, and AI infrastructure on cloud and edge - IoT - Ubuntu on embedded devices and/or edge servers, device management, and robotics - Cloud - Ubuntu in public and private clouds, promoting automation frameworks, and including technologies such as Kubernetes, MAAS, and LXD - Telco - Open source for Telco's including technologies and standards related to Core Network, RAN/vRAN, SoNIC, DENT, and SmartNICs - Finance - Open source solutions for financial institutions including trading platforms, blockchain technologies, regulatory compliance, and AI-driven analytics - Automotive - Open source solutions for autonomous driving, in-vehicle infotainment, connected vehicles, and compliance with automotive industry standards such as ISO 26262 and ISO 21434 - Application Management - Open source solutions in the enterprise including Observability, IAM, App Stores and technologies such Grafana, GitOps, and Juju Charms If your domain of expertise isn’t listed above, yet you feel it’s relevant to Canonical, then feel free to apply anyway. We will route you to the most suitable team. Location: These roles are home based in the EMEA time zone. You will be expected to be located in this region. The role entails - Lead the product development lifecycle, reviewing the priorities and goals for your product - Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales - Address common challenges across projects, align on priorities, enable informed decisions, and keep business execution on track - Conduct market research, analyse industry trends, and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities - Communicate your 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, reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings - Oversee the work of a product line, ensuring consistency in strategy and execution across different teams - Facilitate collaboration and resolve conflicts within different teams and across other departments What we are looking for in you - Exceptional academic results at high school and university - Understanding of Linux and the wider open source software community - Understanding of computer architecture, application development, datacenters, cloud or devices - Passion to write about technologies and the tech landscape - A strong work ethic, and personal interests aligned with the open source movement - Curiosity, and the habit of continuous learning - A strong sense of ownership - Problem solving and the ability to innovate - Outstanding communications skills in English, both verbal and written - For more senior positions, product management experience in the software industry - Ability to manage multiple projects or product lines while maintaining focus on key priorities - Demonstrated leadership in aligning diverse teams and driving consensus around product strategies - Willingness to travel internationally up to 4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long Additional skills that we value - Familiarity with a particular verticals (e.g. Telco, Finance, Industrial, Automotive) - Familiarity with the technology ecosystem including Silicon, IHV, ISV, ODM/OEMs, cloud service providers and channel - Familiarity with cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker containers & Snaps - Familiarity with embedded and connected device technology and ecosystems - Familiarity with networking technologies - ethernet, IPv4 and IPv6, routing, firewalling, overlays such as OVN/OVS, VPNs, SR-IOV, infiniband - Familiarity with telco networking - RAN, Core, CPE - Experience in leading distributed teams across different time zones - Demonstrated ability to foster collaboration and innovation in team settings What we offer you We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally. - 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 Program - Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues - Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. LI-remote