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About the role
Canonical’s mission is to streamline and accelerate the adoption of open source across the entire global enterprise technology market. Our customers embrace the Canonical approach to open source for complex projects on bare metal, on the cloud, and at the edge.
We are hiring an Enterprise Project Manager. Canonical Enterprise Project Managers are responsible for ensuring project success through owning, driving, communicating and respectfully engaging all stakeholders, valuing integrity and accountability. This is a globally remote role.
What you'll do
- Ensuring programs and projects are delivered within the schedule, scope, cost, budget and resources expectations.
- Identifying key technical and project risks and issues and actively putting mitigating actions in place.
- Maintaining strong customer focus and working with all key stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
- Conducting regular status meetings and business reviews with customers and providing direction when needed.
- Managing the delivery schedule of critical third party deliverables for the project.
- Advocating to customers the appropriate technologies from Canonical's portfolio.
- Driving project success while managing risks.
What they're looking for
- Experience in Enterprise IT Programs, Process Improvement, and Software Engineering Project Management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Experience leading cross-cultural, remote and global project teams and customers.
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- Deep understanding of Linux, Open Source, and Cloud Technologies.
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline.
- Project Management Certification, preferably PMP or equivalent certification.
- Agile Project Management certification, preferably Scrum Master or equivalent certification.
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
Benefits, as listed
The hot takeJeff's read on Canonical
Canonical is a bit tricky for me to review for a few reasons:
Their Glassdoor reviews have dropped down to 3.1 (March 25, 2026), right at my threshold. I'd want to see this start trending in the correct direction in order to consider them for inclusion again.
I like they they have yearly sprints in cool locations like Cape Town, Madrid, and London.
I like that hire-from-anywhere/work-from-anywhere roles are clearly labeled on the job listings as "worldwide."
I'd like to read more about how they feel about their employees traveling as a digital nomad, or being location-independent in general.
I'd like to see more details about the perks they do or don't offer employees, though I suspect they vary by hiring region.
Please get back to me, because I would like to include you again, but need a few more details to do so.