Product Manager - Cloud

The role

This person will lead the commercial strategy and marketing leadership for cloud native operations products including Juju, Identity management, and Observability. They will manage product lifecycles, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive technical execution.

What you will do

• Lead the lifecycle of the product development by reviewing priorities and goals
• Work closely with engineering leads to oversee the product development process
• Collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams
• Conduct market research, analyse industry trends, and gather customer feedback
• Develop the team through coaching, mentoring and training
• Establish KPIs for project status reporting
• Drive execution excellence through continuous feedback and improvement
• Contribute to strategies to create and maintain high performing teams
• Contribute to sales success by reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings

Required qualifications

• Seasoned product management experience in technical domains related to the usage and/or the management of open source software in the cloud native landscape
• Experiences designing or managing software operations for large scale distributed systems
• Good understanding of cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker containers
• Comprehensive knowledge of the common enterprise security and compliance requirements in the area of software operations
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and drive their execution to excellence
• Passion to write about technologies and experience in the area of developer marketing
• A strong work ethic, and personal interests aligned with the open source philosophy
• Excellent communications skills in English, both verbal and written
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Nice to have

• Experience with CNCF projects, identity or observability systems
• Demonstrate an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and be passionate about the future of technology
• Have a strong sense of ownership
• Be a problem solver, have the ability to think out of the box and demonstrate visionary leadership

Benefits

• 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 Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About the company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source and the publisher of Ubuntu. The company is founder led, profitable and growing, with a distributed workforce.