Junior Product Manager

The role

You will lead the product development lifecycle, set product vision, and prioritize work to meet business and user needs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products across various domains.

What you will do

• 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

Required qualifications

• 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
• Ability to manage multiple projects or product lines while maintaining focus on key priorities
• Willingness to travel internationally up to 4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long

Nice to have

• 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

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

About the company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries.