Product Manager - Hardware Certification

Product Manager
- Hardware Certification

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- Hardware Certification role at Canonical.

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives across 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 has 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries with very few office-based roles.

Teams meet two to four times yearly in person to align on strategy and execution. Canonical is founder-led, profitable and growing.

Canonical’s product management team are technologists who deliver products and solutions that help shape market demands while elevating open source software. This is an application track for a product management position at Canonical on Hardware Certifications. Apply here if you excel at leadership, communication, and technical vision, and believe you can drive product strategy for the business needs of tomorrow.

We believe open source is transforming how enterprises solve business needs. Our goal is to make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development. We aim to be the provider of “most software to most companies,” starting with Ubuntu and expanding to cover every class of application on every class of compute.

We select product managers for 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 direction to ensure teams deliver the right products in the right markets at the right time, pushing the boundaries of the technology landscape.

• Lead the roadmap of the Hardware Certification effort and drive our partnership with OEMs
• Work with the engineering team to shape the development roadmap for the Hardware Certification scheme
• Define future business models considering the competitive landscape
• Engage with the Ubuntu user community, key partners, OEMs and leading customers to enable commercial success and drive go-to-market
• Lead the product development lifecycle, reviewing priorities and goals for the product
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing and sales
• Address 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 product vision, status updates, and key decisions to ensure alignment and manage expectations
• Conduct usability testing, analyse user feedback, and iterate to improve 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 the sales team in winning new opportunities, review customer feedback and participate in customer meetings

Location:

This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. You will be expected to be located in this region.

• 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
• Willingness to travel internationally up to 4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long

• Familiarity with the technology ecosystem including Silicon, IHV, ISV, ODM/OEMs, cloud service providers
• Familiarity with embedded and connected device technology and ecosystems
• Familiarity with hardware/software testing frameworks
• Experience building a…