Overview
Product Manager - Networking s role is based remotely in the EMEA region. You will be expected to be located within this region.
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 such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. We are a founder-led, profitable and growing company with a global distribution and a distributed team. This is an application track for a product management position at Canonical for Networking.
Apply if you excel at leadership, communication, and technical vision, and believe you can drive product strategy for the business needs of tomorrow.
- 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 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 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 the sales team in winning new opportunities, reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings.
- Exceptional academic results at high school and university
- Understanding of Linux and the wider open source software community
- Passion to write about technologies and the tech landscape
- A strong work ethic and personal interests aligned with the open source movement
- For more senior positions, product management experience in the software industry
- Deep understanding of hyperscale and enterprise data centre architecture and challenges related to high parallelism workloads (HPC, AI and Big Data)
- Strong knowledge of the inner workings of network protocols, their implementation and optimization at the hardware, kernel and library layers
- Understanding of computer architectures: x86, ARM, RISC-V
- Familiarity with Smart NIC and ToR switches software, standards and the market, including trends, ODMs, silicons, cloud service providers and other key players
- Involvement with Linux networking distributions and software packages, such as SONiC, DENT, FRRouting, VyOS, Open Network Linux (ONL), or Cumulus
- Practical experience with large scale network design, implementation and operation
- Curiosity and a habit of continuous learning
- A strong sense of ownership
- Problem solving and the ability to innovate
- Outstanding communication skills in English, both verbal and written
- Ability to travel internationally up to 4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long
- Familiarity with 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
We offer a compensation approach that considers geographical location, experience, and performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide benefits reflecting our values, with fair global consideration.
- 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
- 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. We recruit on a global basis and set a high standard for people joining the company. We have focused on remote work since 2004 and encourage thinking differently, learning new skills, and raising your game. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination and will give your application fair consideration.
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