Project Manager - Ubuntu Embedded Systems
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted January 20, 2026
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Remote
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Job Description
A project manager role responsible for overseeing the delivery of complex customer-facing projects involving Ubuntu embedded systems across various devices, ensuring successful project execution, stakeholder communication, and technical coordination in a remote, global environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the full lifecycle of complex customer-facing projects related to Ubuntu embedded systems
- Coordinate between engineering teams and customers to ensure project delivery
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and statements of work
- Ensure projects are completed within scope, time, and resources
- Mitigate project risks and resolve technical issues to meet delivery goals
- Communicate regularly with clients and internal stakeholders on project status
- Oversee delivery of third-party components and manage external partnerships
- Identify and address custom engineering requests outside existing contracts
- Advocate for Canonical's technologies and solutions to customers
- Support projects across different time zones and work hours as needed
Requirements
- Solid project management experience in delivering engineering services to customers managing software development teams and field engineers
- Extensive experience successfully managing projects with cross-cultural and multi-continent internal and external project resources, preferably with resources in Asia, Europe, and the Americas
- Educational degree preferably in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math
- Good knowledge of Linux and the wider Open Source Software community, and understanding of computer architecture
- Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, in English
- Strong leader and problem solver with extensive experience building successful internal and external partnerships and effective working relationships with demanding project sponsors in complex organizational environments
- Ability to work non-standard work hours in support of a worldwide sales and project team
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
- Ability to manage projects through their complete life cycle and ensure that overall goals for both Canonical and the client are met
- Experience in successfully delivering engineering professional services for assigned projects
- Experience working with engineering teams on custom board enablement and delivery of Ubuntu images to customers
- Experience in drafting and maintaining project-specific schedules and project plans
- Ability to obtain client agreement to the project schedule and work items
- Experience in managing project risk mitigation and plans
- Ability to drive technical issues to reach desired delivery outcomes
- Experience in maintaining daily and weekly communication with clients and internal stakeholders
- Experience in managing delivery schedule of critical third-party deliverables
- Ability to identify custom engineering requests outside existing contracts
- Willingness to support different time zones and work non-traditional hours as required
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is based on location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and potential for bonuses or commissions
Distributed work environment with remote work
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Team Member Assistance Program
Wellness Platform
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
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