Product Manager - Industrial Sector Lead - Remote

Overview

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as 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 is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring a Product Manager - Industrial Sector Lead. Open source technologies are transforming the industrial sector, enabling innovation in IoT, edge computing, robotics, and Industry 4.0 solutions. Ubuntu is a key component of these innovations, widely deployed across manufacturing, automation, and industrial platforms. Canonical has created a product leadership role for industrial technologies. If you have a passion for tech and business, an appreciation for open source, and good communication skills, then you will enjoy a product leadership role at Canonical.

This role is an exceptional opportunity for a technology leader in the industrial sector with experience in automation systems, IoT platforms, and edge computing. Key focus areas include:

In Short

• Lead the lifecycle of the product development by reviewing the priorities and goals for the product you are responsible for.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to address common challenges across projects, to align on priorities, to enable informed decisions in the teams, and to keep business execution on track.
• Conduct market research, analyse industry trends, and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities, and to ensure alignment with Canonical's overall vision.
• Communicate the 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, by reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings.

Requirements

• Exceptional academic results at high school and university.
• Practised product management experience in technical domains related to the usage and/or the management of open source software.
• Solid knowledge of Industry 4.0, IoT, and edge computing technologies.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Commercial astuteness for pricing and product strategy.
• Understanding of physical compute - servers, networking, storage.
• Understanding of industrial-specific open source software such as IoT frameworks, OPC UA, EdgeX Foundry, ROS (Robot Operating System), and industrial automation platforms.
• Understanding of the open source infrastructure projects such Kubernetes and Openstack.
• Solid knowledge of Linux and the wider Open Source Software community and understanding of computer architecture, including awareness of Ubuntu offering.
• Passion to write about technologies and the Tech landscape with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and be passionate about the future of technology.
• Have a strong sense of ownership with a view that every part of the product's success is your responsibility.
• Be a problem solver and have the ability to think out of the box.
• A strong work ethic, and personal interests aligned with the open source philosophy.
• Very good communications skills in English, both verbal and written.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

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, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.