Product Manager - Cloud

<p>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.</p>
<p>The company is founder led, profitable and growing.</p>
<p>Canonical’s product management team are technologists who have a passion for delivering products and solutions that help shape market demands while elevating open source software everywhere. This is an application track for a product management position at Canonical on Cloud Native. Apply here if you excel at leadership, communication, and technical vision, and believe you can drive product strategy for the business needs of tomorrow.</p>
<p>We believe that open source is transforming the way that enterprises solve their business needs. Although open source has been around for thirty years, it is only now fundamental to every corner of the software landscape. Going forward we believe open source will have an even bigger impact as it moves into specialised vertical markets. Our goal is to make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development. We strive to be the provider of ‘most software to most companies’, starting with Ubuntu but expanding to cover every class of application on every class of compute. To deliver on that ambition, we select product managers for their 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 the direction to ensure teams deliver the right products in the right markets at the right time. They push the boundaries of the technology landscape to identify and deliver products into new and existing market opportunities.</p>
<p>Juju is an open source orchestration engine for software operators that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure using charms. Juju is currently used by our clients, partners, and the community to orchestrate both small and enterprise-scale infrastructure and application deployments across a variety of substrates.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This role is responsible for the commercial strategy and marketing leadership of one of our cloud native operations product areas, including&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://juju.is/">Juju</a> - the open source orchestration engine for software operators that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure using charms</li>
<li>Identity management - defining the way authentication, authorisation and identity governance controls are applied across Ubuntu One SSO and the other Canonical products</li>
<li>Observability - outlining the strategy for the way Canonical products and <a href="https://juju.is/docs/olm/charmed-operator">charms</a> perform tracing and are able to discern the underlying system health&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<p>Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. You will be expected to be based in this region.</p>
<h2>This role entails</h2>
<ul>
<li>Lead the lifecycle of the product development by reviewing the priorities and goals for the products you are responsible for.</li>
<li>Work closely with the engineering leads to oversee the product development process</li>
<li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to address common challenges across projects, to align on priorities, to make informed decisions, and to keep business execution on track</li>
<li>Conduct market research, analyse industry trends, and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities, and to ensure alignment with Canonical's overall vision</li>
<li>Develop your team through coaching, mentoring and training</li>
<li>Establish KPIs for project status reporting and communicate it across Canonical</li>
<li>Drive execution excellence through continuous feedback and improvement</li>
<li>Contribute to the development of strategies to create and maintain high performing teams&nbsp;</li>
<li>Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities, by reviewing customer feedback and participating in customer meetings</li>
</ul>
<h2>What we are looking for in you</h2>
<ul>
<li>Seasoned product management experience in technical domains related to the usage and/or the management of open source software in the cloud native landscape</li>
<li>Experiences designing or managing