[Full Remote] Junior Project Manager – EMEA

About the Opportunity

This position is within the Canonical team, a rapidly growing international software company. Canonical is looking for a remote Junior Project Manager with a university degree in STEM (Engineering or Sciences) and up to 3 years of past experiences. You will be responsible for managing complex projects, ensuring stakeholder satisfaction, and project success. Benefits include a training budget, an annual bonus, and travel opportunities. The selection process will be managed entirely by Canonical.

About Company

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux, with a passionate global community of 200,000+ contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others', embodying the generosity at the heart of open source.

Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from connected devices to mainframes, the platform used on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of productive developers. Canonical is proud to be the developer of the fastest-growing Linux in the world.

Responsibilities

• Owning, driving, and communicating project success
• Engaging and respecting all stakeholders
• Valuing integrity and accountability

About You

The successful Project Manager will have solid IT project management experience in a software engineering and/or information technology field. You should possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, experience leading cross-cultural, remote, and global project teams and customers, Agile expertise, and Project Management certification.

If you have experience in areas such as Enterprise IT Programs, Process Improvement, and Software Engineering Project Management, we'd love to hear from you.

Eligibility

Key qualifications include:

• Experience leading diverse, remote project teams
• Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects
• Ability to travel internationally up to 6-8 weeks a year
• Degree in Computer Science or STEM field, ideally with an MBA or similar qualification

Benefits

• Geographically based compensation and performance reviews
• Performance-driven annual bonus
• Personal learning and development budget
• Recognition rewards and annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations for company events