[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.

About Company

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. We're also the publishers of Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000+ contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - this is the future of open source, which is why we're proud to be the developers of the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed. If you're interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.

Responsibilities

• Ensure project success through owning, driving, communicating, and respectfully engaging all stakeholders
• Value integrity and accountability
• Lead cross-cultural, remote, and global project teams and customers
• Utilize Agile expertise and Project Management certification

About You

The successful Project Manager will have solid IT project management experience in a software engineering and/or information technology field, excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and experience leading cross-cultural, remote and global project teams and customers. You will be able to "make things happen" with a professional approach and effective negotiation techniques. You have Agile expertise and Project Management certification. Additional skills that you might also bring include leading diverse, remote project teams, experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects, hiring, managing teams, and helping to develop team skills, software engineering and IT project management, driving project success while managing risks, experience in building collaborative internal and external partnerships, solid commercial skills, experience in dealing with contracts, effective negotiator, comfortable in customer facing roles for complex projects, degree level education in Computer Science or STEM field, ideally also an MBA or similar qualification, able to travel 6-8 weeks a year, up to two weeks at a time, sometimes internationally, flexibility to work non-standard hours when required, in support of a worldwide sales and project team.

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