Job Description
About the Job
- As the global company behind Ubuntu, with the mission to deliver all of open source, Canonical offers mission-critical support and operations for a wide range of open source technologies to some of the most successful organisations and partners in the world.
- You will thrive in this role if you have a strong business focus, an understanding of the enterprise open source support market, and a passion for solving real user problems.
- You will drive the product definition and product strategy for the full-stack enterprise support - from open infrastructure (OpenStack, Ceph, MAAS), through Ubuntu OS, up to open source applications (Kafka, NGINX, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, and many more).
- Product Managers at Canonical must be confident presenters, speakers and writers, capable of generating interest and excitement in our innovation and products. We are data-driven and content-centric. Product performance is closely measured and this team participates in regular reviews with company leadership.
- You will join a growing team and help shape the message across our suite of products, with a particular focus on enterprise support and services.
Key Responsibilities
- Product manager for enterprise support for a broad scope of open source services, including infrastructure, Ubuntu OS, and applications
- Ensure alignment across stakeholders
- Generate leads by producing compelling, high-quality content
- Deliver sales training and sales collateral
- Be the voice of the customer
- Identify growth opportunities
Requirements
Valued skills and experience:
- Industry knowledge of the enterprise open source support market
- Excellent writing and presentation skills
- Commercial astuteness for pricing and product strategy
- Knowledge of Linux and Ubuntu in data center environments
- Understanding of physical compute - servers, networking, storage
- Understanding of open source applications - such as Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, NGINX, PostgreSQL, Tomcat.