• Application Deadline:
• Position: Manager, Embedded Devices Project Management


• Job Type Full Time , Remote


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Project Management 
  

What your day will look like

• Lead a diverse and distributed team of project managers including performance management and mentoring


• Contribute to the success of our sales team in winning new opportunities


• Promote industry-recognized, best-in-class project management practices


• Lead the evaluation of project management tools, systems, and processes


• Drive resource capacity planning for the team, identifying gaps and actively looking for solutions to ensure efficient and effective team allocation utilization


• Drive continuous improvement and implementation of best practices


• Establish KPIs for project status reporting across Canonical


• Collaborate with cross-team leads to address common challenges across projects


• Drive execution excellence through continuous feedback and improvement


• Review customer feedback and participate in customer meetings


• Develop your project management team through coaching, mentoring, and training


• Serve as the first customer escalation point on critical projects


• Act as a trusted adviser to company leadership, collaborating with stakeholders to enable customer success

What we are looking for in you

• Experience leading diverse, remote project teams in a technology company


• Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects


• Experience hiring, managing teams, and developing skills


• Strong software engineering project management experience


• Strong delivery of commercial technology projects to device manufacturers


• Adept at making things happen while successfully managing risks


• Experience building collaborative internal and external partnerships


• Solid commercial skills; experience in dealing with SoW creation


• Effective negotiator, comfortable in a customer-facing pre-sales role for complex projects


• Able to travel 4-6 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 teams


• PMP/PMI or PRINCE2 practitioner certification

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Experience with the enablement of hardware and devices under Linux and delivery of commercial software technology projects to device manufacturers


• Knowledge of Linux and the wider the Open Source Software community


• Knowledge of Agile project management methodologies is an advantage


• Familiarity with a wide range of technology such as embedded device/IoT software development


• Ideally a Masters degree, MBA, or similar qualification


• Practical experience in automotive, including functional safety, embedded systems, and related software trends


• Automotive industry standards experience (ISO/IEC 27001, TISAX, ASPICE, etc.)