Junior Project Manager

Canonical · APAC, LATAM, Canada, USARemotejunior

In short

▸Gestiona proyectos técnicos de software abierto en equipo global distribuido.
▸Coordinas reuniones, riesgos y entregas con clientes y socios, priorizando resultados.
▸Viajas dos veces al año a eventos en persona de 2 semanas (global y distribuido).

Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills

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What they ask for

✓Título universitario en ciencia, ingeniería de software o TI.
✓Excelentes habilidades comunicativas en inglés (escrito y oral).
✓Habilidad para trabajar con múltiples stakeholders y tomar iniciativa.
✓Experiencia liderando proyectos académicos o actividades extracurriculares.
✓Actitud proactiva, resolutiva y orientada a resultados.
✓Disponibilidad para viajar internacionalmente dos veces al año.

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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 1000+ colleagues in 70+ 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. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring a Junior Project Manager Our mission is to streamline and accelerate the adoption of open source across the entire global enterprise technology market. Our customers embrace the Canonical approach to open source for complex projects on bare metal, on the cloud, and at the edge. Our Project Managers are responsible for ensuring project success through owning, driving, communicating and respectfully engaging all stakeholders, valuing integrity and accountability. Within a portfolio of projects with complex and changing software technologies, customer and partner satisfaction is only possible because of exceptional Project Managers who know how to respect and engage all stakeholders. The role entails Ensuring programs and projects are delivered within the schedule, scope, cost, budget and resources expectations Supporting in identifying key technical and project risks and issues and actively put mitigating actions in place Maintaining strong customer focus and work with all key stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes Assisting in conducting regular status meetings and business reviews with customers Supporting with the delivery schedule of critical third party deliverables for the project Advocating to customers the appropriate technologies from Canonical's portfolio What we are looking for in you The successful Junior Project Manager will have solid academic achievement in science, software engineering and/or information technology field, excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and a solution oriented mindset. You will be able to "make things happen" with a professional approach and effective negotiation techniques. You have demonstrated leadership skills in your school or university life. What we offer colleagues We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

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