Job Vacancies at Canonical

• You will work closely with product managers and marketing managers on content production and planning. You will ensure quality and consistency, and improve our content strategy to achieve business objectives. You might review product-specific materials to help a product manager tell that story, but your responsibility will be to tell cross-cutting narratives that connect the dots between products, or groups of products. From IoT to the data centre, from cloud to the desktop, Ubuntu and Canonical bring together the best of open source to enable visionaries, entrepreneurs and changemakers to achieve their goals. This team tells that story.

Location: This team works in Europe, Middle East and Africa time zones and positions can be filled anywhere from Cape Town to Tromso.
What your day will look like

• Write content for Canonical.com to deepen understanding of our portfolio
• Review and provide feedback on content to help our product and marketing teams tell engaging stories
• Collaborate to map the buyer's journey and implement a content strategy that optimises that journey
• Maintain an editorial calendar for your content and provide progress updates to the broader team
• Perform content performance audits to understand the effectiveness of your content
• Participate in person in quarterly content planning sessions

What we are looking for

• Demonstrated interest in technology, preferably with open source at heart
• Ability to write authoritative and engaging content - portfolio of written work required
• Appreciation for the written word and the ability to write persuasive copy
• A problem solver: you don't shy away from taking on challenges
• A finisher who sees projects through to completion
• Attention to detail and appreciation for standards
• Appreciation for knowledge sharing and a collaborative attitude
• Practical experience with search engine optimisation
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Applied skills in product marketing
• Applied knowledge of content marketing attribution
• An eye for layout and design

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What you will do:

• Design and deliver web-based systems and SAAS
• Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience
• Enable new processes and improve existing workflows
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Consistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Estimate work, set goals and meet them
• Write project specifications, and epics and understand the risks
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself
• Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations
• Database design and architecture for connected systems
• Developing new and improved working practices for the company
• Providing tooling to support optimised processes
• Love what you do.

Who You Are
To be successful in this team you must be an expert in two or more of the following:

• Backend web service programming in Python and Node.JS
• Solid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Data analytics and statistical analysis
• Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning
• Data visualisation
• The ideal candidate will use their passion for experimentation and analytics to build tomorrow’s tech organisation. This team will help us gain insights into the business and our talent pool, and use those insights to improve the experience of working at Canonical.
• As a Senior Web Engineer at Canonical, you need an analytical, data-driven mind and a passion to connect and make sense of interesting data from APIs. We focus heavily on the collection of metrics, optimising processes, and ways of working across Canonical. You need to demonstrate leadership, excellence, and consistency and will mentor others in the team.

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• As the Engineering Team Leader for the DevOps Centre, your primary responsibility is to the people you lead and support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and finding satisfaction in their career at Canonical. As a lead for software engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software development is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on direction and execution.

What you’ll do

• Lead and develop a team of up-and-coming, junior-level engineers working remotely in global locations
• Hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing code yourself
• Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering and operational teams
• Coordinate with management and external stakeholders or customers
• Advocate modern, agile software development practices
• Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• Global travel up to 10% of time for internal and external events

Who you are

• University degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field
• Advanced level Python programming skills
• You love developing and growing people and can demonstrate a track record of doing it
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• You have experience in leading, coaching and mentoring software developers
• You are organized and want your team to deliver timely, high quality software
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
• You have a thorough understanding of modern infrastructure, including OpenStack or Kubernetes
• You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
• You have experience of operations as well as software development
• You have sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies
• You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking
• You have hands-on experience with software automation
• You are fluent and comfortable in cloud terminology

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Job Summary:

• Canonical is looking for a Product Marketing Manager who will be responsible for developing marketing strategy and go to market plans at a global level for a diverse range of products to support our growth strategy. This is a hands-on, multi-disciplinary and dynamic position, requiring close collaboration with the Product and engineering teams, content team, Sales Teams, as well as other Marketing functions.
• The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. They prefer to work in an environment that emphasises ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to always improve oneself / the team / the organisation. They love to problem solve, get hands on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier.

As a product marketing manager you will:

• Be responsible for go-to-market planning and execution for a range of products
• Lead on content dissemination planning, campaign development and planning for planning product launches.
• You will lead on the development of compelling messaging and positioning that emphasizes business value and connects with target audiences throughout the buying journey
• Conceiving and executing customer base communications and marketing programs to upsell and cross sell into our large base of customers
• Collaborating with demand generation teams, utilizing data and insights to create and improve strategies that drive traffic to our content, optimizing marketing funnels
• Work with the teams to plan event, webinars and support paid and social media promotion
• PR / AR coordination with Comms manager
• Create and publish content (online and print) in line with marketing plans to deliver on campaigns
• Monitoring the competitive landscape to define product positioning that differentiates

The successful Marketing Manager will have :

• A minimum of 5 years in a Product Marketing function focused on enterprise software, SaaS experience preferred
• Knowledge of workflow and process automation, case management and no/low code application development
• Knowledge of enterprise content management / content services would also be ideal
• Ability to think strategically about complex issues, leading to thoughtful recommendations, and action plans
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, and aptitude for forging trusting relationships across diverse, cross-functional teams
• Conversant in go-to-market strategies and methodologies
• Skilled in leading presentations and discussions with industry analysts, business, technical, and sales stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong content marketer
• Proven ability to prioritize and differentiate what matters from the noise, meeting deadlines without sacrificing quality
• Growth mindset - someone who is not afraid to think big and take on risk.