Remote, EMEA and the Americas
Ubuntu has become a reference open source platform for many industries,
companies, semiconductor companies and clouds. It is a central pillar of
modern enterprise open source. Many companies want to work with Canonical to
drive specific capabilities or features in Ubuntu. Those engagements need to
be defined, effort estimated, and work delivered.
This role is for a strong technical and commercial leader to run the
engineering estimation and engineering execution, as an overlay across our
entire engineering organization.
Our Engineering Director, Commercial Engagements is responsible for commercial
engagements across our product engineering organisation, to act as leader,
coach, standard-setter and expert, to advise and assess our management ability
in commercial engagements in every product and every team.
The successful candidate will have an understanding of the dynamics of
commercial conversations, and able to represent both Ubuntu and Canonical.
They will also have the ability to develop relevant skills in engineering
directors and managers across the organisation, and facilitate cross-team
planning, estimation, tracking and reporting by those leaders.
This is a cross-team leadership position; individual managers and directors
are accountable for their own estimation, project tracking and delivery, but
this role is to provide best-practice leadership, coaching, advice, assessment
and strategy in the organisation.