Junior Project Manager

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

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.

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 

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.
Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
 Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives
The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues
Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation
Thoughtfulness and self-motivation 
Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments 
Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long