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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 1200+ colleagues in 75+ 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.
Canonical's product management team are technologists who have a passion for delivering products and solutions that help shape market demands while elevating open source software everywhere. This is an application track for a product management position at Canonical on Ubuntu Desktop. Apply here if you excel at leadership, communication, and technical vision, and believe you can drive product strategy for the business and open source community needs of tomorrow.
We believe that open source is transforming the way that enterprises solve their business needs. Although open source has been around for thirty years, it is only now fundamental to every corner of the software landscape. Going forward we believe open source will have an even bigger impact as it moves into specialised vertical markets. Our goal is to make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development. We strive to be the provider of 'most software to most companies', starting with Ubuntu but expanding to cover every class of application on every class of compute. To deliver on that ambition, we select product managers for their intellect and strong drive to advance the open source community. Together, we aim to improve open source quality, outreach, and impact. Our product managers set the vision and the direction to ensure teams deliver the right products in the right markets at the right time. They push the boundaries of the technology landscape to identify and deliver products into new and existing market opportunities.
Ubuntu is the world's favourite Linux, used by developers around the world. Canonical has created a line of products and services that address primary challenges for those developing and deploying software. If you have a deep empathy for the developer and administrator experience as well as a drive to deliver the best open source desktop operating system in the world, then you will love being part of our team.
This is an exceptional opportunity for a competitive technology leader to:
1. Drive the vision of our desktop experience
2. Lead the roadmap of our desktop product
3. Drive our partnership with silicon vendors and OEMs
4. Contribute to the largest Linux open source community
5. Define future business models taking into