Software Alliance Ecosystem Manager

Responsibilities

• The Software Alliances team at Canonical works with leading software companies to optimize and enable their products with Ubuntu and other Canonical software, for instance our AI offerings. We develop joint product roadmaps, drive delivery, and formulate go-to-market plans, content and processes, enabling differentiated offerings and robust product life-cycle support anchored to best-in-class Canonical products. Enterprises are able to receive the benefits of open source, securely maintained, and validated solutions from cloud to edge, whether purchased from Canonical, embedded in Alliance partners’ products, or accessed through the cloud.
• The successful candidate is someone who has a background in technology, engineering or product management and is interested in continuing to grow their career in business development. If you are someone who can navigate complex new technical challenges, learn quickly, and architect solutions and strategies across global teams, this challenging role is for you. This role is ideal for early career professionals with up to 7 years of experience.
• Collaborating with product, engineering, alliance and marketing teams at partners to align on open-source strategies.
• Capturing partner requirements, evaluating gaps, and identifying Canonical opportunities.
• Creating partner- and customer-facing materials like reference architectures, joint blueprints, webinars, presentations, videos, and white papers.
• Driving Ubuntu adoption within targeted alliance accounts, advocating its benefits to stakeholders and working with partners on enablement training for their development, delivery, support and commercial teams.
• Influencing alliance partners to build with Canonical technology.
• Up to 25% travel, including internationally, for internal conferences and to drive partnerships in person.
• Experience in software development and system architecture.
• Customer-facing experience in software engineering, product management, business development, technology strategy or similar functions.

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