Partner Marketing Manager Home Based - Americas

Partner Marketing Manager

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.

The Role Of A Partner Marketing Manager At Canonical

Canonical is looking for a channel marketing manager who will be responsible for developing our strategic relationships with a set of global partners. Canonical partners with the leading companies in technology across public cloud, silicon, and hardware vendors. As our business increasingly depends on partners, the scope of our partnership grows every year. We are thus looking for an individual, who will not only drive successful marketing activities with our partners but also shape our partner programs.

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 continually improve oneself / the team / the organization. They love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier.

This role reports to the Head Of Channel Marketing.

Location : This role will be based remotely in the Americas region.

What Your Day Will Look Like

• Build joint go-to-market plans with partners, from messaging to pipeline generation
• Create and deliver integrated campaigns, product launches, webinar series, industry announcements and core content in collaboration with partners.
• Package all of Canonical's product offerings and educational material creatively, from bare metal, AI, Kubernetes...
• Continue to grow Canonical's partner ecosystem by delivering partner value
• Continue to develop Canonical's partner activities to scale our partner programs

What We Are Looking For In You

Nice-to-have skills

What We Offer Colleagues

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.