Remote Job at Canonical Nigeria – 4 Positions

Application is invited from interested and qualified candidate to apply for Remote Job at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.​ We are recruiting candidates with tech skills and product management skills.

Canonical Nigeria 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.

Applications are invited from interested and qualified candidates to apply for job at Canonical Nigeria.

Accountant

Specifications:

• Full Time – Remote Job
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 
• Location: Remote | Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos
• Category: Tech Jobs
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Description:

• If you are passionate about the technology industry and want to work for a company that aligns with your interests, we might be the place for you! Canonical, and our world class Ubuntu product, attracts some of the leading talent from around the world.
• Come and work with exceptional people and advance your career in Finance! 
• Our Finance team is growing and it’s a really exciting time to join the team.
• We are looking for bright, motivated people who have a passion for making a difference. You will be seeking an opportunity to drive process improvements and change, input your ideas and truly contribute to a highly productive team. 
• We are looking for an exceptional Accountant with IFRS experience to help us ready the business for public market scrutiny through our planned IPO. 
• The right candidate will have domain expertise and a passion for IFRS.  

What your day will look like

• Assist in the month end reporting process to deliver timely and accurate information
• Have full responsibility for a part of the ledger processes relevant to your strengths
• Assist with the year end audit process and statutory reporting
• Support the finance team’s wider plans to prepare for an IPO
• Improve the efficiency of financial processes and procedures and monitor compliance
• Share knowledge between team members to ensure cover is available when needed
• Actively develop your own skills to ensure current knowledge of applicable standards and regulations
• Establish strong relationships with key colleagues outside the wider finance team.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Exceptional academic track record and subsequent career performance
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or equivalent
• Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CPA, etc.)
• Experience at a large public accounting firm, or public multinational corporate accounting department preferred
• NetSuite or similar enterprise grade systems experience
• Willingness to travel up to four times per year.

Benefits:

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Accounts Receivable Clerk

Specifications:

• Full Time – Remote Job
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 
• Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos
• Category:  Tech Jobs
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Description:

We have an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Receivable Clerk to join our growing team. If you are passionate about the technology industry and want to work for a company that aligns with your interests, we might be the place for you! Canonical, and our world-class Ubuntu product, attracts some of the leading talent from around the world. Come and work with exceptional people and kick-start your career in Finance!

Our Finance team is growing and it’s a really exciting time to join the team. We are looking for bright, truly motivated people who have a passion for making a difference. You will be seeking an opportunity to drive process improvements and change, input your ideas, grow your career and truly contribute to the team.

Your role will include ensuring accuracy of the A/R ledgers, processing customer invoices in a timely and accurate manner, registering customer payments, dealing with queries effectively and efficiently and maintaining compliance with processes and procedures. You will learn the fundamentals of how finance works in an organisation.

In return, we will provide you with ample opportunity for career development, including offering you support for continuing education and the pursuit of professional Accounting certifications. You will report directly to our Global Controller who will help you develop into the role and guide you through your learnings.

The role entails

• Maintain accuracy of our A/R ledgers and reconciliation of accounts
• Manage our customer data (names, addresses, etc.), validate and gain approval for new accounts, and maintain our audit record of customer data changes and approvals
• Process our customer invoices in a timely and accurate manner, including entry of invoices into accounting systems and maintain our files in a tidy and organised manner
• Efficiently resolve any problems prior to raising and issue of invoice
• Implement and comply with the Canonical credit control policy
• Maximise cash collection through the effective collection of debts and maintain records to track debt collection through to conclusion
• Ensure payments are received in line with contractual terms
• Help with our month end processes: bank reconciliations and balance sheet reconciliations
• Resolve questions/issues, escalating when appropriate in a timely manner
• Maintain compliance with processes and procedures, recommend corrective action when identified and maintain suitable records to demonstrate compliance

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Qualifications and Requirements:

• Exceptional education achievements in an Accounting or Finance subject
• Excellent spreadsheet skills, including pivots, lookups etc.
• Excellent attention to detail, with great organization skills and the ability to meet deadlines
• Great communication skills that you will use when connecting directly with our customers
• A passion for the world of Finance with ambition to progress your career
• Experience using an enterprise level accounting system 

Benefits:

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Channel Partner Sales Executive

Specifications:

• Full Time – Remote Job
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 
• Location: Remote | Abroad. See other Jobs in Lagos
• Category:  Tech Jobs
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Description:

Canonical is growing its channel sales team to capitalize on rapidly growing demand from channel partners, leveraging their expertise and connections to bring open source technology to organizations across a multitude of industries.  

The role requires a mix of both farming and hunting capabilities. The successful candidate will be responsible for achieving assigned annual growth quotas. 

They should be able to identify, prospect, and engage reseller and distributor partners to build and maintain relationships and grow Canonical’s business within the assigned territory.

The successful candidate must be comfortable owning and leading initiatives in an unstructured, startup-like environment.  This individual must be able to sell open source, cloud, virtualization, and technical software solutions.

Although the role is focused primarily on reseller and distributor channel partners, the successful candidate must be capable of and comfortable with initial customer discovery calls and presentations as appropriate.  

The Role Entails

• Develop and execute channel strategy for distributors and resellers within the assigned territory
• Increase awareness of Canonical as a lead player in Open Source and Cloud (Private, Hybrid, Multi, and Public models) 
• Identify and recruit new potential partners in assigned territory
• Leverage personal network and prospecting skills to engage new partners and build on Canonical’s already-successful relationships
• Guide partners through onboarding and enablement 
• Develop mutually beneficial go-to-market plans and commitments with partners
• Arrange and execute sales and pre sales trainings to these resellers
• Drive and manage channel pipeline through recurring partner interactions
• Support partner’s satisfaction and act as trusted advisor and point of contact
• Maintain a regularity/frequency of contact with priority resellers and distributors.  

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Bachelor’s level degree, preferably in a technology field
• Experience in software or technology sales from the specified market
• Fluency in English
• An understanding of open source, Linux and Ubuntu
• A self starter with a proven track record of achieving sales targets
• Detail oriented with strong follow-up skills
• Effective negotiating skills with ability to close sales
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills (written and verbal)
• Productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation
• Mature approach to long-term relationship development with customers
• The ability to represent the company at external events
• Start-up experience would be an advantage

Benefits:

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Business Development Representative

Specifications:

• Full Time – Remote Job
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 
• Location: Remote | Abroad. See other Jobs in Lagos
• Category:  Tech Jobs
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Description:

Canonical is a remote-first global company that publishes Ubuntu and open-source enterprise solutions for cloud, developer, IoT and AI. Ubuntu is the fastest growing Linux distribution and ranks as the number #1 OS  in the cloud.

In partnership with Google, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft, Canonical helps companies become more agile, productive and adopt new technologies faster. Examples of customer success include AI, Blockchain, IoT, Advanced Robotics and self-driving cars, where Ubuntu is the preferred development platform.

The role of a Business Development Representative at Canonical

Canonical is profitable and growing. We consider our sales development organization to be the best technology sales academy in the market, and as such, we select exceptional and ambitious candidates to join our team. You will enjoy this role if you are organized, persistent, charismatic and hard-working. You will need to be interested in tech and its business implications. In this role, you will collaborate with a regional sales and marketing team, and your primary objective will be to find customer projects that fit our product lines and spread the good name of Canonical across multiple different industries and geographies.

The role entails

• Execute outbound sales & marketing campaigns
• Research information about prospective customers and market trends 
• Generate high-quality leads for Senior Sellers to fuel a multi-million dollar pipeline
• Own and close SMB opportunities within your designated territory
• Collaborate across multiple teams and senior stakeholders to drive results 
• Help define the processes and policies for the team
• Travel to events and conferences worldwide, presenting on booths and driving face-to-face marketing and sales opportunities

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Demonstrated success in SDR or outbound sales, with a track record of exceeding annual quotas and consistently driving qualified pipeline growth
• Experience navigating prospective accounts from and into a senior executive level to identify new customer opportunities
• Experience in enterprise software or technology sales
• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Passion for business and technology
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement – curious, flexible, scientific
• Creative problem solving and cross team collaboration
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
• Verbal and written communication and negotiation skills 
• Result driven with an over-achiever spirit
• Persistence & perseverance
• Growth mindset – people from our team develop into all departments within the sales organization (Channel, IoT, Enterprise Sales, etc)
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long

Benefits:

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Alliances & Channels Leader:

Specifications:

• Full Time – Remote Job
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 
• Location: Remote | Global. See other Jobs in Lagos
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Description:

We have new senior leadership opportunities in our Global Alliances and Channels organisations, to lead business development and partnership with some of the most important actors in the global technology sector. As the publisher of Ubuntu and a leading provider of open source to major technology firms globally, Canonical works across a broad partner ecosystem that includes global system integrators, value-added resellers, regional distributors, independent software vendors, independent hardware vendors, silicon companies, public clouds and other strategic technology brands.

These partners shape the platforms, solutions, marketplaces, hardware and delivery motions through which enterprises adopt open source at scale. We are looking for exceptional partner leaders who can build durable, mutually valuable relationships, develop joint solutions, drive global go-to-market programmes, and convert partner potential into measurable customer impact, revenue growth and market expansion for Canonical.

Opportunities are available for both people leaders and senior individual contributors. In these roles, you will lead, build or scale one or more strategic partner motions for Canonical, either by managing a team or by directly driving high-impact partner initiatives. You will work closely with partners throughout their sales, product, delivery and executive planning cycles to make Canonical their trusted partner for enterprise open source solutions. Depending on your experience and Canonical’s business priorities, your focus may include Channels, GSI, ISV, IHV/OEM, Silicon, Cloud or cross-ecosystem partnerships.

Our Alliances and Channels teams build trusted relationships with partners at executive level, increase Canonical market share and attach rate, evangelise the partnership, and lead business interactions from engineers to CxO level. This role will own strategy, sell-to, sell-through and sell-with motions across assigned partners or sectors, as well as promotion of partner-related activities, from campaigns, enablement and executive engagement, to strategic opportunities and partner events.

Location: These are globally remote positions.

The role entails

• Own and drive partner strategy, forecast, bookings and revenues for Canonical across one or more indirect routes to market
• Lead and evolve a team or strategic partner portfolio towards accelerated revenue growth and market impact
• Build strategic relationships with global and regional partners at executive levels
• Design and execute joint go-to-market plans with partners, sales, product management, product marketing and engineering teams
• Develop partner capability through sales engagement, technical enablement, joint marketing and disciplined business planning
• Guide our offering from product management, to product marketing, and scale it through the support of our global sales organisation
• Establish operating cadence, pipeline governance and data-driven accountability across complex partner relationships

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in alliance, channel, partner, ecosystem or indirect sales management roles
• Experience in one or more of GSIs, VARs, distributors, ISVs, IHVs/OEMs, silicon, public cloud, marketplaces or strategic technology alliances
• Deep commercial experience encompassing revenue, margins, pipeline, forecasting and partner economics
• Proven leadership and presentation skills, with the ability to engage confidently from engineer to CxO level
• Ability to build trusted executive relationships while aligning product, sales, marketing, engineering and operations teams
• Insight into open source, Ubuntu, enterprise infrastructure, cloud, AI, security and Canonical’s competition and opportunities
• Track record of data-driven decision-making and disciplined execution across complex, global relationships
• An autonomous, disciplined, hands-on, get-it-done mentality
• An exceptional academic track record from high school and university.
• Business level written and spoken English.
• Sincere personal motivation aligned with our mission.
• International travel 2-4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long.

In addition we expect that you will match our values, by being:

• Precise, taking care to deliver correctness and clarity.
• Reliable, delivering high quality work that builds trust and confidence.
• Accessible, collaborating to build products and systems that are usable.
• Adroit, blending enthusiasm, knowledge, adaptability, style and character.

Benefits:

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

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Cloud Engineering Manager

Specifications:

• Full Time – Remote Job
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 
• Location: Remote | Global. See other Jobs in Lagos
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Description:

We are hiring an Engineering Manager …

This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Cloud technologies to build a career with Canonical and drive the success with those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products.  If you have an affinity for open source development and a passion for technology, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

The BootStack team designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers. From Kubernetes to OpenStack and everything in-between, you’ll be working with the latest technology in a fast-paced engineering environment. As a Cloud Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will be responsible for managing the engineers that oversee day-to-day Managed Service of customer environments, including customer service management, managed services operations and consistent product improvement engineering. Collaboration with customers, product engineering, and operations is critical to success.

The role entails

• Manage a growing engineering team to optimise the quality and velocity of both development and operations
• Identify and measure team health indicators
• Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes
• Represent the BootStack team with respect to stakeholders, customers, and external teams
• Ensure proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables
• Work to meet service level agreements with customer deployments around the globe
• Deliver quality managed services in a consistent, timely manner

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Bachelors (or equivalent) education in a technology field
• Proven track record of professional experience of either software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar and/or managing operations teams
• Proven experience with OpenStack
• Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality
• Experience with Linux system administration, Ubuntu/Debian a plus
• Strong communication and cooperation skills
• Experience with agile software development methodologies
• Experience working in and managing distributed teams
• Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems
• Experience with cloud topologies and technologies
• Travel to team and company events and customer meetings, roughly 20% or less

Benefits:

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

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Content marketing lead

Specifications:

• Full Time – Remote Job
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 
• Location: Remote | Global. See other Jobs in Lagos
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Description:

We are looking for an outstanding content marketing lead to lead our content efforts and manage a team of brilliant writers and content strategists. Canonical has a robust portfolio of open source products and offers support for a wide range of open source technologies. This role is for someone who cares deeply about narrative quality and wants to elevate our brand positioning. It requires process discipline and creative smarts, leadership skills and performance-driven strategy to ensure our content aligns with our business objectives. 

The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. They would love to gain experience optimizing content processes, coaching others on their narrative skills and building brand authority. They enjoy learning and improving themselves, the team and the organization. They problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier. To succeed in this role, the candidate must be metrics-driven, highly organized and skilled at team development, capacity planning and cross-functional collaboration.  

This role reports to the Director of Communications. 

What your day will look like

• Develop and execute a content marketing strategy that aligns with our business goals, SEO and brand. 
• Manage our content calendar end to end, ensuring content is efficiently produced with minimum friction and process clarity.
• Ensure content quality, consistency and brand alignment in everything we produce. 
• Collaborate with our web and growth engineering teams to optimize content for search and AI engines, building on proven SEO or GEO expertise. 
• Supervise quarterly content planning sessions and work closely with content specialists, product management and marketing to optimize content plans.
• Monitor and report on KPIs for our content program and use analytics tools to identify improvement opportunities. 
• Align messaging to ensure integrated campaign support across channels, working closely with our marketing, product and brand teams.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• At least 5 years of work experience in content or related roles, preferably at  technology companies, with 2+ years of experience as a manager or team lead. 
• Proven experience creating authoritative and engaging content. Portfolio of written work required.
• Applied knowledge of GEO and SEO, experience with relevant tools and SEO-driven content calendars. 
• Excellent project management and interpersonal skills with the ability to create highly efficient processes for content production and reuse. 
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or a relevant discipline. 
• Someone who is passionate about technology and open source. 
• A problem solver: you don’t shy away from taking on challenges and see projects through to completion. 
• Attention to detail and appreciation for standards: you value quality and accuracy but can adapt quickly when the need arises.

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