Jobs at Canonical

Leads Canonical’s global Legal and Compliance function, advising executives and the Board while building a distributed legal team. Responsibilities include public-market readiness, corporate governance, commercial contracting, intellectual property and open-source licensing, privacy, export controls, anti-bribery, competition and AI regulation. The role also oversees litigation, regulatory engagement, external counsel, M&A, partnerships and financing. It is remote in EMEA time zones, with optional London office work and international travel two to four times annually.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Own product marketing for a Canonical product area, including positioning, messaging, launches, competitive intelligence, sales enablement, customer research, and demand-generation campaigns. The role requires translating technical open source solutions for developer and executive audiences, influencing product, sales, and marketing stakeholders, using data to improve outcomes, and mentoring other marketers. This is a fully remote EMEA role with periodic international team travel.

Designs and owns Canonical’s global internal audit function, including audit infrastructure, risk registers, control testing, process walkthroughs, audit programs, reporting, and remediation tracking. The role partners with stakeholders and senior leadership to identify risks, improve controls, and support scalable global operations. It reports to the CFO and Audit Committee and requires international travel two to four times annually.

Manage multi-country payroll operations, compliance, audits, controls, vendor relationships, payroll analysis, and process improvements. Lead payroll system automation and scalability initiatives while ensuring accurate and timely processing across jurisdictions. Partner with finance, HR, treasury, and external providers, monitor regulatory changes, and mentor a global payroll team in a distributed technology environment.

Embedded in teams to assess organizational health and management effectiveness, using engagement, 360-degree feedback, and direct feedback diagnostics. Designs and drives improvements from diagnosis through implementation, supports managers with performance feedback, contributes to organizational-development playbooks, and learns coaching from senior practitioners. The role is remote across EMEA and the Americas, with travel for internal events up to four times annually.

Develop high-quality, resilient software across Ubuntu and the open source stack, from Linux systems and firmware to cloud, containers, and desktop applications. Contribute to product roadmaps, user experience, code reviews, issue resolution, security, and enterprise requirements. Collaborate remotely with global engineering teams and the open source community, while building expertise in programming languages and Linux systems. Attend international company sprints twice yearly.

Lead marketing initiatives to generate awareness and engagement for products, managing campaigns, collaborating cross-functionally, and optimizing based on data.

This role involves driving revenue growth through strategic relationships and partnerships in Sales and Alliances, focusing on the technology industry.

Join Canonical's Talent Science team to assist in hiring processes using data analysis and behavioral science. Ideal for recent graduates with a psychology background, the role offers opportunities for analytical project work and stakeholder relationships.

Lead the Talent Science team ensuring data-driven processes for recruitment, coaching team members, and delivering strategic project outcomes.

The Business Services Team Manager at Canonical leads travel, logistics, events, and expense management, requiring coordination and effective decision-making while ensuring a high level of accountability across teams.

Define and drive UX strategy for Canonical's cloud networking products. Design interfaces and prototypes (GUI and terminal) for complex networking concepts, create scalable design systems, conduct user research with DevOps/SRE/network teams, mentor designers, and own cross-product working groups to improve network troubleshooting, observability, and configuration experiences at scale.

Provide technical IFRS accounting and reporting support, research and interpret accounting standards, prepare accounting papers and statutory accounts, support audits and month-end reporting, improve financial processes, and help ready the business for IPO.

Lead user research by collecting and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data, run A/B and usability studies, build lightweight prototypes and dashboards, promote research-driven decision making, scale research ops, and train teams to integrate user science across product and engineering.

Lead GTM strategy and product positioning for key products, create messaging and content, run campaigns and launches, analyze market and competitive trends, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive adoption, pipeline growth, and customer engagement.

Lead three engineering teams owning business systems, data lake, and integrations. Oversee development, operations, hiring, manager development, engineering practices, roadmaps, and stakeholder collaboration to deliver business data and analytics solutions.

The Junior Ads Specialist will support paid ads campaigns, monitor performance, develop adtech standards, and drive growth through marketing technology.

Lead content marketing strategy and a team of writers; manage content calendar and quality; collaborate with web/growth engineering for SEO and AI optimization; run quarterly planning, monitor KPIs, and improve processes using analytics and automation to align content with business goals.

Lead regional SDR and BDR managers across AMER, EMEA, and APAC to run inbound and outbound teams, maintain a multi-million dollar pipeline, recruit and develop SDR managers, align with Sales, Marketing and Field Engineering, use data and CRM analytics for forecasting, and build culture and accountability across a remote, distributed sales academy.