Employment

Project Manager - Taiwan

Posting Date: October 2009
Job Location: Taipei, Taiwan- with regular travel engagements
Job Summary: This role will provide day to day project management for identified projects acting as the liaison between Canonical's engineering teams and Canonical's custom engineering clients. You will be required to create, manage, and maintain client specific project schedules. You will be responsible for managing multiple projects simultaneously. You will be responsible for identifying and making known to relevant parties work items that were not initially part of the contract, SoW or similar business document between Canonical and their custom engineering clients. Finally, the role is responsible for managing the project through its life-cycle and ensuring that the the overall goals for both Canonical and the client are met. International travel is required with principle destinations being the Unites States of America and mainland China. Travel amount and duration will vary based on company and project requirements.
Reports To: OEM Operations Manager

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Support business development and the engineering teams by estimating the work items
• Draft and maintain project specific schedules / project plans
• Obtain client agreement to the project schedule and agreed to work items
• Conduct weekly status meetings with customers for assigned custom engineering projects. Customer status meetings will take the form of teleconferences and at times face to face meetings
• Conduct internal status meetings
• As needed, maintain daily communication with the client via email, shared wikis and other means
• As needed, manage the delivery schedule of critical third party deliverables for the project
• Identify to engineering, business development, and management work items requested by Canonical's custom engineering customers that are not part of an existing contract, SoW or similar business documents
• Managing assigned projects through their life-cycles
• Keep management informed of the status of assigned custom engineering projects

Required skills and experience:

• Degree level education, preferably in a technology field
• Strong experience required of project management in a technology company. Project management experience on custom engineering projects highly preferred
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally
• Knowledge of Linux and the wider Open Source Software community
• Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, in English and Mandarin
• Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation, delivering according to a schedule
• PMI or Prince 2 Certification highly preferred