Silicon Alliances Ecosystem Development Manager - Shanghai or Beijing

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.

We are hiring a Silicon Alliance partner manager in Beijing or Shanghai to drive Canonical’s joint initiatives and technical engagements with major semiconductor partners.   The Silicon Alliances Team works with the leading semiconductor companies to combine open source adoption with innovative optimizations to get the most from each new chip. With our semiconductor partners, we develop joint product roadmaps, drive delivery, formulate go-to-market plans and conceptualize new business models, enabling differentiated hardware and robust product life-cycle support while still anchored to best-in-class Ubuntu. The end goal is a frictionless experience to deploy, maintain, and develop on any hardware from cloud to edge.

The successful candidate is someone who is passionate about both hardware and software technology with interest to grow into 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.

Location : This is an office based role in Beijing or Shanghai.  .

The role entails

• Collaborating with product, engineering, and alliance teams at silicon partners to align on open-source strategies.
• Ensuring Canonical’s product requirements are clear and delivery is executed as planned.
• Maintaining relationships with engineering teams to integrate and optimize Ubuntu.
• Acting as the product champion and point of contact for named siliconpartners.
• Coordinating with marketing and product teams on messaging, content creation, and launch plans.
• Creating partner- and customer-facing materials like webinars, presentations, videos, and white papers.
• Driving Ubuntu adoption across partner products, advocating its benefits to stakeholders.
• Leading in making Canonical products the default choice for our partners to build on and accelerating adoption of our technology by end users on their platforms.

What we are looking for in you

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path.
• Bachel