Business Services Team Manager

• Join Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, in a home-based role open worldwide. • Lead efficient travel, logistics, event, scheduling, expense policy, and administration services. • Take on an executive role demanding outstanding coordination, planning, budgeting, procurement, and reporting. • Coordinate large-scale company events four times a year, involving travel for hundreds of people from 80+ countries. • Oversee responsibilities amounting to tens of millions in operational costs. • Lead a team that has a direct impact on every team at Canonical. • Travel up to four times a year for company events lasting up to two weeks.

• Bring an exceptional academic track record from both high school and university. • Hold an undergraduate degree in a technical or business subject. • Show drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations. • Bring strong leadership and management skills. • Demonstrate good judgement in matters involving money, policy, and in-person interactions. • Work effectively in a global, multicultural organisation. • Bring excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, and flexibility. • Work with responsibility, accountability, thoughtfulness, and self-awareness. • Stay results-oriented with a personal drive to meet commitments. • Hold people accountable and defend policy positions with confidence and integrity. • Be able to travel up to four times a year for events lasting up to two weeks.

• Bring travel industry experience. • Bring project management experience. • Bring event management and operations experience. • Bring business and corporate administration experience.

• Lead the team handling travel approvals, logistics, and operations. • Oversee expense review in line with company policies, acting as an independent check on claim approvals. • Apply expense expectations consistently and fairly to the most senior and most junior colleagues alike. • Plan complex company events four times a year, from venue selection through to safety reviews. • Manage company offices providing executive briefing and operational facilities. • Run the global duty of care, health, and safety programmes. • Oversee visa arrangements, travel complications, and unexpected situations across 80+ countries. • Deliver consistent executive assistant services across departments, including scheduling and monthly reports. • Handle delegated approvals for travel and expenses, coordinate with suppliers, and run small projects. • Build personal relationships with team leaders by taking part in every company event.

• Receive a performance-driven annual bonus or commission on top of base pay. • Work in a distributed environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person. • Use a personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year. • Benefit from an annual compensation review and recognition rewards. • Take annual holiday leave, plus maternity and paternity leave. • Access the Employee Assistance Programme. • Travel to new locations to meet colleagues. • Receive Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT, with customers including the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1,200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries, and has been remote-first since its inception in 2004.