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What you should know
We checked this opportunity from Canonical. It is listed as Worldwide.
The work location is Home based - Worldwide. Employer-stated compensation: Salary not included in the job posting.
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About this role
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. Global System Integrators (GSI) play a crucial role in Canonical growth plans in the coming 3 years. We are hiring a Partner Sales Director to work closely with Canonical GSI partners throughout their sales cycles and across their sales organizations to facilitate Ubuntu based solutions and opportunities, as well as help GSI build long term digital transformation platforms with Ubuntu stacks and services. Reporting to the VP Global Alliances and Channels, the Partner Sales Director will be responsible for building trusted relationships with partners, increasing Canonical market share and attach rate, evangelizing about the partnership and leading all business interactions from engineers to CxO level. They will own the strategy, the sell-to, sell-through and sell-with motions with the GSI and will animate many customer workshops, sales events, public presentations and executive engagements. The role entails • Build strategic relationships with partners at levels, and stickiness with Ubuntu technology • Deep understanding of Linux and cloud software ecosystem, and open source selling models • Negotiate contracts and commercial business terms • Deep understanding of partner organizations and sales models, in particular with Global System Integrators • Work closely with marketing, sales engineering and product management to deliver on targets, objectives and provide a voice of the partner • Lead executive interlocks between partners and Canonical leadership team • Ability to travel - sometimes internationally - up to 40% of the time What we are looking for in you • Extensive experience in alliance or indirect sales management roles • Extensive experience with OpenStack, virtualization, containers and other Cloud technologies. • Autonomous, disciplined, hands-on, get-it-done mentality • Ability to capture customer requirements Job description: Home based - Worldwide
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About the employer
Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and develops open-source technology used across cloud, enterprise, IoT and AI environments.
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- September 8, 2026
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- Work setup and location
- Remote · Home based - Worldwide
- Who can apply
- Worldwide · Confirmed by source
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