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INTRODUCTION
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 1000+ colleagues in 70+ 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.
ROLE
We are hiring a Customer Success - Team Manager. To support Canonical's growth, we are expanding our CSM team globally and recruiting leaders to support and drive our Customer Success teams regionally. We consider our Customer Success operations an exceptional tool to sustain revenue retention and growth, placing excellence in delivering outstanding customer services in the new technologies sector. As such, we are looking for exceptional candidates with proven track records in Customer Success management and an obvious passion for new technologies. You will enjoy this role if you are organised, persistent, analytical, diplomatic, a listener, hard-working, and determined to grow your skills and teams. As a lead, you will provide mentoring, coaching in post-sales account management and feedback to team members. You will play a crucial role in proactively identifying areas of improvement and implementing process change, driving high-performing teams. Comfortable dealing with ambiguity you will be equip to quickly adapt to change. Collaboration with other teams is also vital to this role to enhance the overall customer experience. Your key responsibility will be to analyze regional performance metrics, identify trends and opportunities for improvement, and implement changes to increase efficiency and achieve business objectives. You will work in close collaboration with the Global Head of Customer Success to drive results. We engage with a diverse customer base and follow a diverse set of motions to provide the appropriate and required level of focus for every customer. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the ability to pivot right across this customer base regardless of culture, location or focus.
LOCATION
These opportunities are available in the APAC and AMER regions and are remote positions.
Responsibilities
- Strategic planning and analysis: preparing communication plans, team meetings, and other messages shared in broader management forums, setting yourself and your team up for success. Regularly reviewing key performance indicators and metrics is your baseline. You will develop strategies to enhance customer engagement, improve retention rates, drive up-sells or cross-sells where appropriate, and ultimately increase customer success.
- Customer interactions and support to your team: resolve escalated customer issues requiring expertise or intervention ensuring timely resolution.
- Team management: passionate about guiding and supporting your team members, helping them navigate complex customer situations, improve their skills, and achieve their goals. Conducting regular performance reviews with team members you will also help identifying areas for improvement/development as well as celebrating excellence, recognising team achievements, and setting goals for individual growth.
- Cross-functional collaboration: collaboration with other departments, such as Sales, Marketing, Product development, and Support, is essential. This ensures alignment on customer needs, feedback sharing, and coordinated efforts to drive customer success. You will establish trustworthy channels of communication across the board.
- Documentation and reporting: you are allowed to be creative! While building content with your team and your manager, you will also ensure the changes are well documented, instilling quality and attention to detail in all you do.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent academic results at school and university
- Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Business, Communication or STEM subject
- Knowledge and passion for Customer Success, revenue management and technology, experience in SaaS or software industries
- Track record of bringing exceptional Customer Success experience results
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific
- Creative problem-solving and cross-team collaboration
- Experience growing and developing a CSM team
- Hands-on approach to using data to drive team activities and continuous improvement
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Whilst English is our business language, proficiency (both written and spoken) in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, or French will be valued.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
- Priority Pass for travel
ABOUT CANONICAL
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
INTRODUCTION
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 1000+ colleagues in 70+ 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.
ROLE
We are hiring a Customer Success - Team Manager. To support Canonical's growth, we are expanding our CSM team globally and recruiting leaders to support and drive our Customer Success teams regionally. We consider our Customer Success operations an exceptional tool to sustain revenue retention and growth, placing excellence in delivering outstanding customer services in the new technologies sector. As such, we are looking for exceptional candidates with proven track records in Customer Success management and an obvious passion for new technologies. You will enjoy this role if you are organised, persistent, analytical, diplomatic, a listener, hard-working, and determined to grow your skills and teams. As a lead, you will provide mentoring, coaching in post-sales account management and feedback to team members. You will play a crucial role in proactively identifying areas of improvement and implementing process change, driving high-performing teams. Comfortable dealing with ambiguity you will be equip to quickly adapt to change. Collaboration with other teams is also vital to this role to enhance the overall customer experience. Your key responsibility will be to analyze regional performance metrics, identify trends and opportunities for improvement, and implement changes to increase efficiency and achieve business objectives. You will work in close collaboration with the Global Head of Customer Success to drive results. We engage with a diverse customer base and follow a diverse set of motions to provide the appropriate and required level of focus for every customer. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the ability to pivot right across this customer base regardless of culture, location or focus.
LOCATION
These opportunities are available in the APAC and AMER regions and are remote positions.
Responsibilities
- Strategic planning and analysis: preparing communication plans, team meetings, and other messages shared in broader management forums, setting yourself and your team up for success. Regularly reviewing key performance indicators and metrics is your baseline. You will develop strategies to enhance customer engagement, improve retention rates, drive up-sells or cross-sells where appropriate, and ultimately increase customer success.
- Customer interactions and support to your team: resolve escalated customer issues requiring expertise or intervention ensuring timely resolution.
- Team management: passionate about guiding and supporting your team members, helping them navigate complex customer situations, improve their skills, and achieve their goals. Conducting regular performance reviews with team members you will also help identifying areas for improvement/development as well as celebrating excellence, recognising team achievements, and setting goals for individual growth.
- Cross-functional collaboration: collaboration with other departments, such as Sales, Marketing, Product development, and Support, is essential. This ensures alignment on customer needs, feedback sharing, and coordinated efforts to drive customer success. You will establish trustworthy channels of communication across the board.
- Documentation and reporting: you are allowed to be creative! While building content with your team and your manager, you will also ensure the changes are well documented, instilling quality and attention to detail in all you do.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent academic results at school and university
- Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Business, Communication or STEM subject
- Knowledge and passion for Customer Success, revenue management and technology, experience in SaaS or software industries
- Track record of bringing exceptional Customer Success experience results
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific
- Creative problem-solving and cross-team collaboration
- Experience growing and developing a CSM team
- Hands-on approach to using data to drive team activities and continuous improvement
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Whilst English is our business language, proficiency (both written and spoken) in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, or French will be valued.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
- Priority Pass for travel
ABOUT CANONICAL
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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- Manufacturing134
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote finance team lead jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related business field
- 3 to 7 years of progressive experience in finance or accounting roles
- Demonstrated experience managing or mentoring a team of analysts or accountants
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, including financial modeling and pivot analysis
- Experience with ERP or FP&A systems such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, or Workday
- CPA, CFA, or CMA certification preferred for senior-level or specialized positions
Tips for Your Remote Finance Team Lead Job Search
Quantify your team oversight experience
Hiring managers for finance team lead roles want to see the size of the team you managed and the dollar value of budgets or forecasts you owned. Add those specifics to your resume bullets so reviewers can immediately gauge your scope of responsibility.
Highlight your financial systems fluency
Most finance team lead postings list specific ERP or FP&A platforms like SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, or Adaptive Insights. Name every system you have used in your experience section, not just the skills list, so applicant tracking systems surface your resume consistently.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists finance team lead openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by reporting structure
Finance team lead roles vary widely depending on whether you report to a controller, CFO, or VP of Finance. Read each posting carefully for reporting lines and filter toward structures where your experience aligns most closely, since interviewers probe that fit directly.
Prepare a cross-functional leadership example
Interviewers for finance team lead positions almost always ask how you have partnered with non-finance departments on budgets, audits, or cost initiatives. Prepare one detailed example that names the department, the problem, and the measurable outcome you delivered together.
Negotiate using scope, not just title
When you receive an offer, ask about the number of direct reports, budget ownership, and whether the role has a defined upgrade path to manager or director. Those scope details affect your market value more durably than the title printed on the offer letter.
Remote Finance Team Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote finance team lead job?
Target companies that already run distributed teams, since they hire remotely by default and know how to onboard someone they never meet in person. Remote finance team lead employers screen hard for self-direction and clear written communication on top of the core skills, so show evidence you can own work without someone over your shoulder. Apply to the openings above that match your experience.
Which companies hire remote finance team leads?
Employers currently hiring remote finance team leads include Deloitte, State Farm, and Stanley Black & Decker, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Remote-first firms and large companies running distributed teams post the most remote finance team lead roles.
Can you get a remote finance team lead job with no experience?
Yes, but it is harder than an on-site role, because remote work expects you to operate independently from the start. Entry-level remote finance team lead openings do exist, especially at remote-first companies, and a portfolio of real work helps more than a long resume. Applying broadly to the roles that fit improves your odds.
Do you need a degree for remote finance team lead jobs?
Not always. Many employers hire remote finance team leads on demonstrated skills and prior work rather than a specific degree, though some larger companies still prefer one. Showing relevant results matters more than a credential for most remote finance team lead roles.
Which industries hire the most remote finance team leads?
Remote finance team lead roles concentrate in Manufacturing, Technology & Software, and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These sectors run distributed teams and hire finance team leads remotely most consistently.
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