Technical Program Manager, Higher Education and Research

NVIDIA
Santa Clara, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 136,000 - 258,750 annuallyFunction: Program & Project Management (PMO)Experience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Cross-functional collaboration","Operational excellence","Executive communication","Strategic thinking","Stakeholder management"]

Lead scalable technical programs across the global higher education and research ecosystem by driving university engagement, curriculum adoption, and grant operations. Define governance, success metrics, and execution models; scale NVIDIA Tech Days; and coordinate academic investments like lab sponsorships and education rebate operations. Partner closely with internal teams and NVIDIA field staff to translate insights from faculty, researchers, and students into measurable outcomes, adoption growth, and future platform direction.

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Job Summary

Lead scalable technical programs across the global higher education and research ecosystem by driving university engagement, curriculum adoption, and grant operations. Define governance, success metrics, and execution models; scale NVIDIA Tech Days; and coordinate academic investments like lab sponsorships and education rebate operations. Partner closely with internal teams and NVIDIA field staff to translate insights from faculty, researchers, and students into measurable outcomes, adoption growth, and future platform direction.
Location: Santa Clara, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Program & Project Management (PMO)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define program strategy, governance, operational performance indicators, success metrics, and execution models.
  • •Scale NVIDIA Tech Days for universities as a repeatable global program, covering prioritization, content development, execution standards, measurement, and continuous improvement.
  • •Support curriculum integration with universities and faculty to incorporate NVIDIA open models, learning content, and guest speakers into undergraduate and graduate coursework.
  • •Coordinate strategic academic investments, including discrete university lab sponsorship operations and NVIDIA education rebate program operations.
  • •Track and communicate outcomes such as program reach, library adoption, open-source contributions, paper citations, and infrastructure utilization; identify gaps and scale successful pilots across regions and research domains.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 136,000 - 258,750 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in business, program management, education, public policy, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • •5+ years of program or project management experience.
  • •Extensive experience in product/program management, strategic operations, partnerships, or grant administration in technology, higher education, research, or comparable environments.
  • •Track record leading sophisticated, cross-functional programs across teams, timelines, dependencies, and global regions; able to operationalize and scale processes across organizations.
  • •Experience working with universities, academic faculty and researchers, student education programs, or sponsored research; includes a practical understanding of technology adoption in institutions.
Experience:5+ yearsHigher educationResearchTechnologyGrantsPartnerships
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Cross-functional collaborationOperational excellenceExecutive communicationStrategic thinkingStakeholder management
Tech Stack:CUDA-XCUDA-X librariesOpen modelsOpen-source modelsAIMachine learning

Company Brief

NVIDIA
Designs and manufactures GPUs, AI accelerators, and system-on-chip products for gaming, data centers, professional visualization, and automotive markets, enabling advanced graphics, AI, and high-performance computing solutions worldwide.
Industry: Electronics Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 1993
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