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Senior Customer Technical Program Manager – Software Platforms

NVIDIA · Santa Clara, CA · 2 wk ago
Information TechnologyFull-time

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Customer Program Manager to support the planning and execution of technical and operational programs for key partners and maintain strong customer relationships. As a key member of the Customer Program Management Team, this role will drive collaboration with major enterprise customers, cloud service providers, tier-1 partners, and OEMs.

Responsibilities

  • Define and manage program schedules, deliverables, and turning points aligned with customer and partner roadmaps and requirements.
  • Translate customer requirements into actionable tasks for all functional teams, driving timely issue resolution across engineering, quality, logistics, and sales.
  • Provide horizontal leadership to drive cross-functional program execution, managing high priority issues/concerns, and coordinating globally dispersed teams to ensure clear alignment on objectives.
  • Act as the primary customer interface, facilitating program kick-offs, technical discussions, design reviews, issues/bug tracking and resolution, customer qualification/validation efforts, and status updates throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Drive program execution from design through production deployment, ensuring on time delivery, quality, and customer acceptance.
  • Provide ongoing post-deployment sustaining support, serving as case manager for high priority concerns.
  • Proactively communicate program health, risks, and key issues to both customers, internal partners, and leadership (Hardware, Software, Operations, Business, Quality, Sales, and Product Teams), ensuring transparency and alignment.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of program/project management experience in IT, software, or embedded systems industries.
  • Strong technical background in hardware and/or software product development with experience working closely with OEMs, system integrators, independent software vendors, and CSPs.
  • Consistent track record of leading complex, global programs through full development lifecycles into deployment and production.
  • Excellent program management, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize issues and drive cross-functional alignment.
  • Consistent track record to coordinate with global teams and navigate multi-cultural, multinational business environments.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to distill complex technical concepts for diverse technical and non-technical audiences, from engineers to executives.
  • Willingness to travel as required (up to 10%), and thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments.

Qualifications

  • Prior experience in large-scale enterprise/server platforms.
  • Strong leadership in matrixed collaboration, conflict resolution, and consensus-building.
  • Strong background thriving in dynamic, high-growth environments, with proven adaptability to obscurity, rapid change, and matrixed team structures.

Skills

  • Strong technical background in hardware and/or software product development.
  • Experience working closely with OEMs, system integrators, independent software vendors, and CSPs.
  • Leadership in matrixed collaboration, conflict resolution, and consensus-building.
  • Adaptability to dynamic, high-growth environments.

Benefits

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the world’s most desirable employers!

Pay

Base salary range: $168,000 - $258,750 for Level 4, and $200,000 - $322,000 for Level 5.

Schedule

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 26, 2026.

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