Technical Program Manager, Higher Education and Research

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking an expert Technical Program Manager to scale strategic programs across the global higher‑education and research ecosystem. The role leads university engagement, curriculum adoption, and grant operations that enable researchers, faculty, and students to build with NVIDIA advanced computing platforms, publicly available models, and CUDA‑X libraries. You will work across NVIDIA and with leading academic institutions worldwide to turn high‑impact collaborations into repeatable, measurable programs.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy, governance, operational performance indicators, success metrics, and execution models.
• Scale NVIDIA Tech Days for universities as a repeatable global program, including institution prioritization, content development, execution standards, measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Support curriculum integration collaborations with leading universities and faculty advocates to incorporate NVIDIA open models, learning content, and guest speakers into undergraduate and graduate coursework.
• Coordinate strategic academic investments, including operations for discrete university lab sponsorships and NVIDIA’s education rebate program.
• Collaborate with NVIDIA field staff—Developer Relations, Account Managers, and Solution Architects—to ensure flawless, consistent, and excellent program execution globally.
• Partner internally with NVIDIA Developer Programs, Deep Learning Institute, and product teams to bring the best of NVIDIA to lighthouse universities.
• Synthesize insights from faculty, researchers, and students to help build future NVIDIA platforms, libraries, and educational content.
• Track and communicate outcomes such as program reach, library adoption, open‑source contributions, paper citations, and infrastructure utilization.
• Identify ecosystem gaps, test new program concepts, and scale successful pilots across regions and research domains.

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 or program management, strategic operations, partnerships, or grant administration within technology, higher education, research, or a comparable environment.
• Demonstrated success leading sophisticated, cross‑functional programs spanning multiple teams, timelines, dependencies, and global regions.
• Proven track record of developing, operationalizing, and scaling new processes and initiatives across organizations and geographies.
• Experience working with universities, academic faculty and researchers, student education programs, or sponsored research, with a practical understanding of how institutions evaluate and adopt technology.
• Strong operational excellence, including program governance, strategic execution, performance metrics, and executive‑level reporting.
• Ability to collaborate across technical and non‑technical teams, influence partners without direct authority, and translate sophisticated concepts into clear, actionable plans.
• Outstanding communication skills, especially executive‑facing communications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AI and machine learning, accelerated computing, open models, and NVIDIA technologies such as CUDA‑X libraries.
• Experience developing curriculum integrations, teaching kits, or reusable technical enablement for faculty and students.
• Post‑graduate qualification in business, education, computer science, engineering, or a comparable area, or equivalent experience.
• Experience using data, automation, or AI tools to improve program execution, reporting, and cross‑NVIDIA communication.
• Experience working across multiple regions and university systems.

Pay

Base salary range: $136,000 – $212,750 USD for Level 3; $168,000 – $258,750 USD for Level 4. Salary is determined based on location, experience, and internal parity. Eligibility for equity and benefits is included.

Benefits

Eligible for equity participation and NVIDIA’s comprehensive benefits package.