Manager, Developer Relations - Industries

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Manager, Developer Relations focused on driving adoption of NVIDIA's AI and computing platforms through strategic partnerships with software providers and developers. This role involves leading a team, cultivating technical expertise, and guiding partners in integrating NVIDIA's software stack into their products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and develop a high-performing team by setting clear priorities, aligning individual objectives to company strategy, and establishing consistent operating rhythms that drive accountability, accelerate execution, and continuously set the standard on impact and performance.
  2. Partner closely with IBDs, Account Managers, and Solutions Architects across industries to align with senior leadership on the most critical priorities, focusing teams on the highest-impact developers, workloads, and accounts to accelerate adoption of the NVIDIA platform.
  3. Cultivate and sustain deep technical mastery across priority industries, serving as the trusted strategic advisor, industry expert, and problem‑solver across the developer ecosystem. Partner multi-functionally to accelerate adoption of NVIDIA technologies, drive technical innovation, and shape ecosystem‑wide standards and guidelines.
  4. Accelerate critically important workloads by architecting, demonstrating, and integrating the NVIDIA software stack (tools, libraries, SDKs, NIMs, and blueprints) into partner products, platforms, and pipelines to drive performance breakthroughs and scalable adoption.
  5. Guide partners through complex onboarding and integration initiatives by delivering advanced technical resources—such as reference implementations, sample code, and demo pipelines—to accelerate adoption and drive co‑innovation of next‑generation, production‑ready solutions.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • A minimum of 8+ overall years of overall professional experience in the technology industry in software engineering, developer relations, technical partnerships, solutions architect, product management and 4+ years of experience leading a team.
  • Proven experience strategizing, leading, and scaling global developer programs in partnership with major technology organizations and ISVs, driving ecosystem-wide adoption and long-term developer engagement.
  • Extensive experience driving strategic technical teamworks with engineering and product teams—spanning architectural design, in‑depth code and design reviews, technical mentorship, and the delivery of high‑impact technical talks or workshops.
  • Proven ability to design and lead sophisticated, multi‑stakeholder technical engagements—strategically negotiating requirements, resolving multi-functional priorities, and driving alignment across internal and external teams including engineering, product, sales, legal, and marketing.
  • Adept at articulating sophisticated technical concepts to diverse audiences from engineers to executives, with end‑to‑end expertise in architecting, integrating, and co‑commercializing solutions in partnership with strategic ISVs to drive ecosystem adoption and business impact.

Nice to have

  • Extensive hands-on experience architecting and optimizing complex, vertical‑specific solutions that advance performance, scalability, and industry guidelines.
  • Expertise with advanced AI and GPU-accelerated frameworks and integrating them into commercial-grade platforms.
  • Distinguished track record in architecting and delivering systems for real-time processing and ultra‑low‑latency decision‑making at scale.
  • Demonstrated history of defining technical vision and launching new developer ecosystems around accelerated computing or industry verticals.

What the JD emphasized

  • accelerate adoption of NVIDIA’s advanced AI and computing platforms
  • accelerate adoption of the NVIDIA platform
  • accelerate adoption of NVIDIA technologies
  • accelerate adoption and drive co‑innovation of next‑generation, production‑ready solutions
  • optimize large‑scale partner adoption strategies
  • drive ecosystem adoption and business impact
  • Expertise with advanced AI and GPU-accelerated frameworks and integrating them into commercial-grade platforms.
  • distinguished track record in architecting and delivering systems for real-time processing and ultra‑low‑latency decision‑making at scale.