Senior Product Program Manager, System Lpu

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Product Program Manager for System LPU at NVIDIA, focusing on leading technical program management efforts throughout the product lifecycle, from ideation to launch and sustaining. Requires collaboration with cross-functional hardware and software teams, driving priorities, and ensuring product delivery against schedule and achievement targets. Experience in hardware product development and managing complex infrastructure software for hyperscale data centers is highly desirable.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead technical program management efforts for a given product, aligning the team’s efforts throughout the product ideation, development, qualification, manufacturing, launch, and sustaining lifecycles.
  2. Drive priorities to ensure products achieve schedule and achievement targets, while proactively elevating risks and obstacles.
  3. Collaborate closely with a matrixed team of partners from hardware, software, marketing, operations, and other teams to close gaps and resolve issues.
  4. Communicate product status to internal teams, including executive teams.
  5. Apply technical judgment in working with large, cross-functional teams to ensure flawless execution of projects.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant working experience.
  • Ability to partner cross-functionally with thermal, mechanical, and system engineers to define rack architecture specifications, manage design constraints, and drive program milestones from concept through qualification.
  • Experience with rack-level thermal and mechanical design requirements, including airflow management, cooling solutions, and structural integrity for high-density compute and networking systems.
  • Hands-on experience with hardware product development.
  • Proven experience in establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.
  • Solid foundation in project, program, or product management, paired with excellent communication abilities and a background collaborating with technical leadership to create systems, solutions, and products.
  • A culture of continuous learning, ongoing process improvement, and a first-principles approach to creative problem-solving.
  • Experience in influencing decisions and leading teams in a matrix environment.
  • Excellent communication and presentation abilities.

Nice to have

  • 3+ years of experience in successfully delivering products from concept through launch.
  • Deep understanding of product development processes, including complex infrastructure software for hyperscale data centers (coordinating activities between hardware and software organizations is highly desirable).
  • Master’s degree or equivalent professional experience in an engineering or business field.
  • PM Certification/training is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • hardware product development
  • complex infrastructure software for hyperscale data centers