Product Manager - Open Models

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks an experienced Product Manager / Technical Partner Manager to collaborate with community model builders and align open-model initiatives with go-to-market strategies. You’ll track trends, assess ecosystem impact, and help craft model-focused messaging and docs.

Based in Santa Clara, this role requires hands-on knowledge of Hugging Face, PyTorch, and related inference tools, plus strong cross-functional leadership and clear communication across marketing, engineering, and executives.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in product management or technical partner management.
• BS or MS in engineering / CS; MBA a plus.
• Knowledge of community model ecosystem including Hugging Face, PyTorch.
• Comfortable reviewing Python code used in presentations, demos, and articles.
• Experience creating marketing and social media content.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, including MS Office and markdown, with ability to translate partner requirements and internal priorities.
• Thrives in a cross-functional organization, collaborating across teams and functions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with community model builders to ensure model support, early access collaboration, and go-to-market alignment.
• Track trends in the open model space and assess differentiators and ecosystem impact of new releases.
• Support product marketing in crafting model-specific messaging and documentation—blogs, whitepapers, case studies, and presentations highlighting NVIDIA’s optimizations and software tools.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and developer experience teams to enable best-in-class support for open models across inference, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
• Work onsite at least 3 days per week.
• Facilitate feedback loops between our platform and model builders to improve performance, usability, and compatibility.
• Work with executives to launch new products and support keynotes.

Skills

Product management

Technical partner management

Community model ecosystem

Python

Marketing experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Project management

Education

BS in engineering / CS

MS in engineering / CS

MBA (a plus)

Tools

Hugging Face

PyTorch

Ollama

SGLang

vLLM

Job description

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborating with community model builders to ensure seamless model support, early access collaboration, and go-to-market alignment.
• Tracking emerging trends in the open model space and assess technical differentiators and ecosystem impact of new releases.
• Supporting product marketing in crafting model-specific messaging and documentation - including blogs, whitepapers, case studies, and presentations, highlighting NVIDIA’s optimizations and software tools.
• Collaborating closely with internal engineering, infrastructure, and developer experience teams to enable best-in-class support for open models across inference, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
• Working onsite at least 3 days per week
• Facilitating feedback loops between our platform and model builders to continuously improve performance, usability, and compatibility.
• Work with executives to launch new products and support keynotes.

What we need to see:

• 7+ years of significant work experience in product management or technical partner management.
• BS or MS or equivalent experience in engineering, computer science, or another technical field. MBA a plus.
• Knowledge of the community model ecosystem, including Hugging Face, PyTorch, and inference frameworks like Ollama, SGLang, and vLLM.
• Comfortable reviewing Python code used in presentations, demos, and articles.
• Experience with creating marketing and social media.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, including Microsoft products and markdown skills, with the ability to translate between partner requirements and internal priorities.
• You love to thrive in a cross-functional organization, by collaborating with peers across teams and functions.
• Deep organizational skills, capable of balancing multiple projects at the same time.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Product manager experience at a company training frontier AI models.
• Hands-on experience with quantization, distillation, or low-rank adaptation techniques and running community models on NVIDIA GPUs.
• Hardworking and highly motivated with measurable results (metrics, awards, key accomplishments) you can share.
• A growing portfolio of blogs and social posts with links to your relevant work, including technical writing, social media presence, videos, and research papers.

With highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most hard-working and dedicated people in the world working for us and, due to outstanding growth, our special engineering teams are growing fast. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a genuine passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 258,750 USD for Level 4, and 208,000 USD - 327,750 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 3, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.