Senior Customer Program Manager – AI Platform

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 322,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Senior Customer Program Manager to plan and execute technical and operational programs for major partners and customers from Santa Clara, CA. You will drive cross‑functional teams including hardware, software, logistics, and sales, ensuring on‑time delivery and strong customer relationships throughout the product lifecycle.

The role requires a strong technical background, 12+ years in PM, and experience with cloud/AI ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of program/project management in Cloud providers, Automotive, Robotics or Physical AI.
• Strong technical background in hardware and/or software product development with cloud/AI exposure.
• Experience driving AI Systems Orchestration for large, multi-team initiatives.
• Proven track record leading complex, global programs through product lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage program schedules, deliverables, and milestones aligned with customer roadmaps.
• Translate customer requirements into tasks for engineering, QA, logistics, and sales.
• Provide cross-functional leadership and coordinate globally distributed teams.
• Lead customer interfaces through kick‑offs, design reviews, issue tracking, and status updates.
• Drive execution from design to deployment ensuring on-time delivery and acceptance.
• Provide post‑deployment sustaining support and act as case manager for high‑priority concerns.
• Communicate program health, risks, and issues to customers and leadership.
• Plan and execute strategies to integrate complex AI model stacks in customer environments.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder communication

Technical background

Travel flexibility

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Cloud platforms

AI systems orchestration

Data handling pipelines

Job description

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, and Tier-1 partners. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical program management expertise, a solid engineering background, and the ability to thrive in fast-paced environments while ensuring successful outcomes for both internal teams and external collaborators.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Define and manage program schedules, deliverables, and turning points aligned with customers and partners 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.
• Define the strategy and execution plans for successfully integrating complex AI model tech stacks in customer environments, from evaluation/proof‑of‑concept to design, development, qualification, and validation to production launch.

What We Need to See:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of program/project management experience in Cloud providers, Automotive, Robotics or Physical AI industries.
• Strong technical background in hardware and/or software product development with experience working closely with cloud and AI solution providers.
• Experience driving AI Systems Orchestration. Aligning engineering teams to scale large generative architectures while managing massive compute resources, infrastructure bottlenecks, and model release timelines.
• 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.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:

• Experience working with Synthetic data generation pipelines and/or World Foundation Models.
• Experience managing data Lifecycle Management: Overseeing large-scale data curation pipelines, defining automated quality metrics for training data, and mitigating legal, privacy, and bias risks.
• 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.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the world’s most desirable employers! We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to outstanding growth, our best‑in‑class engineering teams are rapidly growing.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD.

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.

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