Manager, Developer Relations - Industries

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

We are seeking an accomplished and visionary Manager, Developer Relations to lead strategic engagements across large scale developer ecosystems within emerging technology domains. In this highly influential role, you will define and drive the technical strategy for partnering with software solution providers, developers, and industry innovators to accelerate adoption of NVIDIA’s advanced AI and computing platforms. The ideal candidate blends architectural and domain expertise with proven skill in influencing industry direction and guiding partner product strategies. They encourage developers worldwide to build on NVIDIA technologies that are crafting the future of computing. 
 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Analyze and shape the developer ecosystem to identify emerging growth opportunities, collaborating multi-functionally with engineering, product management, and marketing to influence product roadmaps and optimize large‑scale partner adoption strategies.

• Engage partner senior technical leaders to drive best‑practice integrations and resolve complex architectural challenges, establishing ongoing collaboration rhythms to track adoption, uncover emerging workflows, and deliver critical field insights that shape NVIDIA’s product and platform strategy.

What We Need to See:

• 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.

Ways to Stand Out from the crowd:

• 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. 

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. If you're a creative and autonomous person with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 21, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse 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.