Program Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Propel NI’s Software Community Program by actively engaging with customers, developers, technical communities, and key figures within the NI ecosystem.

• Act as a trustworthy technical representative for NI software.

• Connect with customers through technical meetings, site visits, workshops, user groups, conferences, and industry events.

• Articulate NI’s software strategy, technical direction, roadmap, and essential messages to technical audiences.

• Clarify and showcase NI software’s support for AI-assisted development, CI/CD, automation, containers, open source, and innovative workflows.

• Create technical presentations, demonstrations, prototypes, examples, and various other content.

• Engage in both online and in-person engineering communities, addressing technical inquiries.

• Cultivate relationships with influential users, advocates, contributors, early adopters, partners, and strategic collaborators.

• Assist Champions, user groups, developer engagement, open-source initiatives, technical content, and customer advocacy programs.

• Identify prospects for early-access programs, open-source projects, technical partnerships, and collaborative innovation.

• Work in tandem with R&D, Product, Marketing, Sales, and other internal teams.

• Provide customer-facing teams with technical messaging, demonstrations, examples, and expertise.

• Relay community insights, technical trends, customer feedback, and emerging practices back to NI.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in software engineering, preferably encompassing the design, development, or architecture of complex software systems.

• Profound understanding of contemporary software engineering practices, development workflows, and software architecture.

• Strong familiarity with AI-assisted software development, CI/CD, DevOps, automation, containers, APIs, and open-source software.

• Capability to quickly acquire in-depth technical knowledge of NI software, its architecture, and the engineering workflows it supports.

• Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation skills.

• Proven experience in presenting intricate technical topics to engineering audiences.

• Ability to create technical demonstrations, prototypes, examples, or other practical assets.

• Experience collaborating directly with customers, developer communities, partners, or other external technical audiences.

• Proficient in effective communication with highly technical contributors and senior business or engineering leaders.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.

• Willingness to travel frequently for customer interactions, community engagements, and industry events.

• Legally authorized to work in the United States; no current or future sponsorship will be provided.

• Experience in participating in developer communities, open-source projects, technical conferences, user groups, or similar communities is highly desirable.

• Familiarity with NI software, automated test, measurement, engineering systems, or related technical fields is highly desirable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Award-winning employee development programs.

• Equal opportunity workplace.

• Workplace free of discrimination or harassment.

• Accessibility assistance or accommodations for applicants with disabilities.