Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Serve as a highly credible technical representative of NI within customer and developer communities.
• Engage directly with customers through technical meetings, site visits, workshops, user groups, conferences, industry events, and other forums.
• Communicate NI’s software strategy, technical direction, roadmap, and key messages to highly technical audiences.
• Explain and demonstrate how NI software supports modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development, CI/CD, automation, containers, open source, and emerging software workflows.
• Develop and deliver technical presentations, demonstrations, prototypes, examples, and other content that make NI’s software strategy tangible.
• Participate directly in online and in-person engineering communities, answering questions, contributing technical perspective, and representing NI appropriately.
• Build relationships with influential users who can become advocates, contributors, early adopters, partners, and strategic collaborators.
• Support programs involving Champions, user groups, developer engagement, open source, technical content, customer advocacy, and other community initiatives.
• Identify opportunities for deeper collaboration with customers and community members, including early-access programs, open-source initiatives, technical partnerships, and co-innovation.
• Work with R&D, Product, Marketing, Sales, and other internal teams to ensure community engagement is aligned with NI’s broader software strategy.

Requirements

• Significant professional software engineering experience, ideally including experience designing, developing, or architecting complex software systems.
• Deep understanding of modern software engineering practices, development workflows, and software architecture.
• Strong familiarity with technologies and practices such as AI-assisted software development, CI/CD, DevOps, automation, containers, APIs, and open-source software.
• Ability to rapidly develop deep technical knowledge of NI software, its architecture, and the engineering workflows it supports.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Experience presenting complex technical topics to engineering audiences.
• Ability to create technical demonstrations, prototypes, examples, or other hands-on assets.
• Experience working directly with customers, developer communities, partners, or other external technical audiences.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both highly technical contributors and senior business or engineering leaders.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to influence without direct authority.

Preferred

• Experience participating in or contributing to 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 adjacent technical domains is highly desirable.

Benefits

• Our award-winning employee development programs.
• We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large.