Open Source Sustainability Program Manager

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced, AI-first Program Manager to lead and expand the Sustainability Series focused on collaborative and diverse software projects. This role sits at the intersection of shared software strategy, community development, industry partnership, and AI-native program operations. As an architect and operator of two flagship programs: the FOSS Fund and the Volunteer Contribution Sprint Series, success means building durable contributor pipelines and growing philanthropic impact. We are also looking for someone to publish a Sustainability Series playbook recognized across the industry while also crafting an AI-agent operating system to help these programs scale beyond manual coordination. This role is unique and impactful, responsible for inventing, building, deploying, and maintaining AI agents and automated workflows that handle repetitive parts of the work. These include research, reporting, project discovery, preparing for maintainer outreach, tracking target metrics, alumni follow-up, partner intelligence, meeting preparation, and program documentation. Over time, this will shift from manually recurring tasks to supervising a trusted portfolio of agents, workflows, dashboards, and human review loops that improve the speed, quality, and impact of NVIDIA’s sustainability projects!

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience in program management, partnership management, collaborative software projects, developer relations, or a related technology role.
Established history of developing repeatable initiatives starting from the ground up and collaborating with various departments such as legal, finance, engineering, and outside organizations.
Clear track record of working directly with AI tools, agents, and automation to minimize manual efforts and boost program scale, quality, and speed.
Ability to break down ambiguous program workflows into repeatable systems that can be supported by AI agents, automation, dashboards, and detailed review processes.
Experience working with software foundations, communities, maintainers, or standards bodies.
Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, along with the ability to negotiate and work well with individuals at all levels.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast paced setting.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience contributing to or managing publicly available software projects or communities as well as experience building or managing AI agents, workflow automations, internal tools, or AI-assisted operating systems for program management.
Familiarity with FOSS funding models, OSS governance structures, or foundation programs such as Linux Foundation, OSI, PSF, NumFOCUS, or similar organizations.
Experience using AI to support ecosystem research, mapping of collaborators, reporting, CRM data maintenance, project monitoring, or community intelligence.
Experience co-presenting or publishing content at industry conferences such as Summit on Open Technologies or All Things Open.
Knowledge of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platforms and their associated software communities.

Responsibilities

Develop and oversee AI agents that automate recurring workflows like research, reporting, outreach preparation, partner intelligence, and documentation.
Transform high-friction manual tasks into repeatable systems with transparent human review stages.
Use AI tools to generate first drafts of reports, maintainer briefs, benchmark analyses, event prep, and impact narratives; build the operating model for an AI-native program function where the Program Manager increasingly manages agents and systems, not just tasks.
Lead the entire quarterly FOSS Fund cycle. This includes nominations, coordination of the selection committee, disbursement, and impact reporting, using AI-assisted research to proactively identify strategically important software projects for NVIDIA to support.
Partner directly with OSS maintainers and project leads to understand funding needs, project health, governance, and ecosystem relevance.
Evolve the fund model over time (award size, recurring and multi-year support, budget growth) and benchmark NVIDIA’s approach against peer industry programs, publishing reusable insights.
Lead the full sprint lifecycle, from partner outreach and project selection through cohort launch, execution, and post-sprint reporting.
Grow from 1 sprint per year to 3–4 annually by increasing partners, projects, and foundation relationships.
Coordinate legal agreements, shared frameworks, and industry-facing collaboration at events such as LF Member Summit and Collaborative Technology Summit; monitor sprint alumni, contributor retention, maintainer satisfaction, volunteer hours, merged PRs, and philanthropic dollars unlocked.
Serve as the primary liaison among legal, finance, engineering, developer advocacy, and external partner groups.