Program Manager Jobs

About The Position

Responsibilities

• Support program goals, timelines, milestones, budgets, success metrics, and reporting mechanisms for the Physical AI for All program.
• Create and maintain program documentation, dashboards, schedules, and ROI reports for internal communication.
• Develop and manage strategic academic partnerships that support Cadence's workforce development and technology adoption objectives.
• Update communications and presentations for the Academic Network to ensure they remain on-brand and aligned with the corporate mission.
• Program-manage engagements at key universities and prioritize support across multiple U.S. universities.
• Attend calls and discussions and capture action items.
• Prepare Cadence and university attendees for visits, meetings, and calls by providing attendee backgrounds and biographies.
• Ensure Cadence delivers on commitments by managing up and across the organization.
• Lead communications with sponsored student design teams and support initiatives aligned with strategic technology priorities.
• Coordinate onboarding of participating universities and student teams to maximize ROI.
• Create and execute communication strategies that promote academic initiatives and program participation.
• Develop content for websites, email campaigns, social media, presentations, webinars, newsletters, and executive communications.
• Partner with Corporate Marketing on messaging and storytelling about academic success stories and innovation outcomes.
• Support sponsorship activities and partnership programs that expand Cadence's academic reach and impact.
• Support conferences, workshops, showcases, competitions, webinars, and networking events where the Academic Network is supporting or leading.
• Represent the Academic Network at events when appropriate.
• Coordinate event logistics, speaker engagement, participant communications, and event execution.
• Track participation metrics, engagement trends, outreach effectiveness, and program outcomes.