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Program Manager at Emerson

Program Manager

Emerson · Austin, TX, US

2 weeks ago

Program Manager

Emerson · Austin, TX, US

14 days ago
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About the Role

This role seeks a senior technical leader to enhance NI’s Software Community Program by strengthening engagement with customers, developers, and technical communities. The individual will act as a technical representative of NI software, fostering relationships, increasing advocacy, and building confidence in the NI software platform. This position requires deep technical expertise, community engagement, technical communication, and relationship development skills, informing NI’s strategy and priorities.

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.
  • Equip other customer-facing teams with technical messaging, demonstrations, examples, and expertise that help them represent NI’s software strategy effectively.
  • Bring meaningful community perspectives, technical trends, customer concerns, and emerging practices back into NI.

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.
  • 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.
  • Willingness to travel regularly for customer engagements, community activities, and industry events.
  • Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States.
  • This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided.
  • Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT), H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Skills

  • Technical Leadership
  • Community Engagement
  • Technical Communication
  • Relationship Development
  • Software Strategy
  • Software Architecture
  • AI-assisted software development
  • CI/CD
  • DevOps
  • Automation
  • Containers
  • APIs
  • Open-source software
  • Technical Presentations
  • Demonstrations
  • Prototypes
  • Customer Engagement
  • Developer Communities
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Influencing without Authority

Location

  • United States

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior

About the Company

  • Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software.
  • Through deep domain expertise and flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.
  • With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.
  • We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries.
  • Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson.
  • At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable.
  • We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet.
  • You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through 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.
  • We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.
  • At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do.

Equal Opportunity

  • Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.
  • We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.