Senior Developer Relations Manager - Metropolis

As a Senior Developer Relations Manager - Metropolis at NVIDIA, you will play a crucial role in crafting the future of computing by driving the adoption of innovative technologies.

Located in Tokyo, Japan, this opportunity lets you work with a world-class team to build impactful solutions and encourage innovation in video analytics, manufacturing, construction, smart spaces, retail, and media/entertainment.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the trusted technical advisor, problem solver, and champion for the developer ecosystem in video analytics in manufacturing, construction, smart spaces, retail, media and entertainment, with cross-functional partners to drive adoption of NVIDIA technologies especially VSS (Video Search and Summarization) blueprint.
• Accelerate critical workloads by demonstrating innovative solutions that integrate the core NVIDIA stack into developer products, platforms, and pipelines.
• Advise on technical enablement resources, such as sample code, guides, demonstration pipelines, and tools, highlighting the application of technologies in solving real-world problems.
• Guide partners and startups through onboarding and integration with NVIDIA’s programs, encouraging co-innovation and the development of next-generation solutions.
• Map, track, and monitor the developer ecosystem to identify growth opportunities, inform technology roadmaps, and build adoption strategies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with solution architects, engineering, product management, and marketing to drive developer engagement and optimize partner adoption strategies.
• Engage with partner engineering teams, technical leaders, and decision-makers to identify goals, solve technical challenges, and promote guidelines for successful integrations.
• Represent and advocate for the partner technical needs and feedback to NVIDIA’s internal product and engineering teams, supplying actionable insights from field deployments to influence product roadmaps.
• Act as a technical inspiring leader through conference presentations, user group engagements, solution showcases, writing tech blog, SNS posting and support for strategic go-to-market and partner initiatives.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or a Master’s degree combined with equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5+ years of professional experience in the technology field, including roles in software engineering, developer relations, and technical partnerships.
• Over 3 years of direct hands-on experience within your specific ecosystem.
• Established background in managing, working alongside, and growing developer programs at prominent technology organizations, video analytics, VLM ISVs, or pertinent sectors.
• Strong technical expertise in video analytics within high-performance computing, cloud, AI/ML, and/or industry-specific frameworks and libraries.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex technical concepts for diverse technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading technical collaborations with engineering and product teams.
• Proven ability to structure and complete complex technical engagements, negotiate requirements, prioritize issues, and collaborate with internal or external partners.
• Intellectual flexibility and a track record of successfully growing penetration for innovative technology-based solutions.
• Good English communication skill in email and video conference. Proficient Japanese communication skill is must.