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Program Manager roles at NRG Energy sit at the intersection of energy operations and government and public sector partnerships, requiring candidates who can drive complex initiatives across regulated environments. NRG has a consistent track record of sponsoring work visas for this function, making it a realistic target for international candidates with the right project leadership credentials.
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Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future. Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes.
Program Manager, AI
Job Description
Our mission is to redefine the home experience with tech and services to create a smarter, greener, safer home that saves our customers money every month.
SUMMARY
In this role, the Program Manager will work with high performing teams in Vivint Smart Home’s Innovation group, leading them to deliver innovative products and services, while contributing to improving the way we work together. The focus of this role would be managing full stack software programs. The Program Manager will lead Programs within the AI team, while working closely with product management, engineering management, as well as Vivint’s broader operational groups. This role will be focused on delivering new features and advanced automation capabilities to our customer, while also maintaining products belonging to this team.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Accountable for the plan, schedule and budget for your assigned programs and initiatives. Understand priorities and create clear plans to deliver. Communicate with stakeholders and partners while also managing the cross-program dependencies. Set and meet commitments. Set specific release dates and milestones with the team and keep them focused on those accountabilities while communicating needs for support or issues that put those at risk.
- Partner with engineering teams to deliver working solutions in software, products and systems. Set schedules and create strong execution plans to develop products and features to bring to market. Partner with the Product, Engineering, QA & Release, external partners and Operations team to drive the program. Work across teams to review proposed scope and provide Level of Effort (LOE) estimates as well as suitable tradeoffs for quality and business risk.
- Create appropriate communications to update the business regularly on status, risks and support needed to be successful for the portfolio of programs. Provide weekly and monthly status updates communicating progress towards commitment in terms of scope, schedule, and cost.
- Lead the team to identify and document risks up front, manage and mitigate them and monitor residual risks and any issues that arise regularly. Track tasks and lead a culture of accountability in the team and across the business. Setup excellent change and risk management practices to keep work on track.
- Facilitate and chair relevant program meetings, participate in agile activities where appropriate, develop communications and deliver to stakeholders. Hold regular risk reviews and accountability tracking meetings. Work with stakeholders as risks and issues arise. Develop partner relationships and manage performance of partners relating to program delivery. Work with team to monitor and keep program on track or escalate risk and support needed as required. Using Jira to put together dashboards and reports to track and show velocity of team.
- Draw on professional experience of scheduling, risk and task tracking platforms (MS PROJECT, SMARTSHEETS, EXCEL, etc) as well as content and engineering tracking systems (e.g. JIRA, CONFLUENCE, SHAREPOINT, etc)
- A bias to strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills will exist in assessing success in this role along with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment where change and pivots to priorities occur occasionally.
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Experience in software delivery for consumer devices or consumer markets. Team Leadership, ability to establish a leadership identity within the respective groups and overall stakeholder organizations and partners.
- Demonstrate the ability and track record of leading in project delivery and excellence in communication.
- Demonstrate passion to succeed, inspire and motivate the team.
- Strong negotiation skills as well as ability to facilitate informed and timely decisions and mediating tradeoffs with various groups to deliver a product on time and ready for market.
- Deliver clear, concise professional verbal and written communication that is appropriate to the situation and audience. Including commitment to transparency, and stakeholder-based communication.
- Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to clearly communicate with both business and technical audiences.
- Encourage participation & decision-making by all team members and effectively manage group dynamics.
REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
- Min. 3+ years professional experience leading large programs, including, mobile platform, embedded systems and cloud-based projects is highly desired.
- Hardware experience is not mandatory, but a clear aptitude and willingness to work with those domains is desired.
- Bachelors' degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field with formal project management training (PMP, CSM or similar qualifications), and SAFe certification highly preferred.
- Strong preference for experience with devices, consumer electronics, manufacturing and consumer facing hardware, software and mobile products.
- Track record of leading others & positive change in project definition, project delivery, and process improvement.
- Working experience with project methodologies such as agile, scrum and sprint planning, and related hardware development processes or framework awareness.
- Past success in creating high performance teams, inspiring and empowering them to achieve results.
- “Owner’s attitude”, including a willingness to tackle complex problems through to solution.
- Ability to work both independently and cross-function with minimal supervision.
- Ability to multi-task priorities and initiatives.
Learn about the Vivint Culture and why it’s a great place to grow your career! Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about:
- Daily lunch and drinks on site
- Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
- Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
- Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
- Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
- 401(k) + Employer Match
- Employee Resource Groups
NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.
EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.
EEO is the Law Poster (The poster can be found at http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf)
Official description on file with Talent.
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future. Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes.
Program Manager, AI
Job Description
Our mission is to redefine the home experience with tech and services to create a smarter, greener, safer home that saves our customers money every month.
SUMMARY
In this role, the Program Manager will work with high performing teams in Vivint Smart Home’s Innovation group, leading them to deliver innovative products and services, while contributing to improving the way we work together. The focus of this role would be managing full stack software programs. The Program Manager will lead Programs within the AI team, while working closely with product management, engineering management, as well as Vivint’s broader operational groups. This role will be focused on delivering new features and advanced automation capabilities to our customer, while also maintaining products belonging to this team.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Accountable for the plan, schedule and budget for your assigned programs and initiatives. Understand priorities and create clear plans to deliver. Communicate with stakeholders and partners while also managing the cross-program dependencies. Set and meet commitments. Set specific release dates and milestones with the team and keep them focused on those accountabilities while communicating needs for support or issues that put those at risk.
- Partner with engineering teams to deliver working solutions in software, products and systems. Set schedules and create strong execution plans to develop products and features to bring to market. Partner with the Product, Engineering, QA & Release, external partners and Operations team to drive the program. Work across teams to review proposed scope and provide Level of Effort (LOE) estimates as well as suitable tradeoffs for quality and business risk.
- Create appropriate communications to update the business regularly on status, risks and support needed to be successful for the portfolio of programs. Provide weekly and monthly status updates communicating progress towards commitment in terms of scope, schedule, and cost.
- Lead the team to identify and document risks up front, manage and mitigate them and monitor residual risks and any issues that arise regularly. Track tasks and lead a culture of accountability in the team and across the business. Setup excellent change and risk management practices to keep work on track.
- Facilitate and chair relevant program meetings, participate in agile activities where appropriate, develop communications and deliver to stakeholders. Hold regular risk reviews and accountability tracking meetings. Work with stakeholders as risks and issues arise. Develop partner relationships and manage performance of partners relating to program delivery. Work with team to monitor and keep program on track or escalate risk and support needed as required. Using Jira to put together dashboards and reports to track and show velocity of team.
- Draw on professional experience of scheduling, risk and task tracking platforms (MS PROJECT, SMARTSHEETS, EXCEL, etc) as well as content and engineering tracking systems (e.g. JIRA, CONFLUENCE, SHAREPOINT, etc)
- A bias to strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills will exist in assessing success in this role along with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment where change and pivots to priorities occur occasionally.
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Experience in software delivery for consumer devices or consumer markets. Team Leadership, ability to establish a leadership identity within the respective groups and overall stakeholder organizations and partners.
- Demonstrate the ability and track record of leading in project delivery and excellence in communication.
- Demonstrate passion to succeed, inspire and motivate the team.
- Strong negotiation skills as well as ability to facilitate informed and timely decisions and mediating tradeoffs with various groups to deliver a product on time and ready for market.
- Deliver clear, concise professional verbal and written communication that is appropriate to the situation and audience. Including commitment to transparency, and stakeholder-based communication.
- Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to clearly communicate with both business and technical audiences.
- Encourage participation & decision-making by all team members and effectively manage group dynamics.
REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
- Min. 3+ years professional experience leading large programs, including, mobile platform, embedded systems and cloud-based projects is highly desired.
- Hardware experience is not mandatory, but a clear aptitude and willingness to work with those domains is desired.
- Bachelors' degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field with formal project management training (PMP, CSM or similar qualifications), and SAFe certification highly preferred.
- Strong preference for experience with devices, consumer electronics, manufacturing and consumer facing hardware, software and mobile products.
- Track record of leading others & positive change in project definition, project delivery, and process improvement.
- Working experience with project methodologies such as agile, scrum and sprint planning, and related hardware development processes or framework awareness.
- Past success in creating high performance teams, inspiring and empowering them to achieve results.
- “Owner’s attitude”, including a willingness to tackle complex problems through to solution.
- Ability to work both independently and cross-function with minimal supervision.
- Ability to multi-task priorities and initiatives.
Learn about the Vivint Culture and why it’s a great place to grow your career! Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about:
- Daily lunch and drinks on site
- Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
- Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
- Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
- Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
- 401(k) + Employer Match
- Employee Resource Groups
NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.
EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.
EEO is the Law Poster (The poster can be found at http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf)
Official description on file with Talent.
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Align your credentials to regulated project environments
Program Manager roles at NRG Energy span government and public sector contracts, so a PMP certification or documented experience managing deliverables under federal or state regulatory frameworks strengthens your profile significantly before you apply.
Target NRG's government and utility divisions directly
NRG's public sector and utility operations generate the most consistent Program Manager demand. Filter open roles by those business units rather than applying broadly across the company, since sponsorship decisions are often made at the hiring manager level within those divisions.
Clarify H-1B sponsorship intent before the offer stage
Ask your recruiter whether the specific role has been designated as sponsorship-eligible early in the process. Program Manager positions at NRG Energy have been filed under both H-1B and employment-based Green Card pathways, but not every open requisition will carry the same authorization.
Understand LCA requirements for your work location
NRG operates across multiple states, and your H-1B Labor Condition Application through DOL will reflect the prevailing wage for the specific work site. If your role spans locations, confirm with your HR contact which primary worksite will appear on the LCA.
Prepare for PERM timing if targeting a Green Card path
NRG has sponsored EB-2 and EB-3 categories for Program Managers, meaning PERM labor certification is typically required. That process often starts 12 to 18 months into employment, so negotiate your H-1B start date with enough runway before the six-year cap becomes a constraint.
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Does NRG Energy sponsor H-1B visas for Program Managers?
Yes, NRG Energy sponsors H-1B visas for Program Manager roles. Their public sector and energy operations regularly require specialized project leadership talent, and the company has an established process for filing H-1B petitions through USCIS. Sponsorship availability can vary by specific requisition and business unit, so confirm directly with the recruiter during the interview process.
Which visa types does NRG Energy commonly use for Program Manager roles?
NRG Energy primarily sponsors H-1B visas for Program Managers in nonimmigrant status. For candidates seeking permanent residence, NRG has also supported EB-2 and EB-3 employment-based Green Card pathways, which typically require PERM labor certification through the Department of Labor. The pathway pursued usually depends on your qualifications, the role's classification, and your current visa status.
How do I apply for Program Manager jobs at NRG Energy?
Applications are submitted through NRG Energy's careers portal. You can also find active Program Manager openings that include visa sponsorship by browsing Migrate Mate, which filters verified roles at NRG specifically for international candidates. When applying, tailor your resume to reflect experience managing cross-functional programs in regulated or government-adjacent environments, since that aligns closely with NRG's public sector work.
What qualifications does NRG Energy expect for Program Manager candidates seeking sponsorship?
NRG typically looks for a bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field, along with substantial experience managing large-scale programs in energy, utilities, or government contracting environments. A PMP certification is frequently listed as preferred. For H-1B eligibility, the role must qualify as a specialty occupation under USCIS standards, which a degree-level requirement helps establish.
How do I plan my timeline around H-1B sponsorship at NRG Energy?
The H-1B cap lottery opens in March each year, with an October 1 start date for selected petitions. If you're targeting NRG Energy, you'll need a signed offer and a filed Labor Condition Application with the DOL before USCIS registration closes. Cap-exempt pathways exist if you're transferring from a qualifying institution, but most NRG Program Manager roles go through the standard cap process.
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