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NVIDIA is seeking a DriveOS Documentation Program Manager with a passion for technical documentation and a strong focus on the developer experience. You will own the overall documentation strategy and experience, ensuring DriveOS documentation is consistent, unified, and organized around customer needs. Working closely with product, engineering, technical writing, safety, security, QA, publishing, and customer-facing teams, you will define priorities, drive deliverables, track execution status, and ensure accurate, usable documentation reaches developers at each release.
Do you care deeply about helping developers understand and use complex software? Do you notice when documentation is fragmented, terminology is inconsistent, or users struggle to find their next step? This role offers the opportunity to shape a unified DriveOS documentation experience while bringing writers, engineers, and reviewers together to deliver it. You will shape the documentation portfolio across Linux, QNX, and other Automotive variants, connecting content into a coherent developer experience while accounting for different product capabilities, review requirements, and delivery paths. You will also lead documentation planning and execution throughout the release lifecycle. Working across product, program, engineering, technical writing, QA, and customer facing teams, you will keep the artifact plan, source data, approvals, and published outputs aligned. You will drive work from release plan of record through content freeze, release candidates, delivery, and post-release closure, while making decisions and risks visible.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Own the DriveOS documentation strategy and information architecture. Establish shared content standards, terminology, and organization across teams and product variants, and drive closure of gaps, duplication, and inconsistencies.
- Define documentation journeys for specific customer types and segments. Create navigation maps that connect guides, API references, release notes, and migration information, helping developers find the right content from initial evaluation through development and deployment.
- Plan and drive documentation delivery across DriveOS releases and product variants, aligning scope, owners, milestones, dependencies, customer commitments, and delivery paths.
- Lead cross-functional execution with writers, engineers, and reviewers; track status, resolve blockers, and manage documentation reviews, approvals, defect closure, and release exceptions.
- Coordinate publication and release communications, ensuring approved documentation is correctly versioned, mapped to supported variants, and available through the right internal and external channels. Follow through on late deliverables.
- Gather feedback from developers and customer-facing teams, assess how easily users find information and complete key tasks, and prioritize documentation improvements with content owners.
- Improve dashboards, issue tracking, handoff guides, and automation by defining data and workflow requirements with the teams that own the tools. Use AI and large language models (LLMs) to propose documentation journeys and navigation maps, identify content gaps and inconsistencies, and support consistent terminology and structure. Validate proposed changes with technical writers and subject matter experts before publication.
What We Need To See:
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or related field, or equivalent experience.
- A strong commitment to technical documentation, demonstrated through hands-on improvements to clarity, consistency, and usability, informed by developer feedback and quality signals.
- Experience organizing developer documentation, defining journeys for different customer types and segments, and designing effective navigation.
- Strong program management skills, including planning, prioritization, dependency management, risk escalation, and driving complex programs across multiple teams.
- Familiarity with documentation workflows from content development and review through release and maintenance, including Git/GitLab collaboration, build and publication processes, and CI/CD concepts.
- Experience with automotive, embedded software, or similarly complex platform products. Clear written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to align technical writers, engineering, product, QA, and customer-facing teams.
Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:
- Experience coordinating automotive safety and cybersecurity deliverables and their review processes, including ISO 26262 or ISO 21434 contexts.
- Familiarity with API/ABI documentation, functional or performance test reports, and third-party license reporting.
- Practical experience using AI/LLMs to map documentation journeys, identify gaps and inconsistencies across documents, or improve content organization, with a clear approach to validating results. Experience with scripting, workflow automation, dashboards, or data validation is also valuable. Experience with Gitlab, Sphinx, reStructuredText, Doxygen, DITA, or related technical documentation toolchains.
At NVIDIA, clear, connected documentation helps developers evaluate, integrate, and deploy complex Automotive software. We are looking for someone who cares deeply about that experience, takes ownership of documentation quality and usability, and brings the program management discipline to deliver it consistently.
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary range for this position is 168,000 USD – 258,750 USD.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.NVIDIA is seeking a DriveOS Documentation Program Manager with a passion for technical documentation and a strong focus on the developer experience. You will own the overall documentation strategy and experience, ensuring DriveOS documentation is consistent, unified, and organized around customer needs. Working closely with product, engineering, technical writing, safety, security, QA, publishing, and customer-facing teams, you will define priorities, drive deliverables, track execution status, and ensure accurate, usable documentation reaches developers at each release.
Do you care deeply about helping developers understand and use complex software? Do you notice when documentation is fragmented, terminology is inconsistent, or users struggle to find their next step? This role offers the opportunity to shape a unified DriveOS documentation experience while bringing writers, engineers, and reviewers together to deliver it. You will shape the documentation portfolio across Linux, QNX, and other Automotive variants, connecting content into a coherent developer experience while accounting for different product capabilities, review requirements, and delivery paths. You will also lead documentation planning and execution throughout the release lifecycle. Working across product, program, engineering, technical writing, QA, and customer facing teams, you will keep the artifact plan, source data, approvals, and published outputs aligned. You will drive work from release plan of record through content freeze, release candidates, delivery, and post-release closure, while making decisions and risks visible.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Own the DriveOS documentation strategy and information architecture. Establish shared content standards, terminology, and organization across teams and product variants, and drive closure of gaps, duplication, and inconsistencies.
- Define documentation journeys for specific customer types and segments. Create navigation maps that connect guides, API references, release notes, and migration information, helping developers find the right content from initial evaluation through development and deployment.
- Plan and drive documentation delivery across DriveOS releases and product variants, aligning scope, owners, milestones, dependencies, customer commitments, and delivery paths.
- Lead cross-functional execution with writers, engineers, and reviewers; track status, resolve blockers, and manage documentation reviews, approvals, defect closure, and release exceptions.
- Coordinate publication and release communications, ensuring approved documentation is correctly versioned, mapped to supported variants, and available through the right internal and external channels. Follow through on late deliverables.
- Gather feedback from developers and customer-facing teams, assess how easily users find information and complete key tasks, and prioritize documentation improvements with content owners.
- Improve dashboards, issue tracking, handoff guides, and automation by defining data and workflow requirements with the teams that own the tools. Use AI and large language models (LLMs) to propose documentation journeys and navigation maps, identify content gaps and inconsistencies, and support consistent terminology and structure. Validate proposed changes with technical writers and subject matter experts before publication.
What We Need To See:
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or related field, or equivalent experience.
- A strong commitment to technical documentation, demonstrated through hands-on improvements to clarity, consistency, and usability, informed by developer feedback and quality signals.
- Experience organizing developer documentation, defining journeys for different customer types and segments, and designing effective navigation.
- Strong program management skills, including planning, prioritization, dependency management, risk escalation, and driving complex programs across multiple teams.
- Familiarity with documentation workflows from content development and review through release and maintenance, including Git/GitLab collaboration, build and publication processes, and CI/CD concepts.
- Experience with automotive, embedded software, or similarly complex platform products. Clear written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to align technical writers, engineering, product, QA, and customer-facing teams.
Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:
- Experience coordinating automotive safety and cybersecurity deliverables and their review processes, including ISO 26262 or ISO 21434 contexts.
- Familiarity with API/ABI documentation, functional or performance test reports, and third-party license reporting.
- Practical experience using AI/LLMs to map documentation journeys, identify gaps and inconsistencies across documents, or improve content organization, with a clear approach to validating results. Experience with scripting, workflow automation, dashboards, or data validation is also valuable. Experience with Gitlab, Sphinx, reStructuredText, Doxygen, DITA, or related technical documentation toolchains.
At NVIDIA, clear, connected documentation helps developers evaluate, integrate, and deploy complex Automotive software. We are looking for someone who cares deeply about that experience, takes ownership of documentation quality and usability, and brings the program management discipline to deliver it consistently.
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary range for this position is 168,000 USD – 258,750 USD.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.Documentation Manager Jobs by Experience Level
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in documentation manager jobs.
- 5 or more years of technical writing or documentation experience with at least 2 years in a lead or management role
- Proficiency with documentation tools such as MadCap Flare, Confluence, or similar content management platforms
- Experience developing and enforcing style guides and documentation standards across a team or organization
- Bachelor's degree in English, technical communication, computer science, or a related field
- Ability to collaborate with engineering, product, and subject-matter experts to produce accurate technical content
- Familiarity with structured authoring, DITA, single-sourcing, or content reuse strategies
Tips for Your Documentation Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to documentation standards
Hiring managers want to see the style guides, documentation frameworks, and tools you've owned, not just used. Name them directly: DITA, MadCap Flare, Confluence, or DocBook. Generic 'documentation experience' gets filtered out before a human reads it.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists documentation manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target industries where your domain knowledge fits
A documentation manager who has worked in medical devices will stand out immediately at an FDA-regulated company. Identify the two or three industries where your existing subject-matter knowledge adds the most value and filter your search accordingly.
Show measurable impact in every bullet
Quantify what your documentation programs delivered: reduced support ticket volume, faster onboarding time, or higher content reuse rates. Documentation managers who can connect their work to business outcomes move further in hiring processes than those who list responsibilities alone.
Prepare a portfolio before your first interview
Most documentation manager interviews include a portfolio review or a writing sample assessment. Have two or three representative work samples ready, including one that shows how you managed a team or a content architecture decision, not just individual writing.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
When you receive an offer, clarify team size, tool budget, and whether documentation is a standalone function or embedded in engineering or product. These structural details affect your day-to-day authority more than title does, and they are negotiable at the offer stage.
Documentation Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most documentation managers?
The most active employers for documentation managers right now are Kaiser Permanente, Ensemble Health Partners, and UASI, and the most openings are in Ohio, Texas, and Illinois, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Technology and healthcare companies consistently post the highest volume of documentation manager roles.
How many documentation manager jobs are remote?
About 67% of documentation manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the nature of documentation work that relies on digital tools and async collaboration. Roles focused on API documentation, software user guides, and content strategy tend to have the highest remote availability, while regulatory or compliance documentation roles more often require an on-site presence.
How do you become a documentation manager?
Start by building several years of technical writing experience in a domain like software, healthcare, or engineering. Take on team lead or project lead responsibilities whenever possible, since documentation manager roles require demonstrated experience coordinating writers and managing content programs. Developing expertise in a documentation platform, building a style guide from scratch, and showing measurable results from your work are the steps that accelerate the transition from individual contributor to manager.
How do you get hired as a documentation manager with little experience?
Focus on roles titled documentation lead, senior technical writer, or content lead, which often carry informal management responsibilities and serve as the bridge to a formal manager title. Build a portfolio that includes a content architecture decision, a style guide you created, or a process you improved, not just writing samples. Applying in industries where you already have subject-matter knowledge, such as your current or previous employer's sector, offsets limited management experience.
What does the documentation manager interview process look like?
Most documentation manager interviews include a phone or video screen with HR, followed by a technical or portfolio review with the hiring manager or a documentation lead. A panel interview with cross-functional stakeholders from engineering, product, or compliance is common. Many employers also include a written or take-home assessment asking you to evaluate an existing doc set, write a short sample, or outline a documentation strategy for a described scenario.
Where can I find and apply to documentation manager jobs?
You can find and apply to documentation manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level and industry background, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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