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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.See All 33 Technical Documentation Manager Jobs
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Banking & Financial Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in technical documentation manager jobs.
- 5+ years of technical writing experience with at least 2 years in a management or lead role
- Proficiency with structured authoring tools such as MadCap Flare, Oxygen XML, or Adobe FrameMaker
- Experience managing documentation for software products including APIs and developer-facing content
- Familiarity with docs-as-code workflows using Git, Markdown, and CI/CD pipelines
- Demonstrated ability to build and enforce style guides and documentation standards across teams
- Bachelor's degree in technical communication, English, computer science, or a related field
Tips for Your Technical Documentation Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to documentation tools
Hiring managers scan for specific tools before reading anything else. Call out your experience with MadCap Flare, Confluence, DITA, and XML authoring environments in a dedicated skills section, not buried in job descriptions.
Show portfolio samples upfront
Attach a portfolio link in your resume header, not just your cover letter. Include at least one API reference guide and one end-user manual so reviewers can see your range before the first interview.
Target openings with DITA or docs-as-code requirements
Job postings mentioning DITA, Git, or static site generators like Docusaurus signal mature documentation teams with real infrastructure. Those roles move faster and tend to offer stronger long-term growth than teams still on legacy tools.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists technical documentation manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a cross-functional influence story
Interviewers for manager roles want evidence you've aligned engineering, product, and design on documentation standards without direct authority. Prepare one specific example where you drove a style guide or toolchain adoption across teams.
Negotiate scope before discussing compensation
Clarify team size, tool budget, and whether the role owns the information architecture or inherits a fixed system. Those factors affect your leverage and workload more than title, so get them on the table before the offer conversation starts.
Technical Documentation Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most technical documentation managers?
FoodMatch, MathWorks, and City National Bank of Florida are hiring the most technical documentation managers right now, with openings concentrated in California, Virginia, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Software, aerospace, and medical device companies account for the largest share of active postings.
How many technical documentation manager jobs are remote?
About 57% of technical documentation manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the digital nature of the work. Roles focused on software API documentation and developer portals have the highest remote availability, while positions tied to regulated industries like aerospace or medical devices more often require an on-site presence.
How do you become a technical documentation manager?
Start by building several years of hands-on technical writing experience, ideally across more than one product type. Develop proficiency with industry-standard authoring tools and earn a certification such as the Certified Professional Technical Communicator credential. Take on lead or senior writer responsibilities to demonstrate you can set standards and mentor others, then pursue roles with explicit management scope.
Can you get a technical documentation manager job with little experience?
Moving directly into a manager title with no prior writing experience is rare, but candidates who have led documentation projects, mentored junior writers, or owned a style guide overhaul often compete successfully for smaller team lead roles. Focus your search on companies with one-to-two-person documentation teams where the manager role doubles as a senior contributor, since those postings are more open to candidates building management experience for the first time.
What does the technical documentation manager interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four rounds. An initial recruiter screen is followed by a hiring manager conversation focused on your documentation philosophy and tool experience. A portfolio review or take-home exercise then tests your editorial judgment and ability to give constructive feedback on existing docs. Final rounds typically include a panel with engineering, product, or design stakeholders who assess how well you collaborate across functions.
Where can I find and apply to technical documentation manager jobs?
You can find and apply to technical documentation manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your tool expertise and industry background, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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