Program Manager for Academic Network

The Cadence Academic Network partners with leading universities, faculty, researchers, roboticists, and student organizations worldwide to foster the next generation of innovations to accelerate workforce development.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Academic Programs Manager to market and drive strategic academic engagement initiatives, university partnerships, student innovation programs, and workforce development activities. This role will be instrumental in expanding Cadence's academic ecosystem and leading high-impact programs focused on emerging technologies such as Physical AI, semiconductor design, and advanced engineering.

Responsibilities

Academic Program Leadership

• Support program goals, timelines, milestones, budgets, success metrics, and reporting mechanisms for the Physical AI for All program.
• Create and maintain program documentation, dashboards, schedules, and ROI reports for internal communication.
• Develop and manage strategic academic partnerships supporting Cadence's workforce development and technology adoption objectives.
• Update communications, presentations, the Academic Network to ensure we remain on-brand and aligned with the corporate mission.

Program manage engagements at Key Universities

• Multitask and prioritize time supporting multiple key universities in the US.

• Attend calls/discussions to capture action items

• Ensure Cadence and University attendees are prepared for visits, meetings, and calls:

• Provide backgrounds and Bios of attendees

• Ensure that we are delivering on commitments (managing up and across the organization)

Student Innovation Programs

• Lead communication with student design teams, which we are sponsoring. initiatives aligned with strategic technology priorities.
• Coordinate onboarding of participating universities and student teams to ensure maximum ROI.

Marketing & Communications

• Create and execute communication strategies that promote academic initiatives and program participation.
• Develop content for websites, email campaigns, social media, presentations, webinars, newsletters, and executive communications.
• Partner with Corporate Marketing to create compelling messaging and storytelling around academic success stories and innovation outcomes.
• Support sponsorship activities and partnership programs that expand Cadence's academic reach and impact.

Event & Community Development

• Support conferences, workshops, showcases, competitions, webinars, and networking events where the Academic Network is supporting or leading.  Represent the Academic Network events when appropriate.
• Coordinate logistics, speaker engagement, participant communications, and event execution.

Program Analytics & Reporting

• Track participation metrics, engagement trends, outreach effectiveness, and program outcomes.