Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cadence is seeking an Academic Programs Manager to expand its academic ecosystem and drive strategic university engagement, student innovation, and workforce development initiatives. The role leads program planning and partnerships, develops marketing communications, supports events, and tracks program outcomes focused on emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Track participation metrics, engagement trends, outreach effectiveness, and program outcomes
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