When Sarah Wang was accepted into the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2014, she was seven months pregnant with her son Marcus. Given the less-than-ideal timing, her entire family tried to convince her to defer. Undeterred, Wang accepted, and moved from Shenzhen, China to Boston and started business school with a two-month-old in tow.
That determination has carried Wang through her career to her current role as a go-to-market product manager at NVIDIA. Her NVIDIA journey began in the company’s Shenzhen office in 2006, where she worked as a project manager on the memory qualification team.
Aspiring to make a bigger impact, she decided to uplevel her skills by briefly leaving the company to pursue a full-time MBA — with assurances from senior leaders that she would be welcome to return.
“It was one of the most challenging periods of my life, but I don’t shy away from challenges — I embrace them,” she said. “I wanted to keep learning and make a positive impact on the world through my career, and I wanted to continue doing my life’s work at NVIDIA.”
Now based in Santa Clara, Wang rejoined NVIDIA in 2015 to work on corporate strategy and revenue planning. Hoping to apply this new strategy expertise more directly to NVIDIA’s products, she transitioned in 2020 to leading product development and releases, eventually growing into an expanded role as a go-to-market product manager.
Wang now manages go-to-market efforts for products across NVIDIA’s portfolio, spanning robotics, gaming, professional visualization, data center and automotive product launches.
She collaborates across teams critical to bringing a product from conception to launch, including hardware and software engineering, supply chain, mass production and sales groups. Her work touches product strategy, marketing, operations and more.
Wang sees her life’s work as keeping teams aligned to NVIDIA’s mission. She brings teams together to solve problems, brainstorm ideas, determine what’s possible and iterate on how to make products better — whether it’s making them smaller, thinner or more energy efficient.
With an eye for detail, Wang is passionate about eliminating roadblocks or challenges in a team’s path. From her unique view into many groups in the business, she’s able to identify practices that work well and apply them across product lines.
“My role is to help facilitate the team moving forward together,” she said. “When something seems impossible, we find a solution as a team.”
Wang often leads large meetings, a skill she’s honed over time. Since English isn’t her first language, she felt self-conscious about her speaking skills early in her career, which resulted in nervous stuttering. With encouragement from leaders and practice over time, she’s grown into a confident speaker whose proudest moment at NVIDIA was presenting to hundreds of colleagues about the history, innovation and growth of NVIDIA GeForce.
“It meant the world to me to represent our team, highlight the innovative work of so many people and celebrate our breakthrough achievements,” she said. “It made me emotional and so proud to be a part of NVIDIA. I’m able to tell Marcus, ‘These products were made by your mom and her team.’”
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