Principal Technical Program Manager

In this role, the Principal Product Manager will be tasked with leveraging the potential of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to help strategic customers achieve their business goals. The position requires a mix of deep technical understanding of cloud service and the ability to effectively understand customer need. The PPM will serve as a bridge between product teams, engineering, and customers, identifying specific challenges, cloud adoption drivers, and key service value propositions. The emphasis is on understanding key reference customers needs, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring the delivery of desired features.

The product manager will own the discovery, development, and integration of features spanning multiple OCI products. Additionally, the role encompasses the creation of customer reference programs, sales collateral, and various content types. Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders is emphasized, contributing to Oracle''s global growth, market share expansion, and customer retention efforts.

Department Description:

Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best-in-class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.

https://cloud.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure

As a Principal Product Manager, you will be spearheading the creation of services and features that the world's largest customers need to successfully adopt the cloud. You will work with a diverse set of stakeholders including senior executives, architects, development teams, and external partners to take ideas, turn them into mature products, and put them in the hands of the world's most demanding customers.

The successful candidate will have a passion for solving difficult problems in a collaborative, agile work environment, a knack for creativity and innovative thinking, and a strong sense of empathy for both customers and engineering teams.

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

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Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle''s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

As a member of the product development division, you will analyze and integrate external customer specifications. Suggest and justify product directions and specifications. Specify, design and implement moderate changes to existing software architecture. Build new products and development tools. Build and execute unit tests and unit test plans. Review integration and regression test plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering to discuss major changes to functionality.

Key Responsibilities

• Unlock the power of OCI with our strategic customers.
• Identify, define and prioritize products and features
• Technical depth and breadth required to understand strategic customer needs and match them to the OCI products/service footprint.
• Be the conduit between inbound product teams, engineering and the customer.
• Write product definitions and user stories as an input to product design
• Define, measure, and manage customer experience and business performance goals
• Focus on determining what key reference customers want, problem solve, deliver the key features/products they want.
• Run programs and analytics to determine what is working vs. what is not.
• Drive the technical direction, product vision, roadmap, and execution across multiple product teams.
• Drive the discovery, development and integration of features that impact multiple products at OCI
• Drive solutions and requirements into roadmaps and new features and functionality to increase customer demand.
• Help create key customer reference programs, sales collateral, public website content, reference architectures, and white papers.
• Frequently meet with and present to Oracle executive leadership and top-tier reference customers.
• Collaborate and coordinate with Oracle-wide stakeholders and work closely with external partners and internal product teams across the company.
• Manage strategic engagement with the field to help grow our international footprint, take market share, land marquis/big logos, and retain existing customers.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 6+ years of relevant hands-on product management experience with cloud or enterprise software.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Deeply technical with an understanding of cloud infrastructure-able to define new features and functionality and synthesize them into what customers want/need.
• Hands-on technical product manager -fungible enough to be deployed on any problem anywhere in OCI.
• Ability to define and shape the business strategy for large product areas
• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously.
• Strong engineering fundamentals with a proven track record building and leading engineering teams at scale.
• Can excel and deliver results under pressure.

As a member of the product development division, you will analyze and integrate external customer specifications. Suggest and justify product directions and specifications. Specify, design and implement moderate changes to existing software architecture. Build new products and development tools. Build and execute unit tests and unit test plans. Review integration and regression test plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering to discuss major changes to functionality.

Key Responsibilities

• Unlock the power of OCI with our strategic customers.
• Identify, define and prioritize products and features
• Technical depth and breadth required to understand strategic customer needs and match them to the OCI products/service footprint.
• Be the conduit between inbound product teams, engineering and the customer.
• Write product definitions and user stories as an input to product design
• Define, measure, and manage customer experience and business performance goals
• Focus on determining what key reference customers want, problem solve, deliver the key features/products they want.
• Run programs and analytics to determine what is working vs. what is not.
• Drive the technical direction, product vision, roadmap, and execution across multiple product teams.
• Drive the discovery, development and integration of features that impact multiple products at OCI
• Drive solutions and requirements into roadmaps and new features and functionality to increase customer demand.
• Help create key customer reference programs, sales collateral, public website content, reference architectures, and white papers.
• Frequently meet with and present to Oracle executive leadership and top-tier reference customers.
• Collaborate and coordinate with Oracle-wide stakeholders and work closely with external partners and internal product teams across the company.
• Manage strategic engagement with the field to help grow our international footprint, take market share, land marquis/big logos, and retain existing customers.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 6+ years of relevant hands-on product management experience with cloud or enterprise software.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Deeply technical with an understanding of cloud infrastructure-able to define new features and functionality and synthesize them into what customers want/need.
• Hands-on technical product manager -fungible enough to be deployed on any problem anywhere in OCI.
• Ability to define and shape the business strategy for large product areas
• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously.
• Strong engineering fundamentals with a proven track record building and leading engineering teams at scale.
• Can excel and deliver results under pressure.