Senior Principal Technical Program Manager, Network NPI

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world. 

OCI Physical Network Engineering is looking for an analytics-oriented Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive critical projects for the Networking New Product Introduction (NW NPI) team. This new team is responsible for developing and executing the processes to introduce new technologies and designs into the OCI network.  

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Network Engineering , this TPM will operate as a group leader across our organization, partnering with other leaders within Networking, Data Center, Region Build, Service Organizations and Operations to define and iterate on new product processes, as well as drive critical NPI for complex network products.  

This role requires the ability to work well with others (cross-functional engagement and unifying towards a common goal are regular activities), use high judgement and business acumen to figure out ambiguous project requirements and unblock issues, and manage up and down (reporting to both sr executives and enabling engineers directly). 

The Physical Network Engineering organization operates in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment and requires the ability to influence the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, logical reasoning, project planning and the presentation of alternatives. The successful candidate must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically.  They will have a broad scope of experience including network design, network security, compliance, and deployment processes.  A background in logistics and finance is also an asset for this role.

Required Qualifications: 

• 10+ years in Technical Project/Program Management experience in cloud/networking/data center domains
• Direct knowledge of cloud infrastructure and management
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams, dive deep, and communicate key metrics to senior management in a timely manner
• Experience developing new processes, iterating for process improvement
• Record of meeting deadlines while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Strong customer service skills
• Critical attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong background in finance, accounting and/or business administration
• Deep knowledge of multi-input demand planning and supply plan management 
• Thorough understanding of network technologies and logistics, including network design and fabrics, networking protocols, network automation, network telemetry and common hardware platforms

Responsibilities:

• Manage the NPI Program within the Physical Network Engineering organization, including: 
  • Roadmap development, presentation, and execution
  • NPI process development, service team integration, process improvement
  • Cross-team risk and dependency management
• Run multiple, potentially conflicting NPI projects independently, from scoping to execution, including executive project reporting
• Create presentations, documents and other artifacts needed to communicate across the organization
• Help develop and maintain needed relationships with suppliers, vendors and third parties
• Engage with sales teams, business leaders on aggregating long term and short-term engineering and deployment needs

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $109,200 to $223,400 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