Senior Principal Product Manager

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) our goal is to increase the value of the distributed cloud, rapidly expand both OCI’s global and local access and provide multicloud capabilities that give customers a choice. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, but with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world where OCI’s values are the foundation of how we deliver excellence.

 

As a Senior Principal Product Manager on the Strategic Products and Growth team, you will be driving the growth and success of the business. This role will be the business owner for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. You will work with partner teams to grow the product and identity new areas of investment. You should be passionate about delivering services to customers while also possessing a deep understanding of strategic business objectives. A strong technical background is required to produce concrete specifications and work closely with engineering to grow and extend the platform. 

 

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in this area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. This role requires product management expertise, leadership skills, and strong business judgment. The team at OCI is constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an energetic and creative environment. We are unencumbered and will need your contribution to continue to support our world class engineering center with the focus on excellence.

We are specifically looking for an experienced and customer-centric product manager to join the OCI team that will be responsible for:

• Playing a key role in influencing the strategy and execution of key initiatives of OCI
• Driving alignment on product features, business metrics, and business strategies and communicating to OCI leadership on a regular basis.
• Thought leadership and executive direction in establishing and developing processes and methodologies to meet and execute product strategy
• Gathering customer and partner feature requests and feedback, and influencing product direction and vision
• Work directly with key customers to understand their requirements and devise creative solutions to their problems
• Driving rapid customer and partner adoption by working directly with customers, account teams, and engineering teams to anticipate customer needs.
• Working closely with engineering teams translating business requirements into technical requirements to help shape the future roadmap of OCI services.
• Presenting solutions to customers and partners at multiple levels, from engineers up to CxO. Explaining transformational concepts to executive decision makers and influencing their technology strategy.
• Go-To-Market activities, including product positioning, collecting customer references and stories, evangelise product both internally and externally
• Assisting in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives for exponential customer and partner adoption on the cloud platform.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in an IT platform environment working with large Enterprises.
• Deep understanding of cloud competitive landscape, customer priorities and challenge.
• Strong technical acumen, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Deep experience migrating and growing application portfolios to Cloud.
• Strong communication, presentation, and speaking skills.
• Knowledge of VMware technologies is desirable

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: from $114,500 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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
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