Principal Product Manager

Description

Are you looking for an exciting, fast-paced Product Manager opportunity, leading the future of Oracle Cloud? If you want to join a team of principal technical advisers and be the “voice of the customer” within OCI Engineering, then this could be the opportunity for you. Join the Global Government Regions team and create the future with us!

Our Global Government Regions team is defining the next generation of cloud platforms that meet the needs of governments and the public sector globally, including defense and intelligence community customers. To be successful you will need to think creatively as you drive strategic initiatives for our existing and future regions. Thrive in this crucial role!. 

U.S. Citizenship and less than 10% domestic and/or international travel required.  

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

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.

What you'll do

• Work with strategic customers to understand their requirements, influence our product roadmap, evangelise our solutions, and determine how to accelerate cloud consumption. 
• Directly influence how our global government customers use OCI.
• Provide your expertise and guidance throughout the deal cycle (pre-RFP to solution delivery and steady-state). 
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to understand business drivers and assess application portfolios ensuring that cloud solutions are highly scalable, flexible and resilient. 
• Act as the voice of customers to Oracle’s various cloud engineering teams.
• Be our product evangelist - engage directly with customers and partners, participate and present in external events and conferences. 

What you'll bring

• Demonstrable experience translating customer needs into innovative and detailed product requirements for customer-facing online products/services.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in product management. 
• Experience translating customer needs into innovative and detailed product requirements for customer-facing online products/services. 
• Experience with cloud platform technologies and understanding of how to apply them to real world problems is required. 
• Experience as a product manager, or in a technical leadership role, with a cloud platform technology provider is strongly preferred. 
• Excellent knowledge of cloud platform technologies and how to apply them to real world problems.
• Understanding of public sector customers.
• Experience responding to complex government proposals.
• Strong appreciation of the cloud competitive landscape; customer priorities and challenges.
• Strong technical competence, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Preferred qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or MBA is preferred. 
• Exceptional ability to negotiate and collaborate across groups to achieve customer success. 
• Customer focus with experience working with enterprise or public sector customers and developers. 
• Proven track record of successfully releasing enterprise-level cloud services and defining new offerings from ideation, to definition, delivery, launch, and multi-generational releases. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. 

Qualifications
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 $87,600 to $199,500 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.