Lead Principal Product Manager

As a Lead Principal Product Manager, you will own a major strategic product area that reaches across organizations and influences line-of-business outcomes. You will translate strategic-customer adoption patterns, competitive signals, field insight, and technical constraints into a coherent strategy and lead cross-functional execution through influence. Your portfolio will support strategic customers across AI/ML, Cloud Native, and Dedicated Cloud environments. Success means a clearer path to production, lower operational risk, stronger economics, and scalable product capabilities—not one-off custom solutions. RESPONSIBILITIES - Align product development and prioritization with strategic-customer needs, company goals, workload patterns, and market signals; own and continuously evolve a clear, prioritized roadmap that drives product success from conception through launch and beyond. - Build deep relationships with strategic customer executives, architects, and engineering leaders to understand priorities, target architectures, adoption barriers, and operational requirements. - Partner with Engineering to deliver scalable capabilities that meet customer needs with industry-leading reliability, security, performance, and price-performance. - Lead design-partner, early-adopter, and beta programs that validate product direction, accelerate production deployments, and generate reusable customer patterns. - Translate customer insights into product requirements, product specifications, reference architectures, and roadmap investments; create and review product documentation, including design and functional specifications and product collateral, while distinguishing repeatable product opportunities from account-specific requests. - Lead complex cross-functional initiatives from discovery through launch, field readiness, and adoption; communicate effectively with internal partners across teams and maintain clear success measures, decisions, risks, and owners. - Maintain a current view of the AI/ML, Cloud Native, and Dedicated Cloud competitive landscape to sharpen OCI differentiation and product strategy. - Provide leadership with clear recommendations on roadmap priorities, investment decisions, customer commitments, and strategic tradeoffs. - Enable the field with validated architectures, deployment patterns, operational best practices, collateral, and executive narratives; represent OCI with customers, partners, analysts, and industry audiences. - Mentor and coach product managers and peers, raising the quality of product thinking, customer insight, and decision-making across the team. #LI-ES2 QUALIFICATIONS - 10+ years of relevant experience in product management, cloud infrastructure, enterprise technology, or a closely related field. - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline; an MBA, advanced technical degree, or equivalent relevant experience is also valued. - Proven success owning product strategy, roadmaps, releases, and operational quality for business-critical products or services with significant technical scope. - Deep expertise in at least one business-critical technology area, such as AI/ML infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or Dedicated Cloud environments. - Experience engaging directly with large strategic customers and building trusted relationships at multiple CxO and senior technical leadership levels. - Ability to operate fully independently on exceptionally complex, cross-organizational initiatives; make nuanced tradeoffs; and identify and mitigate technical, customer, and business risks. - Strong analytical, commercial, written, presentation, and executive communication skills; able to use data to guide roadmap decisions, influence key stakeholders, and understand cost, pricing, and service economics. 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: $119,200 to $264,100 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 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 - IC5