Senior Director, Product Management

Lead product strategy and management within OCI for Oracle Application Platform (OAP), the shared platform Oracle Cloud Applications are built on, run on, and migrate to. OAP delivers lifecycle management, fleet operations, security, shared services, and container services, managing a large and growing global fleet of Oracle Cloud Applications production environments.

Lead a growing team of 10+ product managers and UX designers within a large product development organization. Drive platform standardization and adoption across Oracle Cloud Applications. Serve as the lead product representative to Fusion and Industries Cloud Applications leadership, owning roadmap, intake, prioritization, adoption, migration, and delivery commitments.

Partner with engineering VPs to define AI-assisted operations, intelligent automation, self-service, modernization, reliability, and cost efficiency. Own customer and operator experience, outcome metrics, and executive reviews.

Directs teams to conduct thorough market research and analysis across diverse product portfolios, ensuring alignment with Oracle's strategic goals and continuously refining competitive strategies to lead in the marketplace. Directs teams in identifying and capitalizing on customer needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements. Champions internal teams in the development of problem statements and solutions. Guides the product lifecycle from planning to release and establishes long-term initiatives for evolving the product roadmap for an extensive portfolio of products/features. Establishes innovative best practices organization-wide and champions analytic framework for data-driven decision-making. Partners with key stakeholders at the executive level to define and drive product direction. Drives alignment across Lines of Business (LOB) to drive product innovation and evolution. Establishes success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., OKRs and KPIs) for multiple products and features. Provides strategic oversight to teams in customer advocacy and customer-centric approaches throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring that products are tailored to customer needs. Guides the resolution development process for complex and/or high-stakes customer issues. Guides and strategically coordinates the delivery for the field team and governs various go-to-market efforts, such as recruiting and supporting early adopters to validate and refine product solutions, developing user documentation, and product demonstrations.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Product Analysis – Market Analysis:
–Directs teams to conduct market research and analysis, enabling the organization to evaluate data patterns across diverse portfolios and prioritize initiatives with the highest strategic impact.
–Guides teams to ensure that the product portfolio aligns with Oracle's strategic objectives, continuously refining competitive strategies to lead in the marketplace.
–Governs alignment efforts that integrate customer feedback, market trends, internal stakeholder priorities, and Oracle’s long-term goals.
–Sets strategic direction for product positioning, pricing, and market strategy, ensuring Oracle's sustained leadership and innovation in the industry.
Product Analysis – Solution Identification:
–Directs teams identifying and capitalizing on customers' unmet needs, market opportunities, and/or regulatory requirements, shaping the organization's strategic direction and product portfolio.
–Champions internal teams in developing problem statements and forming hypotheses for new products, ensuring alignment with long-term customer needs, emerging market trends, and organizational goals.
–Guides solution identification processes, providing strategic oversight as needed.
–Governs the creation and maintenance of solution artifacts (e.g., regulatory requirements, functional and non-functional requirements, user documentation), offering guidance as necessary.
Product Ownership – Product Development and Road mapping:
–Guides the planning, execution, and release processes for the organization’s entire product lifecycle, ensuring alignment with the overall strategic vision.
–Establishes long-term initiatives for evolving the product roadmap for an extensive portfolio of products/features, ensuring coherence with the organization’s long-term goals.
–Advises others in establishing and developing feature requirements and resources, setting innovative best practices organization-wide.
–Collaborates with senior executive stakeholders to drive delivery excellence, maintain project timelines, and ensure success.
–Champions analytic frameworks for existing metrics (e.g., Service Requests, bugs, customer feedback, customer volumes) and data-driven decision-making to achieve optimal product development and market impact.
–Provides strategic oversight for the development and review of user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring unparalleled product quality and customer satisfaction.
–Forecasts future needs and guides prioritization of features or experiences in the roadmap, aligning them with ambitious success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
Product Ownership – Product Leadership and Influence:
–Partners with key stakeholders at the executive level to drive product direction in alignment with the company's vision, business goals, and customer needs.
–Sets direction for product development to deliver exceptional customer experiences and achieve business goals aligned with Oracle's future state.
–Guides business performance and operations reviews to track progress and identify opportunities for improvement.
–Strategizes the innovation and evolution of products through identification and prioritization of new features and enhancements.
Alignment and Collaboration:
–Drives alignment across business units, ensuring strategic insights are shared effectively and communication channels are optimized at all levels.
–Reviews and influences established guidance to equip employees to proactively address and navigate complex stakeholder pushback.
–Directs the development and execution of innovative solutions tied to OKRs and KPIs, driving organizational transformation.
–Establishes success criteria and performance metrics (OKRs, KPIs) for multiple products and features, ensuring alignment with the organization’s strategic vision.
–Governs cross-team user testing and iterative development, using user insights to drive innovation and leadership.
Customer-Centricity:
–Provides strategic oversight to teams advocating for customers, ensuring feedback is a critical part of the product lifecycle and overall business strategy.
–Empowers employees to engage effectively with customers, gather actionable feedback, and utilize analytics to inform strategic decision-making and improve Oracle’s offerings.
–Leads teams in adopting a customer-centric approach to identify, prioritize, and execute enhancements that provide transformative business value.
–Forecasts new product capabilities and feature designs, leveraging deep customer insights and market trends.
–Champions alignment between products and customer needs, leading initiatives to continuously adapt to, and anticipate, market shifts.
–Coordinates cross-functional collaboration, maximizing product consumer satisfaction and product success.
–Provides oversight on resolving complex and high-stakes customer issues, ensuring customer satisfaction and product quality.
Product Release – Go-to-Market:
–Guides the review, validation, and strategic coordination of delivery for the field team (e.g., release overview, field presentations, demos).
–Governs the process of recruiting and supporting early adopters to validate and refine product solutions, offering strategic oversight as needed.
–Directs development of user documentation to ensure accuracy and alignment across the organization.
–Performs high-level review of the product adoption tracking process, ensuring improvement initiatives align with long-term strategic goals.
–Guides product demonstrations for customers, partners, industry analysts, and field, engaging key stakeholders to gather feedback.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
–Provides strategic oversight in managing and executing large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets to ensure success.
–Sets strategies for delegation, priority setting, and aligning projects with business needs.
–Drives the strategic planning process across teams, providing guidance on resource allocation and anticipating changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
–Sets strategic direction for collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of expectations and objectives.
–Drives a culture of teamwork, empowering teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and customers for organizational success.
–Promotes transparency and inclusivity so that all voices are valued and respected.
Problem Solving:
–Develops and implements organizational strategies for advanced problem-solving, serving as an escalation point for highly complex operational or technical issues.
–Oversees teams leveraging innovative techniques to tackle ambiguous issues and identifies root causes to prevent recurrence, reviewing solutions as needed.
Continuous Learning:
–Champions continuous learning to maintain cutting-edge skills and organizational best practices.
–Inspires teams to maintain expertise by monitoring trends, technologies, and standards, positioning Oracle as an industry leader.
–Contributes to strategy for learning and development, influencing leadership to foster opportunities for growth.
Continuous Improvement:
–Drives a culture of improvement, establishing efficient and effective processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.
–Oversees efforts to implement large-scale improvements, ensuring alignment with goals.
–Sets direction, prioritizes, and approves the roadmap of initiatives to maximize return on investment.
Performance and Development:
–Drives and ensures consistency in performance management strategies, systems, and processes organization-wide.
–Creates a career development culture, encouraging proactive pursuit of growth and guiding leaders to support team development.
–Ensures consistency in talent procedures and communicates performance expectations.
–Partners with HR and executives to envision and execute talent strategy, balancing budget and resources.

Qualifications

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: $169,800 to $355,400 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.
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