Senior Principal Technical Product Manager

About the Role: Senior Principal Technical Product Manager at Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top-tier enterprises around the world, offering unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services in over 50 regions. OCI is expanding beyond traditional public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge computing. Within the Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, we are reimagining the cloud, building a platform for autonomous cloud vision and services, and transforming everything from runtime environments to the software development lifecycle and operations. Our team combines start-up agility with the scale of a global leader, embarking on a greenfield, industry-first project that will fundamentally shift cloud perception and utilization.

Are you passionate about bold, industry-defining innovation in cloud computing? As a Senior Principal Technical Product Manager, you will have a rare opportunity to drive the vision, strategy, and execution for OCI’s next-generation cloud service platform. You will play a pivotal leadership role, shaping what autonomous cloud infrastructure can be, building the product team from the ground up, and collaborating with thought leaders transforming the future of cloud.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the creation of the autonomous cloud platform’s product vision, strategy, and roadmap, directly tied to OCI’s mission of transforming cloud infrastructure at hyper-scale.
• Engage with top-tier internal and external customers, developers, and partners to shape product direction and prioritize features that anticipate evolving use cases and business models.
• Champion a data-driven, customer-first approach, balancing ambitious innovation with operational excellence and reliability.
• Serve as an internal and external evangelist for OCI’s autonomous cloud vision.
• Drive the adoption strategy by identifying key customer segments and crafting compelling value propositions.
• Build the business case for this work, including defining metrics and KPIs to measure success.

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years’ experience in product management for highly technical enterprise software, cloud, or platform products, with a track record of shipping mission-critical solutions.
• Prior experience building, leading, and mentoring teams through the entire product lifecycle, ideally in greenfield or transformative environments.
• Deep technical and business understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, runtime environments, and developer ecosystems.
• Exceptional ability to define, articulate, and execute innovations that drive market shifts.
• Proven collaboration skills, with experience engaging diverse teams, including engineering, operations, design, sales, and senior leadership.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and communication capabilities, with a relentless focus on customer value and business outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial drive, bold thinking, and comfort with ambiguity and rapid change.
• Familiarity with cloud technology, logic, and computer science.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Vision & Strategy: Define and implement the vision, strategy, and roadmap for autonomous cloud products, in line with the TSO portfolio strategy.
• Customer-Centric Approach: Engage with stakeholders to gather insights, ensuring products address market needs and improve customer experiences.
• Product Development & Innovation: Drive new product development and enhancements to existing solutions, utilizing innovative approaches to meet market demands and improve competitive positioning.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, marketing, sales, and other teams to manage product releases, integration, and successful deployment to clients.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Leverage market research, analytics, and feedback to inform product direction and prioritize features based on customer impact and business goals.
• Agile Product Management: Own the product backlog, define user stories, and lead Agile development to deliver solutions that address real-world autonomous cloud challenges.
• Thought Leadership & Evangelism: Serve as a product ambassador, sharing the product vision and strategy through presentations, conferences, and social media.
• Quality & Continuous Improvement: Maintain a focus on delivering high-quality solutions and fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 10+ years of experience as hands-on product manager for customer-facing product.
• Experience launching and operating customer-facing cloud services.
• Experience training sales/field engineers on service/platform features.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of product management, product design or related experience.
• BS degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience (MS Preferred).
• Thorough understanding of public cloud infrastructure services, such as Compute, Storage, Identity and Networking.
• Demonstrated knowledge of AWS, Azure or Google IaaS, SaaS and PaaS services.

Key skills/competency

• Product Management
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Distributed Systems
• Product Strategy
• Roadmap Development
• Customer Engagement
• Agile Methodologies
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Business Case Development
• Technical Evangelism