Director, Product Management - OCI Application Management
About The Position
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Director of Product Management to define and deliver a new application-centric cloud management experience. The role owns product vision, strategy, and roadmap from initial concept through launch and adoption. In partnership with engineering, user experience, and OCI service teams, the Director will establish a shared application model and bring together resource inventory, observability, cost management, security insights, and operational workflows. The Director will build and develop a product management team, align stakeholders across organizations, and translate customer needs into clear priorities and measurable outcomes. The position leads market and customer research, application modeling and onboarding, delivery of a unified application experience, roadmap execution, cross-service alignment, outcome measurement, product launches, and adoption. The role also coordinates positioning, launch readiness, documentation, demonstrations, and field enablement, using post-launch learning to guide subsequent releases.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of product management experience, with demonstrated success leading complex technology products.
- Strong understanding of how applications are built, deployed, and operated in the cloud.
- 5 or more years of experience building developer-centric products, such as internal developer platforms, developer toolchains, or CI/CD pipelines.
- 5 or more years of people management experience developing product managers and coordinating delivery across multiple teams.
- Strong customer research, analytical, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence executive stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
- Technical fluency in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, APIs, resource management, observability, security, and automation.
- Record of taking products from discovery through launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Identify unmet needs across application owners, developers, platform engineers, and operations teams; assess competing approaches and define target customers, differentiated value, and investment priorities.
- Define how customers discover, group, tag, and maintain cloud resources as applications, including requirements for metadata, ownership, resource associations, and onboarding through the Console, APIs, CLI, and infrastructure as code.
- Deliver an integrated application view of inventory, costs, health, performance, security findings, and operational issues, with paths to relevant OCI services for investigation and action.
- Own the roadmap from initial release through expanded service coverage and enterprise adoption; translate customer problems into requirements and acceptance criteria while balancing usability, technical dependencies, reliability, and delivery commitments.
- Hire, coach, and develop product managers; establish ownership, performance expectations, and development plans, and communicate product direction, investment decisions, and delivery tradeoffs to leadership.
- Partner with OCI teams responsible for resource discovery, identity, observability, security, billing, and automation; align application definitions, permissions, integration contracts, and customer workflows.
- Establish success measures such as onboarding completion, application coverage, active usage, and time to investigate operational issues; use customer feedback, usability research, and product telemetry to improve adoption and reduce operational effort.
- Recruit design partners and early adopters to validate the experience; coordinate positioning, launch readiness, documentation, demonstrations, and field enablement, and incorporate post-launch learning into subsequent releases.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Life insurance and AD&D.
- Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
- Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on eligibility and position; accrual details are provided in the posting.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Financial planning and group legal benefits.
- Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits.
- May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
- Volunteer programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
