Lead Principal Product Manager

Oracle•Nashville, TN

4d•$119,200 - $264,100

About The Position

Oracle is seeking a Lead Principal Product Manager to set product strategy and direction, prioritize products and features based on business value, feasibility, and user needs, and align product plans with Oracle’s goals and market demands. The role leads engagement with strategic customers, prospective customers, partners, and industry analysts to understand market trends, uncover opportunities, and identify customer needs. It establishes approaches for developing and validating complex product solutions, maintains roadmaps across multiple products or features, and drives delivery excellence and continuous improvement. The position guides product lifecycle practices across the Line of Business, including requirements, roadmaps, quality expectations, success criteria, and performance measures such as OKRs and KPIs. It champions customer needs throughout the product lifecycle, gathers and synthesizes feedback and requirements, prioritizes customer issues, and aligns product capabilities with customer business goals. The role also leads go-to-market activities, supports early adopters, develops release materials and documentation, presents product demonstrations, and defines and tracks adoption metrics. The Lead Principal Product Manager coordinates with engineering, cross-functional teams, senior colleagues, business leaders, and external stakeholders to advance strategic objectives. It manages high-impact initiatives, addresses complex problems and risks, shares industry expertise, promotes learning and innovation, mentors others, and contributes to talent assessment and development.

Responsibilities

Prioritize products and features by evaluating business value, feasibility, and user needs.
Engage strategic customers, prospective customers, partners, and industry analysts to gather market information and identify product opportunities.
Analyze market trends and the competitive landscape to establish strategic product positioning.
Establish strategies for identifying unmet customer needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements.
Guide teams in defining problem statements and data-driven hypotheses for complex or breakthrough products.
Partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify, evaluate, and validate product solutions.
Create and maintain complex solution artifacts, including regulatory, functional, and non-functional requirements.
Set product lifecycle direction and maintain roadmaps for multiple products and features in alignment with Oracle’s vision and market needs.
Establish feature requirements, resources, and best practices, and promote continuous improvement.
Drive delivery excellence, manage risks, and resolve complex issues affecting project success.
Use product and market metrics, including service requests, bugs, customer feedback, and customer volumes, to inform product decisions.
Set product quality expectations through the creation and review of user stories and acceptance criteria.
Shape roadmap features and align them with success criteria and OKRs.
Set product strategy, direction, and long-term vision, and direct product development to meet customer and business goals.
Promote new feature-development methodologies, including agile and continuous-delivery practices.
Share strategic insights with cross-functional partners and Lines of Business, build alignment, and address stakeholder concerns using expertise and data.
Guide collaboration with engineering and senior colleagues to deliver solutions tied to OKRs and KPIs.
Own transformative business impact across Lines of Business and oversee success criteria and performance metrics for multiple products and features.
Provide parameters for user testing and guide product iteration based on test results.
Anticipate and address customer needs throughout the product lifecycle, gather and synthesize customer feedback and requirements, and align product capabilities with customer business goals.
Prioritize critical customer issues and partner with product development on resolution.
Lead go-to-market work, including release overviews, field presentations, demonstrations, early-adopter support, and user documentation.
Define and track adoption metrics for multiple product lines and use insights to improve products.
Manage timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical, high-impact initiatives; adapt resource and timeline plans as priorities change.
Influence cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders, build partnerships, and incorporate diverse perspectives.
Lead advanced problem-solving and serve as an escalation point for complex issues; guide data-driven root-cause analysis and preventive solutions.
Monitor industry trends, technologies, and standards; contribute thought leadership and promote knowledge sharing and professional development.
Develop and implement process improvements, assess their effectiveness, and define metrics to measure their success.
Provide subject matter expertise on talent needs and organizational talent strategy, and contribute to interviewing, candidate assessment, hiring decisions, and talent development.