Principal Product Manager - Compute

Oracle • Nashville, TN

28d • $92,900 - $209,500 • Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a Principal Product Manager focused on Compute products. The individual will own the strategy, requirements, priorities, and roadmap for a compute product area. This involves working directly with customers to understand their workload needs and adoption barriers, evaluating processor and platform choices with silicon partners and OCI engineering, and writing decision papers for leadership to recommend product investments and roadmap choices. The role also includes leading product decisions through development and launch, tracking adoption and business performance, and using that data to guide future investments. The company is a leader in AI and cloud solutions, aiming to empower everyone to contribute and offering competitive benefits.

Requirements

• Typically 8+ years of relevant industry experience, including 3+ years of product management experience with ownership of requirements, roadmap priorities, business tradeoffs, and product outcomes.
• Direct experience developing, evaluating, deploying, or bringing to market CPUs, GPUs, or AI accelerators, with technical depth in at least one category.
• Enough understanding of processor and system architecture to evaluate engineering proposals, challenge benchmark claims, and defend technical recommendations with experienced engineers.
• Prior product management responsibility for a processor, compute platform, or related infrastructure product. Your experience includes defining requirements, setting priorities, making business tradeoffs, and following a product through launch and adoption.
• Evidence of consequential product decisions you made: the alternatives considered, the supporting technical and customer evidence, and the results.
• Experience authoring decision papers or comparable proposals and defending recommendations with technical and business leaders.
• Ability to connect workload performance and system costs to pricing, customer value, and an investment case.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with cloud compute products or data center platforms.
• Experience working with processor vendors, system suppliers, or infrastructure customers on product requirements and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, requirements, priorities, and roadmap for a compute product area.
• Work directly with customers to identify workload needs and adoption barriers. Decide which opportunities warrant investment and which do not.
• Work with silicon partners and OCI engineering to evaluate processor and platform choices across performance, memory, interconnect, power, software readiness, cost, and delivery timing.
• Write decision papers for leadership that establish the context, assess alternatives, and recommend product investments, roadmap choices, and pricing. Make assumptions, economics, risks, and requested decisions explicit.
• Present and defend recommendations in leadership reviews. Resolve open questions and revise proposals when the evidence changes.
• Lead product decisions through development and launch, including scope tradeoffs, positioning, pricing, and readiness for customer use.
• Track adoption, workload competitiveness, and business performance. Use the results to change priorities and guide subsequent investments.
• Prioritizes products/features based on evaluations of business value, feasibility, and user needs (internal and/or external).
• Ensures alignment between the customer, the market, and Oracle's goals and strategy.
• Analyzes market trends and the competitive landscape to maintain a competitive position.
• Engages customers, non-customers, partners, and industry analysts to gather market information and identify opportunities for products.
• Leads efforts to identify customers' unmet or unknown needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements.
• Guides internal teams to define problem statements for complex products and develops hypotheses for new products.
• Independently owns and drives the solutioning process by collaborating with stakeholders.
• Drives evaluation and validation of solutions to inform decisions on enhancing products/features.
• Creates, maintains, and reviews solution artifacts (e.g., regulatory, functional, and non-functional requirements).
• Takes ownership of planning, execution, and release processes.
• Owns roadmaps for multiple products/features, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Develops feature requirements, resources, and best practices for stakeholders.
• Drives delivery excellence and resolves risks and issues.
• Tracks and analyzes metrics (e.g., service requests, bugs, feedback) to make data-driven product decisions.
• Writes and reviews user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Determines feature and experience priorities to support OKRs (Objectives and Key Results).
• Acts as an innovation leader, shaping product strategy and direction.
• Guides product development to improve customer experience and achieve business goals.
• Drives new feature development using agile and continuous-delivery methodologies.
• Shares insights with partners and ensures cross-team alignment.
• Anticipates and manages stakeholder pushback using expertise and data.
• Partners with engineering and senior teams to identify solutions linked to OKRs and KPIs.
• Oversees business impact across organizations, managing success criteria and performance metrics.
• Establishes parameters for user testing and product iteration.
• Serves as the primary customer advocate throughout the product lifecycle.
• Actively engages with customers to gather feedback and insights.
• Works with customers to align Oracle products to business goals.
• Captures and analyzes customer requirements for new product capabilities and feature designs.
• Ensures products are tailored to consumer needs during implementations.
• Reviews and prioritizes customer issues for satisfaction and quality, coordinating resolutions.
• Develops release overviews, presentations, and demos for field teams.
• Recruits and supports early adopters to validate solutions.
• Contributes to the development of user documentation.
• Defines and tracks product adoption metrics, identifying user behavior trends.
• Presents demos to customers, partners, analysts, and field teams to promote value.
• Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables for projects.
• Delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans as needed.
• Collaborates across the organization to align expectations and achieve objectives.
• Leverages understanding of leaders, stakeholders, and customers to ensure solutions meet needs.
• Supports inclusivity by seeking and respecting diverse perspectives.
• Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a range of data/information.
• Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with assessments and suggested solutions.
• Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem-solving strategies.
• Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge, skills, and tools.
• Stays updated with industry trends and best practices.
• Seeks and uses ongoing feedback and training; coaches and mentors junior team members.
• Develops and recommends process improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Evaluates the impact on key stakeholders and solicits feedback for continued improvement.
• Contributes to the talent pipeline by participating in interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
• May be eligible for bonus and equity.
• Competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options.
• Volunteer programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: Associate degree