Principal Product Manager

Oracle•Nashville, TN

14d

About The Position

The Principal Product Manager prioritizes products and features by evaluating business value, feasibility, and user needs, ensuring alignment with Oracle’s goals and strategies. The role engages customers, non-customers, partners, and industry analysts to gather market information and identify product opportunities, and leads teams in identifying customer needs, developing solutions, and validating them. The position owns development and roadmapping processes for multiple products or features, including requirements, planning, execution, and release. It shapes product strategy and direction, drives innovation and feature development, and collaborates across functions to achieve business objectives. The role establishes and oversees success criteria and performance metrics, advocates for customers throughout the product lifecycle, and aligns product capabilities with customers’ business goals. The role also supports go-to-market activities, recruits and supports early adopters, presents product demonstrations, contributes to documentation, and tracks adoption metrics to improve adoption and user satisfaction. Additional responsibilities include coordinating project work, addressing moderately complex problems, supporting continuous improvement and learning, mentoring junior team members, and participating in interviews and hiring recommendations.

Responsibilities

Prioritize products and features based on business value, feasibility, user needs, market conditions, and Oracle’s goals and strategy.
Analyze market trends and the competitive landscape and engage customers, non-customers, partners, and industry analysts to identify product opportunities.
Identify unmet customer needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements; define problem statements and hypotheses for complex products.
Own and drive solution development with stakeholders, evaluate and validate solutions, and create, maintain, and review solution artifacts and requirements.
Own planning, execution, release processes, and roadmaps for multiple products or features, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
Develop feature requirements, write and review user stories and acceptance criteria, prioritize features and experiences to support OKRs, and establish practices for stakeholders.
Drive delivery excellence, resolve risks and issues, and use product metrics such as service requests, bugs, and feedback to inform decisions.
Shape product strategy and direction, guide product development to improve customer experience, and drive new feature development using agile and continuous-delivery methodologies.
Share insights with partners, align cross-functional teams, manage stakeholder pushback, and partner with engineering and senior teams on solutions tied to OKRs and KPIs.
Oversee business impact and success criteria across organizations, manage performance metrics, and establish parameters for user testing and product iteration.
Advocate for customers throughout the product lifecycle; gather feedback and requirements, align products with customer business goals, tailor products to consumer needs during implementation, and coordinate resolution of customer issues.
Develop release overviews, presentations, and demos; recruit and support early adopters; contribute to user documentation; and track product adoption metrics and user behavior.
Coordinate moderately complex project tasks, timelines, and deliverables; delegate and prioritize work, provide technical oversight, and adjust plans as needed.
Collaborate across the organization, account for stakeholder and customer needs, and support inclusivity by seeking and respecting diverse perspectives.
Analyze information to address moderately complex problems, escalate critical or unresolved issues with assessments and suggested solutions, and document problem-solving strategies.
Pursue learning, stay current with industry trends and best practices, seek feedback and training, and coach and mentor junior team members.
Recommend process improvements, assess their impact on stakeholders, and solicit feedback to support continued improvement.
Participate in interviews, assess candidates, and provide hiring recommendations.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
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) plan with company match
Paid time off, including flexible vacation for eligible salaried employees or accrued vacation for other eligible employees
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
May be eligible for bonus and equity