Principal Program Manager

Oracle•Nashville, TN

2d•$91,000 - $209,500

About The Position

This high-visibility, high-impact role helps shape operational efficiency, excellence in execution, and growth. It carries significant personal accountability and autonomy and requires effective engagement across organizational functions. The successful candidate will bring a multidisciplinary operations, technology, and business background; experience influencing and presenting to senior business and technology leaders; and a record of driving critical delivery initiatives. Strong executive communication, customer engagement, and cloud operations proficiency are essential. The role is responsible for GPU Observability initiatives, coordinating with multiple vendors and internal teams to deliver successful outcomes. It identifies, prioritizes, and executes a portfolio of programs, manages schedules, budgets, dependencies, risks, and reporting, and establishes scalable project-management frameworks and standards. The position may coordinate the activities of other personnel and performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

At least 5 years of program or project management experience, preferably in cloud.
Direct experience working with cross-organizational teams, including at the executive level.
Proven track record leading highly skilled teams through complex, high-impact challenges.
Strong organization and ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
Ability to work independently and propose solutions.
Ability to influence operational leaders to achieve business objectives.
Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
Proficiency in Excel, including PivotTables, lookups, if-statements, and macros; JIRA queries; and BI tools.
Knowledge of PowerPoint and Confluence.

Responsibilities

Lead GPU Observability initiatives with vendors and internal teams to achieve impactful outcomes.
Influence, activate, and coordinate teams to build alignment and deliver results.
Identify, prioritize, and execute a broad portfolio of functional initiatives and programs.
Plan and direct schedules for multiple concurrent programs.
Partner with global cross-functional teams to understand and capture program requirements.
Navigate dependencies and organizational priorities to optimize critical paths and mitigate risks.
Influence internal and external teams to prioritize work; drive mitigation plans, assign ownership, follow up through program closure, resolve risks and issues, and escalate as necessary.
Manage and analyze portfolio budgets, including spend, forecasts versus budget, spend by program, and historical trends.
Establish scalable end-to-end project frameworks, processes, and tools; manage stakeholders using project-management standards and documentation best practices.
Run standups and sprint-planning exercises for owned programs.
Build and maintain consistent reporting across programs.
Determine methods and procedures for new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel.
Perform other duties as assigned.