Senior Director, Product Management

Oracle•Redwood City, CA

About The Position

The Senior Director, Product Management provides strategic leadership for product management across extensive portfolios of products and features. The role directs market research and analysis, aligns portfolio strategy with Oracle’s objectives, and identifies customer needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements. It champions problem definition and solution development, guides products through planning, development, and release, and establishes long-term roadmap initiatives and organization-wide best practices. The position partners with executive stakeholders and business units to define product direction, drive product innovation, and set success criteria and performance measures such as OKRs and KPIs. It promotes data-driven decisions, customer advocacy, and customer-centric product development; provides oversight for complex customer issues; and coordinates go-to-market and field enablement activities, including early-adopter programs, product demonstrations, and user documentation. The role also provides strategic oversight for large-scale planning and execution, resource allocation, cross-functional collaboration, complex problem solving, continuous learning and improvement, and performance and talent development. Minimum qualifications allow for 12 years of relevant experience, or a bachelor’s degree plus 8 years, or a master’s degree plus 6 years. Preferred qualifications include additional relevant experience and specified leadership, product-domain, agile-methodology, and customer-interaction experience.

Requirements

At least 12 years of experience in product, service, project, or program management; product design; or a related field; OR a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field and at least 8 years of such experience; OR a master’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field and at least 6 years of such experience.
Job skills are specified as the same as the prior level; no specific skills are listed in this posting.

Nice To Haves

Preferred: at least 13 years of relevant product, service, project, or program management, product design, or related experience; OR a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field and at least 9 years of such experience; OR a master’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field and at least 7 years of such experience.
7 years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
6 years of experience in the relevant product domain, such as procurement, accounting, or healthcare.
2 years of experience applying agile methodologies and practices, such as the Scrum framework, to manage projects.
5 years of experience in customer interaction.

Responsibilities

Direct teams conducting market research and analysis across product portfolios, evaluating data and prioritizing initiatives for strategic impact.
Align product portfolios with Oracle’s strategic objectives and refine competitive strategies, positioning, pricing, and market strategy.
Integrate customer feedback, market trends, stakeholder priorities, and long-term organizational goals into product strategy.
Identify customer needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements; champion problem statements and hypotheses for product solutions.
Guide solution identification and govern solution artifacts, including requirements and user documentation.
Oversee product planning, development, lifecycle execution, and release in alignment with strategic objectives.
Establish long-term roadmaps for portfolios of products and features, and guide prioritization based on future needs and success criteria.
Set organization-wide product management practices and advise on feature requirements and resourcing.
Partner with senior executives and stakeholders to drive product direction, delivery excellence, and alignment with business and customer goals.
Use metrics and analytic frameworks—including service requests, bugs, customer feedback, and customer volumes—to support data-driven decisions.
Provide strategic oversight for user stories, acceptance criteria, product quality, and customer satisfaction.
Set and monitor performance measures, including OKRs and KPIs, for products and features.
Drive alignment and communication across business units and teams; guide responses to complex stakeholder challenges.
Govern cross-team user testing and iterative development using user insights.
Promote customer advocacy and customer-centric practices throughout the product lifecycle; empower teams to gather and use actionable customer feedback.
Oversee resolution of complex or high-stakes customer issues.
Coordinate field-team delivery and go-to-market activities, including release overviews, presentations, demonstrations, and early-adopter programs.
Direct user-documentation development and review adoption tracking and improvement initiatives.
Provide strategic oversight for large-scale projects, timelines, deliverables, budgets, delegation, prioritization, and resource allocation.
Set direction for cross-functional partnerships and promote teamwork, transparency, and inclusion.
Develop organizational approaches to complex problem-solving and oversee root-cause analysis and resolution of operational or technical issues.
Champion continuous learning, monitor trends and technologies, and contribute to learning and development strategy.
Drive continuous improvement and oversee large-scale process and workflow improvements; prioritize initiatives for return on investment.
Guide organization-wide performance management, career development, talent procedures, and performance expectations in partnership with HR and executives.