Senior Product Manager, OKE

Oracle•Nashville, TN

9d•$77,200 - $187,000

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Product Manager to define and deliver capabilities for Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). The role works with developers, platform engineers, and enterprise customers to understand their needs and translate them into product experiences that simplify Kubernetes adoption and production operations. As an individual contributor, the Senior Product Manager owns the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for a defined area within OKE. Working closely with engineering, user experience, solutions architects, and field teams, the role guides capabilities from customer discovery through launch and adoption. The position balances the evolution of Kubernetes and its ecosystem with enterprise requirements for reliability, security, scalability, usability, and cost efficiency.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant experience, including product management for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, developer platforms, or enterprise software.
Strong technical understanding of Kubernetes architecture, containers, cluster lifecycle management, and production cloud environments.
Familiarity with cloud networking, compute, storage, IAM, registries, and observability and their role in running containerized applications.
Experience developing products for platform engineering or DevOps teams, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, or GitOps workflows.
Demonstrated success defining product requirements, prioritizing roadmaps, and delivering capabilities from discovery through launch and adoption.
Strong customer research and analytical skills, with the ability to connect customer problems, product usage, and business outcomes.
Clear written and verbal communication, sound technical judgment, and ability to influence engineering and business stakeholders across teams.

Responsibilities

Engage developers, platform engineers, application owners, and enterprise customers to understand Kubernetes adoption and operational challenges; evaluate ecosystem trends, competing platforms, and migration requirements to identify opportunities for OKE.
Own the roadmap for a product area, defining customer problems, priorities, and success criteria, and making tradeoffs across customer value, technical complexity, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
Define experiences that simplify cluster onboarding, configuration, node management, upgrades, scaling, and ongoing operations.
Improve workload deployment and integration of OKE with customers’ existing toolchains, partnering with teams responsible for Terraform, Resource Manager, OCI DevOps, registries, and APIs.
Translate customer requirements for availability, performance, security, observability, and cost into product priorities; partner with engineering to address operational friction, compatibility concerns, and recurring support issues.
Develop requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria with engineering and design; coordinate dependencies across compute, networking, storage, identity, and other OCI services, and validate the customer experience before release.
Recruit design partners and early adopters, validate capabilities, and coordinate release readiness; work with product marketing, solutions architects, documentation, and field teams on positioning, demonstrations, enablement, and adoption.
Establish and use metrics such as onboarding completion, time to deploy workloads, successful upgrades, production adoption, and reduced operational effort; use telemetry, customer feedback, and support trends to evaluate outcomes and refine the roadmap.