Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager (Chief of Staff)

Oracle • Nashville, TN

4d • $119,200 - $264,100 • Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager (Chief of Staff) partners directly with the Group Vice President (GVP), Systems, to turn the employee-systems strategy into results. The role serves as a trusted adviser to the GVP and represents the GVP’s voice and judgment with direct reports and the broader leadership team. The successful candidate develops a deep understanding of the GVP’s priorities and decision principles to advance work confidently when the GVP is absent.

The position advises on priorities, leads complex initiatives across organizational boundaries, and builds alignment through influence. In delegated forums, the role speaks for the GVP, negotiates tradeoffs, and makes selected commitments within agreed priorities and resource boundaries. It is an individual-contributor role with no employee direct reports.

The role focuses on defining and advancing employee-systems priorities, coordinating strategy and delivery, improving employee experience, and supporting simplification and AI-enabled transformation. New hires must be based in Nashville, Tennessee, and work in the office five days per week; existing Oracle employees may remain at their current location. Approximately 10% travel is expected as needed.

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise in strategic operations, executive advisory work, or organizational transformation, with deep knowledge of industry practices and credibility advising senior leaders.
• Typically 16 or more years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A record of turning leadership priorities into measurable business outcomes and independently leading complex initiatives across functions and organizational boundaries.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to understand a leader’s intent, write in their voice, and represent their position credibly in consequential discussions.
• Sound business judgment and comfort with ambiguity, including the ability to assess incomplete information, make reasoned recommendations, and know when to act independently or seek direction.
• Emotional intelligence, discretion, and composure under pressure; ability to listen, challenge constructively, and navigate sensitive relationships while maintaining focus on outcomes.
• Ability to build trust and lead through influence with senior stakeholders, resolve competing priorities, and sustain accountability without employee reporting authority.
• A bachelor’s degree is preferred; equivalent professional experience will be considered. Demonstrated judgment, executive communication, and results are central to success.
• New hires must be based in Nashville, Tennessee, and work in the office five days per week. Existing Oracle employees may work from their current location.
• Ability to travel approximately 10% as needed.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a Chief of Staff is highly preferred but not required.
• Prior Oracle application experience is highly desired.
• An advanced degree is valued but not required.
• Experience in business operations, transformation, consulting, or product and technology roles is welcome when accompanied by the required executive partnership and judgment.

Responsibilities

• Represent the GVP in leadership and strategic prioritization forums, communicate the GVP’s intent, make selected commitments on the GVP’s behalf, and escalate decisions that materially change agreed scope, resources, or direction.
• Advise the GVP by testing assumptions, framing options, risks, and recommendations, raising difficult issues early, and providing candid counsel while maintaining trust and confidentiality.
• Translate the employee-systems remit into integrated priorities, delivery commitments, and measures, resolving competing demands and aligning dependencies with the GVP and direct reports.
• Lead strategic planning, leadership meetings, business reviews, and decision follow-through, ensuring forums produce clear decisions, accountable owners, and progress toward outcomes.
• Drive selected complex initiatives across business and technology organizations, resolve barriers through influence, structure ambiguous problems, and hold partners accountable for commitments.
• Create executive narratives, presentations, briefings, and written communications that reflect the GVP’s voice and make the needed decision or action clear to each audience.
• Partner with delivery leaders to measure improvements in employee effort, task completion, reliability, performance, and adoption, using employee evidence and business data to recommend priorities and verify results.
• Advance simplification and AI-enabled transformation by identifying practical opportunities, challenging unnecessary complexity, and helping teams test and scale approaches with clear ownership and governance.
• Build trusted relationships with the GVP’s direct reports and the broader leadership team, surface concerns, anticipate friction, and help leaders reach decisions while maintaining organizational alignment.
• Establish an aligned roadmap with priorities, owners, dependencies, and measures; use leadership reviews to resolve tradeoffs and focus delivery on important outcomes.
• Establish baselines and targets and verify measurable improvements in priority employee journeys or services.
• Represent the GVP’s position and judgment in the GVP’s absence, keeping decisions and selected commitments moving within clear boundaries and with timely follow-through.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• 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) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Flexible or accrued paid vacation, depending on eligibility and position.
• 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.
• The posting states the role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior