Principal Program Manager

Are you someone with a passion for taking on big challenges? Are you interested in large-scale, industry-leading cloud services? Do you love to own and drive highly visible critical programs? If so, then Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure team is for you. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to contribute to a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

The Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) will be responsible for managing highly complex, cross-organizational technical programs that impact both product and business for OCI. In addition, this specific role requires a passion for solving high-impact problems and the ability to jump into any in-flight project and get it on the rails. This is an extremely visible, executive-facing role, managing programs at the SVP level of OCI, with visibility and coordination across many executive levels and organizations in OCI.

OCI Compute is looking for a high performing Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) with a background in cloud services, server technology, and software systems who can independently own and drive outcomes across OCI for high priority programs with significant business impact. The ideal candidate has a strong background in cloud infrastructure, operating systems, and compute services, and has familiarity with virtualization, CPU and GPU systems, as well as datacenter management and other scaled systems. The candidate needs the ability to think about business problems from the point of view of our customers, define strategies for programs, identify technical impacts on the organization as they relate to business requirements, drive delivery across service teams, effectively communicate project status and suggest changes to use company resources more efficiently, regularly participate in executive meetings to present progress, and share project information with executives and stakeholders accurately and effectively.

Location: Seattle, WA

Career Level – IC4

Manage multiple cross-functional workstreams and/or programs with a clear strategy for communication, reporting, and delivery. Demonstrate impeccable judgment and prioritization of deliverables and risk mitigation.

Prepare and present executive documents and data-driven reports.

Make recommendations for at-scale improvements and optimize business processes to streamline execution.

Partner well with leaders and peers to reliably provide value to our organization and customers.

Have a strong bias for action; able to navigate ambiguity and the “gray” space

Understand business deliverables and independently putting together a program for delivery

Meet deliverable deadlines by anticipating roadblocks and working with teams and stakeholders to remove them

Create risk management plans and maintain risk register

Define program scope, including estimations for deliverables such as requirements and conceptual design tasks and related documentation

Lead regularly scheduled status meeting with engineering teams, senior stakeholders, and executives; strong written and oral communication is a must

Manage communication across organizations and cross-functional teams

Develop standard program deliverables; i.e. SOWs, Project Charters, Project Timelines

Have strong ownership to manage projects from implementation to completion

Leverage AI tools to optimize processes and workstreams

Basic Qualifications

5+ years leading complex technical / engineering programs, preferably in cloud infrastructure

10+ years relevant work experience in program and project management

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Telecommunications

Proven ability to effectively represent engineering perspectives to partner organizations, product teams, and executive leadership

Ability to work across and engage individuals and teams located across multiple geographies and or cultures.

Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and Development/Engineering staff at all levels including the executive level

Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills

Solid analytical, planning, and interpersonal skills with an ability to handle competing demands

Strong knowledge and understanding of business need with the ability to establish/maintain high level of customer trust and confidence

Ability to mentor junior TPMs

Preferred Qualifications

Extensive experience with cloud services, virtualization, or SaaS products

Self-driven problem solver; able to adapt and thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous, and customer-focused environment

Highly analytical, technically proficient, and able to learn new tools and software quickly

Experience using agile software development practices and associated tooling