Senior Director, Product Management

Oracle is a leading technology company that specializes in data, infrastructure, applications, and AI solutions. They are seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to direct teams in market research and product development, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and customer needs while driving product innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Directs teams to conduct market research and analysis, enabling the organization to evaluate data patterns across diverse portfolios and prioritize initiatives with the highest strategic impact
• Guides teams to ensure that the product portfolio aligns with Oracle's strategic objectives, continuously refining competitive strategies to lead in the marketplace
• Governs alignment efforts that integrate customer feedback, market trends, internal stakeholder priorities, and Oracle’s long-term goals
• Sets strategic direction for product positioning, pricing, and market strategy, ensuring Oracle's sustained leadership and innovation in the industry
• Directs teams identifying and capitalizing on customers' unmet needs, market opportunities, and/or regulatory requirements, shaping the organization's strategic direction and product portfolio
• Champions internal teams in developing problem statements and forming hypotheses for new products, ensuring alignment with long-term customer needs, emerging market trends, and organizational goals
• Guides solution identification processes, providing strategic oversight as needed
• Governs the creation and maintenance of solution artifacts (e.g., regulatory requirements, functional and non-functional requirements, user documentation), offering guidance as necessary
• Guides the planning, execution, and release processes for the organization’s entire product lifecycle, ensuring alignment with the overall strategic vision
• Establishes long-term initiatives for evolving the product roadmap for an extensive portfolio of products/features, ensuring coherence with the organization’s long-term goals
• Advises others in establishing and developing feature requirements and resources, setting innovative best practices organization-wide
• Collaborates with senior executive stakeholders to drive delivery excellence, maintain project timelines, and ensure success
• Champions analytic frameworks for existing metrics (e.g., Service Requests, bugs, customer feedback, customer volumes) and data-driven decision-making to achieve optimal product development and market impact
• Provides strategic oversight for the development and review of user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring unparalleled product quality and customer satisfaction
• Forecasts future needs and guides prioritization of features or experiences in the roadmap, aligning them with ambitious success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
• Partners with key stakeholders at the executive level to drive product direction in alignment with the company's vision, business goals, and customer needs
• Sets direction for product development to deliver exceptional customer experiences and achieve business goals aligned with Oracle's future state
• Guides business performance and operations reviews to track progress and identify opportunities for improvement
• Strategizes the innovation and evolution of products through identification and prioritization of new features and enhancements
• Drives alignment across business units, ensuring strategic insights are shared effectively and communication channels are optimized at all levels
• Reviews and influences established guidance to equip employees to proactively address and navigate complex stakeholder pushback
• Directs the development and execution of innovative solutions tied to OKRs and KPIs, driving organizational transformation
• Establishes success criteria and performance metrics (OKRs, KPIs) for multiple products and features, ensuring alignment with the organization’s strategic vision
• Governs cross-team user testing and iterative development, using user insights to drive innovation and leadership
• Provides strategic oversight to teams advocating for customers, ensuring feedback is a critical part of the product lifecycle and overall business strategy
• Empowers employees to engage effectively with customers, gather actionable feedback, and utilize analytics to inform strategic decision-making and improve Oracle’s offerings
• Leads teams in adopting a customer-centric approach to identify, prioritize, and execute enhancements that provide transformative business value
• Forecasts new product capabilities and feature designs, leveraging deep customer insights and market trends
• Champions alignment between products and customer needs, leading initiatives to continuously adapt to, and anticipate, market shifts
• Coordinates cross-functional collaboration, maximizing product consumer satisfaction and product success
• Provides oversight on resolving complex and high-stakes customer issues, ensuring customer satisfaction and product quality
• Guides the review, validation, and strategic coordination of delivery for the field team (e.g., release overview, field presentations, demos)
• Governs the process of recruiting and supporting early adopters to validate and refine product solutions, offering strategic oversight as needed
• Directs development of user documentation to ensure accuracy and alignment across the organization
• Performs high-level review of the product adoption tracking process, ensuring improvement initiatives align with long-term strategic goals
• Guides product demonstrations for customers, partners, industry analysts, and field, engaging key stakeholders to gather feedback
• Provides strategic oversight in managing and executing large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets to ensure success
• Sets strategies for delegation, priority setting, and aligning projects with business needs
• Drives the strategic planning process across teams, providing guidance on resource allocation and anticipating changes
• Sets strategic direction for collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of expectations and objectives
• Drives a culture of teamwork, empowering teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and customers for organizational success
• Promotes transparency and inclusivity so that all voices are valued and respected
• Develops and implements organizational strategies for advanced problem-solving, serving as an escalation point for highly complex operational or technical issues
• Oversees teams leveraging innovative techniques to tackle ambiguous issues and identifies root causes to prevent recurrence, reviewing solutions as needed
• Champions continuous learning to maintain cutting-edge skills and organizational best practices
• Inspires teams to maintain expertise by monitoring trends, technologies, and standards, positioning Oracle as an industry leader
• Contributes to strategy for learning and development, influencing leadership to foster opportunities for growth
• Drives a culture of improvement, establishing efficient and effective processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization
• Oversees efforts to implement large-scale improvements, ensuring alignment with goals
• Sets direction, prioritizes, and approves the roadmap of initiatives to maximize return on investment
• Drives and ensures consistency in performance management strategies, systems, and processes organization-wide
• Creates a career development culture, encouraging proactive pursuit of growth and guiding leaders to support team development
• Ensures consistency in talent procedures and communicates performance expectations
• Partners with HR and executives to envision and execute talent strategy, balancing budget and resources

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in product management or related field
• Ability to read, write, and speak English
• Experience in conducting market research and analysis
• Experience in guiding product lifecycle from planning to release
• Experience in establishing long-term initiatives for product roadmap
• Experience in developing problem statements and solutions
• Experience in driving product innovation and evolution
• Experience in establishing success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., OKRs and KPIs)
• Experience in customer advocacy and customer-centric approaches
• Experience in guiding resolution development for complex customer issues
• Experience in coordinating go-to-market efforts
• Experience in managing and executing large-scale projects or initiatives
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Experience in advanced problem-solving
• Experience in continuous learning and improvement
• Experience in performance management and development