Lead Principal Product Manager

Oracle is a leading company in AI and cloud solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Principal Product Manager for Robotics, Perception, and Embodied AI. The role involves defining and driving the product strategy for intelligent systems and working closely with various teams to translate research and customer needs into scalable products.

Responsibilities:

• Define the multi-year vision, strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for robotics, perception, and embodied AI
• Build deep relationships with strategic customers, understand their business and technical objectives, and translate those needs into repeatable product capabilities
• Serve as the product counterpart to Applied Science and Engineering, defining target use cases, requirements, evaluation metrics, operating constraints, and production-readiness criteria
• Own product areas such as multimodal perception, sensor fusion, spatial understanding, robot learning, navigation, manipulation, simulation, human-robot interaction, and fleet intelligence
• Prioritize across research, platform capabilities, customer commitments, technical debt, and commercialization opportunities
• Define success measures including task completion, intervention rate, safety, latency, reliability, generalization, deployment time, utilization, and cost per task
• Drive the full product lifecycle from discovery and prototype through beta, launch, scaled deployment, and continuous improvement
• Identify and mitigate risks across AI models, robotics software, hardware, cloud infrastructure, security, safety, and operations
• Develop pricing, packaging, adoption, and business cases in partnership with Finance and go-to-market teams
• Lead launches, customer enablement, product positioning, technical collateral, demonstrations, and executive presentations
• Influence across teams without formal authority and mentor other product managers

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of product management experience
• Demonstrated success delivering complex AI, robotics, autonomy, cloud, edge, or distributed-systems products
• Experience partnering with scientists and engineers to productize probabilistic or nondeterministic systems
• Strong knowledge of several robotics domains, such as perception, localization, planning, control, manipulation, simulation, or embodied foundation models
• Experience defining product metrics, technical requirements, business cases, and production-readiness standards
• Proven ability to lead exceptionally complex, cross-organizational initiatives independently
• Strong customer, analytical, written, and executive-presentation skills
• 17 years of experience in product/service/project/program management, product design, or related field
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field AND 13 years of experience in product/service/project/program management, product design, or related field
• Master's Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field AND 11 years of experience in product/service/project/program management, product design, or related field
• 3 years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports
• 6 years of experience in the relevant product domain (e.g., procurement, accounting, healthcare)
• 2 years of experience in applying agile methodologies and practices (e.g., Scrum framework) to manage projects
• 5 years of experience in customer interaction
• Product management or product domain related certifications (e.g., SAFe Scrum Master Certification, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager Certification, Project Management Professional Certification, American Production and Inventory Control Society [APICS] Certifications)