Senior Product Manager/Strategy

Oracle Database Cloud Services is one of the most popular database cloud services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with wide adoption across the globe. We are seeking a dynamic and creative Senior Product Manager with expertise and passion in delivering best-in-class Database Cloud Services, including Exadata Cloud Service in OCI public cloud, Exadata Cloud At Customer, and Base Database Service. As a product manager, you should be customer-focused, possess a product development mindset, and be able to envision the next-generation capabilities and functionality for Database Cloud Services. You will be driving activities in key areas related to roadmap definition, product requirements, feature prioritization, collateral creation, outbound communication, reference generation, and both pre-sales and post-sales support.

Our development team is a close-knit, exciting, and diverse group of people with tremendous passion for the product. We continually engage with our customers to ensure their successful adoption of our services and take great pride in empowering them. You should be able to understand functional requirements and architect solutions while being very hands-on and able to dive deep into any part of the stack. You should be able to work comfortably in a collaborative, agile, and fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate will provide:

Product Requirements:

• Ability to influence and communicate with geographically distributed cross-functional teams across all levels of management
• Ability to guide functional projects from design through implementation
• Ability to work collaboratively with engineering on product requirements and designs
• Experience engaging with customers and influencing business leaders
• Gather, manage, and prioritize market/customer requirements and product features
• Create business cases and requirements for new features
• Advocate for the customer by articulating the user needs
• Documentation review
• Provide feedback to engineering on how well the product meets business and customer goals

Go-To-Market Activities:

• Introduce new products to sales, customers, support
• Webcasts, datasheets, FAQs, white papers, websites, blogs, etc.
• Customer references and stories
• Evangelize product both internally and externally

Support:

• Review and test new features to ensure customer expectations are met
• Ongoing product support
• Product training
• Customer briefings and assistance
• Customer forums
• Escalation management

Market analysis:

• Market research
• Competitive analysis

Requirements:

• Three or more years of technical background preferably in enterprise computing, database technologies, cloud infrastructure, and systems (virtualization, storage, networking, OS). Candidates from engineering, technical sales may also apply to this position.
• BS / MS in Computer Science or Masters in Business Administration with technical background
• Technical expertise in enterprise cloud architectures
• Analytical skills, with a passion to solve complex technology problems
• Demonstrated ability to learn fast, adapt, and manage multiple complex projects/priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Demonstrated ability to work across geographically dispersed cross-functional teams.
• Experience interacting directly with customers
• Superior analytical and quantitative skills
• Excellent writing and presentation skills

Career Level - IC3