Senior director product management

Oracle
Springfield, IL

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers high-performance, secure, and scalable compute and AI infrastructure for mission-critical workloads. We are seeking a Senior Director (M5) to lead the Outbound Product Management organization for OCI's Compute and AI Infrastructure portfolio. This single-threaded leader will own market and competitive insights, benchmarking strategy, data and analytics for product health, and customer adoption programs. The role partners closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Customer Success to inform roadmap and investment decisions, accelerate adoption of newly launched services, and drive customer and revenue growth with clear, executive-ready communications and recommendations.

Strategy and Insight

  • Perform continuous market, customer, and competitive analysis across cloud compute and AI infrastructure to inform roadmap, positioning, and investments.

  • Establish an insights operating cadence and narrative that delivers timely, data-driven recommendations to OCI leadership.

Benchmarks

  • Define and execute end-to-end benchmarking strategy for competitive advantage across compute and AI workloads.

  • Own benchmark program management: definitions, proof-of-concept plans, execution coordination, and publication.

  • Align benchmark results with pricing, positioning, and field guidance.

Data and Analytics

  • Build the product health and business analytics foundation: customer segmentation, growth funnels, top customer health, regional profitability, demand projections, and margin/COGS analysis.

  • Generate dashboards and metrics that inform product performance and roadmap decisions; ensure data quality, repeatability, and auditability.

Adoption and Growth

  • Own adoption targets for newly launched services; design and execute structured adoption plays by segment, workload, and region.

  • Identify friction points across the customer journey and partner with Product, Engineering, and Field to remove barriers and improve time-to-value.

Communications and thought leadership

  • Own outbound communications for insights, benchmarks, and adoption programs, including PR plans, technical blogs, and analyst briefings in partnership with Comms/Marketing.

  • Ensure message consistency and alignment with OCI priorities across internal and external channels.

Team leadership

  • Hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing PM team; set goals, define operating mechanisms, and foster a customer-centric, data-driven culture.

  • Standardize best practices for research, benchmarking, analytics, and enablement across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

Minimum qualifications

  • 12+ years in product management, product strategy, or product marketing for cloud infrastructure or adjacent enterprise platforms; experience at scale strongly preferred.

  • Proven leadership building market/competitive intelligence, benchmarking programs, and data-driven product health analytics that influence roadmap and investments.

  • Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking) and AI accelerators; ability to engage credibly with engineering and field architects.

  • Demonstrated success driving adoption and growth programs for new services, with measurable impact on pipeline, win rates, and revenue.

  • Exceptional executive communication skills; able to synthesize complex data into clear, actionable recommendations.

  • Strong analytical skills and familiarity with business metrics, forecasting, unit economics, and cost/margin analysis.

  • BS/BA in a technical or quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience leading competitive intelligence functions for hyperscale cloud or semiconductor/infrastructure providers.

  • Hands-on experience with industry-standard compute/AI benchmarking methodologies and translating results into pricing and positioning guidance.

  • Proficiency with data tooling and experimentation frameworks.

  • Track record establishing KPIs and governance for insights, adoption, and enablement programs.

  • Thought leadership: technical blogs, conference talks, analyst/customer briefings.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $155,600 to $338,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

Short term disability and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

11 paid holidays

Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - M5

About Us

As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow's technology to tackle today's challenges. We've partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector-and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.

We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer competitive benefits based on parity and consistency and support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We're committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing [email protected] or by calling +1 888 404 2494 in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Posted 2025-12-16

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