Lead Principal Product Manager

Job Description Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building capabilities that connect laboratory instruments, robotics, scientific applications, and cloud services. We are seeking a Senior Principal Product Manager to lead product direction for laboratory automation and robotics, beginning with strategic scientific customers and developing capabilities that can support additional laboratories and workflows. This senior individual contributor role owns product strategy, customer discovery, roadmap, and product outcomes for a complex technical product area. You will work independently across engineering, applied science, design, customer teams, and automation partners to turn laboratory needs into a credible product and investment plan. You will combine detailed understanding of physical workflows with the commercial judgment needed to build a repeatable offering. Responsibilities Define the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and investment recommendations for laboratory automation and robotics within the broader product direction. Balance immediate customer commitments with reusable capabilities and a clear path to broader adoption. Work directly with scientists, laboratory operators, automation engineers, and customer leaders. Observe laboratory workflows, identify operational constraints, and prioritize opportunities using scientific value, throughput, operator effort, reliability, and deployment economics. Own product definition from discovery through pilot, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement. Establish pilot scope, acceptance criteria, success measures, and the evidence needed to recommend further investment. Define requirements for coordinating instruments, robots, materials, scientific applications, and human activities. Address equipment state, resource availability, access, approvals, monitoring, exception handling, traceability, and recovery while preserving local equipment control and safety authority. Shape reusable integration and onboarding requirements for laboratory instruments, liquid handlers, robotic systems, vendor software, laboratory information management systems, and electronic laboratory notebooks. Distinguish common product capabilities from customer configuration and custom integration work. Partner with engineering leaders and architects on scope and sequencing. Resolve product tradeoffs across customer value, technical feasibility, safety, security, reliability, cost, and delivery time. Coordinate shared requirements with the product owner for scientific computing and genomics. Define useful applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and agents in laboratory workflows with applied scientists and engineers. Establish product requirements for evaluation, human oversight, and measurable scientific and operational benefit. Develop market and competitive insight, product positioning, adoption plans, and business cases. Work with commercial and customer teams on value propositions, packaging, pricing recommendations, and deployment models. Measure workflow completion, operator intervention, instrument onboarding effort, reliability, utilization, adoption, and cost. Use customer evidence and operational results to revise priorities and improve product economics. Represent product strategy and recommendations to executives, customers, and partners. Independently resolve complex issues across teams, mentor other product managers, and improve product practices without relying on formal management authority. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Life Sciences, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. 10+ years of relevant experience in product management, including substantial ownership of complex customer facing products from discovery through delivery and adoption. Demonstrated ability to independently lead product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, and investment recommendations across multiple engineering and partner teams. Experience working directly with technically demanding customers and translating detailed operational workflows into scalable product capabilities and measurable outcomes. Strong technical judgment in automation systems, workflow orchestration, cloud platforms, distributed systems, or products combining hardware and software. Ability to engage engineers and architects on integration and operational tradeoffs. Experience making consequential product decisions using customer research, usage data, pilot results, and business economics. Strong written communication, executive presentation, negotiation, and influence across organizations. Preferred Qualifications Direct experience in laboratory automation, robotics, scientific instruments, industrial automation, or integration of physical systems with software. Experience taking laboratory or scientific workflows from discovery through deployed pilots, production operation, and repeatable customer adoption. Familiarity with life sciences research, laboratory informatics, equipment vendors, physical state, simulation, or recovery of interrupted automated procedures. Experience with AI enabled scientific workflows, agent evaluation, or governed automation, and with cloud product commercialization and partner ecosystems. Qualifications Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. US: Hiring Range in USD from: $119,200 - $264,100 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only 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. 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