Principal Program Manager

Job Description

The Compute Control Plane team in Oracle's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) organization is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to join our fast growing team in Nashville!


The OCI Compute Control Plane team is at the center of many of OCI's most critical business goals. We are challenged with scaling our services to meet growing demand, delivering critical features for our customers to help them manage their Compute instances, and delivering support for new HW platforms. We support both Bare Metal and Virtual machine instances across a diverse fleet of HW, including clustered GPU platforms. In addition, our customers demand high availability and security from our Cloud. We need a program leader who can thrive in ambiguity, work on complex, critical programs involving dozens of teams, build strong relationships with stakeholders and partner teams, and drive our teams to solve problems with significant business impact. We seek someone who can inspire others, and explain the "why" behind every project and every priority call.


This role will have focus areas in our Compute metering and also power management spaces. The role will involve contributing to the strategic vision, setting near-term roadmap items, executing on delivery in an efficient manner, cultivating a culture of high standards for quality and delivery, and growing the team. The successful hire will have the ability to understand and coordinate deeply technical work, is able to communicate clearly up to and including executive-level leadership, is adept at cross-organization problem solving, can organize complex work across multiple teams, and thrives in a high-impact, fast-paced environment.


This is a highly visible and impactful role based in Nashville, TN. You will be co-located with key leadership to maximize collaboration, accelerate delivery, and support OCI's strategic growth initiatives.


Note that this role is onsite in our downtown Nashville offices and Oracle is now 5 days in the office.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Program Leadership: Own planning, execution, and delivery for complex OCI Compute programs spanning multiple engineering teams and partner organizations. Drive programs from problem definition through launch, adoption, and operational readiness.


Execution & Delivery: Define milestones, dependencies, risks, decision points, and success metrics. Ensure teams have clear plans, measurable deliverables, and the right mechanisms to identify and correct execution gaps early.


Cross-Team Coordination: Act as the connective tissue across Compute engineering, product, operations, capacity, security, finance, and other OCI partner teams. Build alignment across upstream and downstream dependencies and drive ambiguous or stalled issues to resolution.


Technical Program Management: Develop strong technical depth in OCI Compute systems, cloud infrastructure, distributed services, automation, and operational workflows to understand tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and represent execution realities accurately.


Roadmap & Strategy: Partner with engineering and product leadership to shape program roadmaps, sequencing, and prioritization for Compute initiatives. Translate strategic goals into executable plans across teams.


Operational Excellence: Drive programs that improve service reliability, availability, scalability, efficiency, and operational maturity. Ensure launches include readiness reviews, support models, risk mitigation, incident learnings, and durable follow-through.


Executive Communication: Serve as a clear spokesperson for program status, risks, tradeoffs, and roadmap progress at the division level. Prepare crisp written updates, reviews, and decision documents for Director, Senior Director, and VP audiences.


Influence & Problem Solving: Independently identify division-wide execution risks, process gaps, and organizational inefficiencies. Bring the right stakeholders together, make tradeoffs explicit, and drive decisions without relying on formal authority.


Qualifications

Program Leadership Experience: 6-10+ years total experience with 5+ years of relevant technical program management, engineering program management, product operations, or equivalent experience, ideally in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or large-scale service environments.


Technical Depth: Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, cloud infrastructure, service operations, distributed systems, automation, and production readiness. Ability to engage credibly with senior engineers and engineering leaders.


Cross-Functional Execution: Proven ability to lead complex programs across multiple teams with competing priorities, unclear ownership, and significant dependencies.


Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to represent program status, risks, tradeoffs, and roadmap plans clearly to senior leadership.


Judgment & Independence: Demonstrated ability to operate independently, identify when escalation is needed, make conscious tradeoffs, and drive corrective action in complex technical environments.


Influence Without Authority: Strong relationship-building skills and a track record of aligning engineering, product, operations, and business stakeholders around shared outcomes.


Operational Mindset: Experience driving reliability, scale, efficiency, launch readiness, incident follow-up, or process improvements for production services.


Education: BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Program management certifications are helpful but not required.

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.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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 - IC4

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that 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 View email address on click.appcast.io or by calling View phone number on click.appcast.io 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.