Lead Principal Product Manager

Job-ID: 349228Category: Product and ResearchLocation: San Francisco, CA, United States; Seattle, WA, United StatesSchedule: Full timePosted: 2026-10-29Closes: 2027-04-27Role: Individual ContributorJob Type: Regular EmployeeDoes this position require a security clearance?: NoYears: 10+ yearsApplicants: Less than 10 applicantsApplicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages: EnglishOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is developing scientific platform capabilities for genomics, pathogens research, and other computationally intensive scientific workflows. These capabilities help scientists execute workflows and connect scientific data, applications, and results. We are seeking a Senior Principal Product Manager to define product direction and deliver capabilities that address strategic customer needs while establishing a foundation for broader adoption.This senior individual contributor role owns product strategy, customer discovery, roadmap, and product outcomes for scientific computing and genomics capabilities. You will work directly with scientists, research computing teams, engineering, and applied science to translate complex scientific workflows into reliable, usable cloud capabilities. You will operate independently across teams and guide product decisions from initial requirements through launch, adoption, and commercial validation.QualificationsDisclaimer: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 onlyUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $119,200 to $264,100 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:1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion2. Short term disability and long term disability3. Life insurance and AD&D4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match8. 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 holidays10. 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 leave12. Adoption assistance13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan14. Financial planning and group legal15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insuranceThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.ResponsibilitiesResponsibilitiesDefine the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and investment recommendations for scientific computing and genomics within the broader product direction. Prioritize customer outcomes while identifying capabilities that can be reused across scientific programs and customers.Build trusted relationships with scientists, bioinformaticians, research computing teams, and customer decision makers. Understand their scientific objectives, computational pipelines, data flows, existing tools, and operational constraints.Translate customer discovery into clear requirements, user journeys, prioritized capabilities, release objectives, and acceptance criteria. Own product decisions throughout discovery, development, pilot deployment, launch, and continuous improvement.Define the product experience for onboarding, configuring, executing, monitoring, and troubleshooting scientific computational workflows. Address identity, access, execution status, results, reproducibility, provenance, and cost visibility.Partner with engineering and architecture on integration with established workflow engines, scientific applications, data systems, and cloud infrastructure. Make explicit tradeoffs across usability, performance, reliability, security, interoperability, cost, and delivery time.Coordinate with the product owner for laboratory automation and robotics on workflows that span computational and physical experimentation. Define shared customer requirements for execution context, evidence, and continuity without duplicating capabilities owned by other systems.Work with applied science and engineering to identify valuable artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, scientific evaluation needs, and agent interactions. Define measures of correctness, reproducibility, user benefit, and appropriate human oversight.Develop market and competitive insight, positioning, business cases, and adoption hypotheses. Partner with commercial teams on packaging, pricing recommendations, customer enablement, and the economics of expanding beyond initial engagements.Establish and use measures for adoption, time to first successful workflow, onboarding effort, execution reliability, reproducibility, computational cost, and scientific workflow efficiency. Revise roadmap and investment recommendations using evidence.Represent product direction to executives, customers, and partners. Resolve complex product issues across teams, mentor product colleagues, and establish effective discovery and decision practices through influence and technical credibility.Minimum QualificationsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Natural Sciences, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.10+ years of relevant experience in product management, including substantial ownership of highly technical enterprise software, cloud, data, or platform products.Demonstrated ability to independently lead product strategy and delivery across multiple teams, from ambiguous customer needs through launch and measurable adoption.Experience working directly with technically sophisticated users and customers on scientific computing, data intensive workflows, AI platforms, or comparable complex technical environments.Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, application programming interfaces, data platforms, identity, and enterprise integration. Ability to evaluate scientific workflow and operational tradeoffs with engineers and architects.Experience defining business cases, prioritizing investment, and using qualitative research and quantitative evidence to make product decisions. Excellent writing, executive communication, and influence across organizations.Preferred QualificationsExperience in genomics, bioinformatics, computational biology, pathogens research, scientific computing, or life sciences software, including direct engagement with researchers.Familiarity with established scientific workflow engines, containerized execution, scientific interfaces, and reproducible computational environments.Experience integrating research data, scientific applications, laboratory informatics, simulation tools, or computational workflows with cloud services.Experience with AI enabled scientific applications, model evaluation, agents, and production cloud products, including commercialization and customer adoption.About the companyOnly Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. 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