Senior Director, Platform Software Engineering

United StatesFull-timePosted Aug 5, 2026

Join us at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as we seek a Senior Director of Product Management to lead the product strategy, portfolio, and product-management organization for Robotics, Perception, and Embodied AI.

Key Responsibilities

You will define how advances in robotics and AI become differentiated products, platforms, and customer solutions. The portfolio may include embodied foundation models, multimodal perception, autonomy, simulation, robotics developer tools, edge and cloud services, and fleet-management capabilities.

This role combines long-term market vision, deep technical judgment, organizational leadership, customer engagement, and commercial accountability. You will lead multiple product teams, including senior product managers and other product leaders, and partner with executives across Applied Science, Engineering, Hardware, Safety, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations.

Success requires delivering results through the organization you lead, developing senior leaders, and establishing durable product-management processes that improve execution across organizational boundaries.

What You’ll Do

Define and communicate the long-term portfolio vision, market strategy, investment thesis, and unified roadmap across research, AI models, robotics software, hardware enablement, data, simulation, cloud services, and customer solutions.
Select priority industries, use cases, customer segments, partnerships, and routes to market, while leading the operating model that moves scientific advances from exploration through incubation, productization, launch, and scale.
Establish portfolio metrics, investment gates, quality standards, production-readiness criteria, and operating mechanisms that improve execution across the broader organization.
Make resource and investment trade-offs across foundational research, shared platforms, vertical solutions, and strategic customer programs, while owning business cases, pricing, packaging, adoption, revenue, margin, and resource efficiency.
Build deep executive relationships with strategic customers and influence their robotics and technology direction.
Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing organization of senior and principal product managers and product leaders, including ownership of organizational planning, talent reviews, hiring, performance management, succession planning, and leadership development.
Align leaders across Applied Science, Engineering, Safety, Hardware, Sales, and Operations when priorities or definitions of success differ.

Qualifications

BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
15+ years of product management experience.
8+ years of people-management or technical-leadership experience, including at least 2 years leading an organization that includes other managers or senior product leaders.
Experience leading multiple product teams responsible for a portfolio of complex, business-critical products or services and driving initiatives across product, technical, and organizational boundaries.
Strong technical understanding across robotics, perception, embodied AI, simulation, edge computing, and cloud infrastructure.
Experience commercializing research-intensive, probabilistic, or safety-relevant technologies.
Experience managing portfolio strategy, investment planning, product economics, budgets, and executive decision-making.
Proven ability to attract strong talent, develop senior leaders, manage performance, and establish scalable organizational processes.
Ability to define product direction across multiple areas and influence executive decisions beyond the immediate organization.
Strong strategic-customer, executive-communication, and external-representation skills.

This job involves travel on an as-needed basis.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

Provides strategic oversight on the management and execution of large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure success. Sets strategies for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and aligning projects with business needs. Drives the strategic planning process across teams, providing guidance on resources or timelines in anticipation of changes.

Collaboration & Partnership:

Sets a strategic direction for collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives. Drives a culture of teamwork, empowering teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to contribute to organizational success. Promotes a culture of transparency and inclusivity where all voices are valued and respected.

Problem Solving:

Develops and implements strategies for specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts across the organization, serving as an escalation point for highly complex operational and/or technical issues. Oversees teams leveraging innovative techniques to address significant ambiguous issues, identify root causes, and prevent recurrence, reviewing solutions as needed.

Continuous Learning:

Champions continuous learning to maintain cutting-edge skills and influence organizational best practices. Inspires teams to build and maintain expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards to help position the organization as an industry leader. Contributes to the organization’s strategy for learning and development, influencing leadership to foster learning opportunities for the team.

Continuous Improvement:

Drives a culture of continuous improvement that sets a standard for efficient and effective processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Oversees work to implement large-scale approaches and methods for continued improvement, ensuring changes align with organizational goals. Sets the strategic direction, prioritizes, and approves the roadmap of improvement initiatives to maximize return on investments.

Performance and Development:

Drives and ensures consistent application of performance management strategies, systems, processes, and guidelines across the organization. Creates an organizational culture of career development that encourages proactively identifying and pursuing career development opportunities and guiding leaders to support their team's growth. Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization. Partners with HR and executive leadership to envision and execute a talent management strategy, balancing budget and talent resources.

Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
12years of experience in software development

Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 8 years of experience in software development

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 8 years of experience in software development

Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 6 years of experience in software development

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 6 years of experience in software development

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development.

Job Skills:
Same skills as prior level.
Coding Experience:
10 years of experience with programming and/or scripting languages (e.g., SQL, C/C++, JavaScript).
Database Experience:
6 years of experience with databases.

Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
13 years of experience in software development

Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 9 years of experience in software development

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 9 years of experience in software development

Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development.

People Leadership / Management Experience:
7 years of experience in a technical lead role with direct reports.
Budget Experience:
4 years of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
Cloud Platforms Experience:
5 years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).