Senior Director, Product Management
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.
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.
Key Responsibilities
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.
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Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
–Provides strategic oversight in managing and executing large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets to ensure success.
–Sets strategies for delegation, priority setting, and aligning projects with business needs.
–Drives the strategic planning process across teams, providing guidance on resource allocation and anticipating changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
–Sets strategic direction for collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of expectations and objectives.
–Drives a culture of teamwork, empowering teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and customers for organizational success.
–Promotes transparency and inclusivity so that all voices are valued and respected.
Problem Solving:
–Develops and implements organizational strategies for advanced problem-solving, serving as an escalation point for highly complex operational or technical issues.
–Oversees teams leveraging innovative techniques to tackle ambiguous issues and identifies root causes to prevent recurrence, reviewing solutions as needed.
Continuous Learning:
–Champions continuous learning to maintain cutting-edge skills and organizational best practices.
–Inspires teams to maintain expertise by monitoring trends, technologies, and standards, positioning Oracle as an industry leader.
–Contributes to strategy for learning and development, influencing leadership to foster opportunities for growth.
Continuous Improvement:
–Drives a culture of improvement, establishing efficient and effective processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.
–Oversees efforts to implement large-scale improvements, ensuring alignment with goals.
–Sets direction, prioritizes, and approves the roadmap of initiatives to maximize return on investment.
Performance and Development:
–Drives and ensures consistency in performance management strategies, systems, and processes organization-wide.
–Creates a career development culture, encouraging proactive pursuit of growth and guiding leaders to support team development.
–Ensures consistency in talent procedures and communicates performance expectations.
–Partners with HR and executives to envision and execute talent strategy, balancing budget and resources.
Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
12 years of experience in product/service/project/program management, product design, or related field
OR
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8 years of experience in product/service/project/program management, product design, or related field
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Master's Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field AND 6 years of experience in product/service/project/program management, product design, or related field.
Job Skills:
Same skills as prior level.
Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
13 years of experience in product/service/project/program management, product design, or related field
OR
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field AND 9 years of experience in product/service/project/program management, product design, or related field
OR
Master's Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7 years of experience in product/service/project/program management, product design, or related field.
Job Skills:
Same skills as prior level.
People Leadership / Management Experience:
7 years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
Product Domain Experience:
6 years of experience in the relevant product domain (e.g., procurement, accounting, healthcare).
Agile Methods Experience:
2 years of experience in applying agile methodologies and practices (e.g., Scrum framework) to manage projects.
Customer Interaction Experience:
5 years of experience in customer interaction.