Lead Principal Program Manager, Strategic Program Delivery

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 117,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Program Manager to organize strategic initiatives across business, operations, and community-facing workstreams within its AI data center portfolio. You will translate priorities into clear plans, ownership models, milestones, and outcomes, ensuring alignment with central planning, spend tracking, and leadership visibility.

The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, can untangle complex problems, and turn high-priority ideas into measurable results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Program Management, Engineering, Operations, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
• Proven experience leading technically complex programs from planning through execution.
• Strong technical program management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing dependencies, risks, implementation plans, and cross-functional technical workstreams.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication abilities, including experience communicating with technical and senior leadership audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead technically complex programs from initiation to delivery.
• Translate priorities into clear plans, milestones, and roadmaps.
• Identify and manage dependencies and risks across workstreams.
• Coordinate across technical, operations, security, and infrastructure stakeholders.
• Develop reporting and leadership updates on status and timelines.
• Improve delivery practices with reusable tools and playbooks.

Skills

Technical program leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

OCI is growing alongside Oracle’s expanding AI data center portfolio, creating the need for program leaders who can bring structure, visibility, and disciplined execution to fast-moving work. We’re looking for a Program Manager who can organize complex initiatives, align diverse stakeholders, and move high-priority programs from planning through delivery.

Job Description

OCI is growing alongside Oracle’s expanding AI data center portfolio, creating the need for program leaders who can bring structure, visibility, and disciplined execution to fast-moving work. We’re looking for a Program Manager who can organize complex initiatives, align diverse stakeholders, and move high-priority programs from planning through delivery. In this role, you’ll manage strategic program delivery across business, operations, and community-facing workstreams. You’ll translate organizational priorities into clear plans, ownership models, milestones, and outcomes while ensuring work flows into central planning, reporting, prioritization, spend tracking, and leadership visibility. You will partner across Oracle stakeholders to establish program structure, manage dependencies, track commitments and spend, and maintain visibility into progress, risks, decisions, and follow-through. Your work will help the organization scale high-impact programs that support Oracle’s broader AI data center expansion. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, untangles complex problems, and turns high-priority ideas into measurable results.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Program Leadership & Execution: Manage technically complex programs from initiation through implementation, establishing program structure, milestones, dependencies, ownership, and accountability across multiple technical and business teams.


• Implementation Planning: Translate technical and business priorities into clear implementation plans, milestones, deliverables, decision points, and execution roadmaps.


• Dependency & Risk Management: Identify, track, and manage dependencies, blockers, risks, and escalation paths across interconnected workstreams.


• Technical Stakeholder Coordination: Partner across technical, operations, security, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to align priorities, resolve execution challenges, and maintain momentum.


• Program Visibility & Reporting: Develop clear reporting mechanisms and recurring updates that give leadership visibility into program status, risks, blockers, decisions, and delivery timelines.


• Process & Delivery Improvement: Develop tools, playbooks, and repeatable delivery practices that improve execution across technical and operational programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Program Management, Engineering, Operations, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.


• Proven experience leading technically complex programs from planning through execution.


• Strong technical program management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.


• Experience managing dependencies, risks, implementation plans, and cross-functional technical workstreams.


• Exceptional verbal and written communication abilities, including experience communicating with technical and senior leadership audiences.


• Ability to effectively collaborate with and influence technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple organizations.


• Experience supporting infrastructure, security, data center, cloud, physical security, or operational technology programs is a plus.

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: $116,600 - $264,100 per year. 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:

• 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.

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.

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