Principal Product Manager - Compute

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 93,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a seasoned product leader to own the strategy, requirements, and roadmap for a compute product area in the United States. You will work directly with customers to identify workload needs and adoption barriers, and with silicon partners to evaluate processor and platform choices.

You will write decision papers, defend recommendations in leadership reviews, and lead product development through launch, including pricing, readiness, and go-to-market planning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience with product management ownership.
• Experience developing CPUs/GPUs/AI accelerators or related compute platforms.
• Ability to evaluate engineering proposals and defend technical recommendations with engineers.
• Experience defining requirements, prioritizing initiatives, and launching products.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, requirements, priorities, and roadmap for a compute product area.
• Collaborate with customers to identify workload needs and adoption barriers.
• Evaluate processor and platform choices with partners and engineering.
• Write decision papers detailing context, alternatives, economics, risks, and decisions.
• Present recommendations in leadership reviews and adjust as needed.
• Lead product decisions through development and launch, including pricing and readiness.
• Track adoption and business performance to guide future investments.

Skills

Product management

Customer engagement

Roadmapping

Pricing strategy

Go-to-market

Data-driven decision making

Leadership

Education

Electrical engineering / computer engineering / computer science degree

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, requirements, priorities, and roadmap for a compute product area.
• Work directly with customers to identify workload needs and adoption barriers. Decide which opportunities warrant investment and which do not.
• Work with silicon partners and OCI engineering to evaluate processor and platform choices across performance, memory, interconnect, power, software readiness, cost, and delivery timing.
• Write decision papers for leadership that establish the context, assess alternatives, and recommend product investments, roadmap choices, and pricing. Make assumptions, economics, risks, and requested decisions explicit.
• Present and defend recommendations in leadership reviews. Resolve open questions and revise proposals when the evidence changes.
• Lead product decisions through development and launch, including scope tradeoffs, positioning, pricing, and readiness for customer use.
• Track adoption, workload competitiveness, and business performance. Use the results to change priorities and guide subsequent investments.

What you’ll do

• Own the strategy, requirements, priorities, and roadmap for a compute product area.
• Work directly with customers to identify workload needs and adoption barriers. Decide which opportunities warrant investment and which do not.
• Work with silicon partners and OCI engineering to evaluate processor and platform choices across performance, memory, interconnect, power, software readiness, cost, and delivery timing.
• Write decision papers for leadership that establish the context, assess alternatives, and recommend product investments, roadmap choices, and pricing. Make assumptions, economics, risks, and requested decisions explicit.
• Present and defend recommendations in leadership reviews. Resolve open questions and revise proposals when the evidence changes.
• Lead product decisions through development and launch, including scope tradeoffs, positioning, pricing, and readiness for customer use.
• Track adoption, workload competitiveness, and business performance. Use the results to change priorities and guide subsequent investments.

Required Experience And Expertise

• Typically 8+ years of relevant industry experience, including 3+ years of product management experience with ownership of requirements, roadmap priorities, business tradeoffs, and product outcomes.
• Direct experience developing, evaluating, deploying, or bringing to market CPUs, GPUs, or AI accelerators, with technical depth in at least one category.
• Enough understanding of processor and system architecture to evaluate engineering proposals, challenge benchmark claims, and defend technical recommendations with experienced engineers.
• Prior product management responsibility for a processor, compute platform, or related infrastructure product. Your experience includes defining requirements, setting priorities, making business tradeoffs, and following a product through launch and adoption.
• Evidence of consequential product decisions you made: the alternatives considered, the supporting technical and customer evidence, and the results.
• Experience authoring decision papers or comparable proposals and defending recommendations with technical and business leaders.
• Ability to connect workload performance and system costs to pricing, customer value, and an investment case.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with cloud compute products or data center platforms.
• Experience working with processor vendors, system suppliers, or infrastructure customers on product requirements and roadmaps.

Education

A degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science is preferred. Equivalent technical expertise demonstrated through relevant industry experience will also be considered.

Years of experience are a guide. The scope of your ownership, quality of your judgment, and demonstrated results determine fit.

Key Responsibilities

Product Analysis – Market Analysis

• –Prioritizes products/features based on evaluations of business value, feasibility, and user needs (internal and/or external).
• –Ensures alignment between the customer, the market, and Oracle's goals and strategy.
• –Analyzes market trends and the competitive landscape to maintain a competitive position.
• –Engages customers, non-customers, partners, and industry analysts to gather market information and identify opportunities for products.

Product Analysis – Solution Identification

• –Leads efforts to identify customers' unmet or unknown needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements.
• –Guides internal teams to define problem statements for complex products and develops hypotheses for new products.
• –Independently owns and drives the solutioning process by collaborating with stakeholders.
• –Drives evaluation and validation of solutions to inform decisions on enhancing products/features.
• –Creates, maintains, and reviews solution artifacts (e.g., regulatory, functional, and non-functional requirements).

Product Ownership – Product Development and Roadmapping

• –Takes ownership of planning, execution, and release processes.
• –Owns roadmaps for multiple products/features, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• –Develops feature requirements, resources, and best practices for stakeholders.
• –Drives delivery excellence and resolves risks and issues.
• –Tracks and analyzes metrics (e.g., service requests, bugs, feedback) to make data-driven product decisions.
• –Writes and reviews user stories and acceptance criteria.
• –Determines feature and experience priorities to support OKRs (Objectives and Key Results).

Product Ownership – Product Leadership and Influence

• –Acts as an innovation leader, shaping product strategy and direction.
• –Guides product development to improve customer experience and achieve business goals.
• –Drives new feature development using agile and continuous-delivery methodologies.

Alignment and Collaboration

• –Shares insights with partners and ensures cross-team alignment.
• –Anticipates and manages stakeholder pushback using expertise and data.
• –Partners with engineering and senior teams to identify solutions linked to OKRs and KPIs.
• –Oversees business impact across organizations, managing success criteria and performance metrics.
• –Establishes parameters for user testing and product iteration.

Customer-Centricity

• –Serves as the primary customer advocate throughout the product lifecycle.
• –Actively engages with customers to gather feedback and insights.
• –Works with customers to align Oracle products to business goals.
• –Captures and analyzes customer requirements for new product capabilities and feature designs.
• –Ensures products are tailored to consumer needs during implementations.
• –Reviews and prioritizes customer issues for satisfaction and quality, coordinating resolutions.

Product Release – Go-to-Market

• –Develops release overviews, presentations, and demos for field teams.
• –Recruits and supports early adopters to validate solutions.
• –Contributes to the development of user documentation.
• –Defines and tracks product adoption metrics, identifying user behavior trends.
• –Presents demos to customers, partners, analysts, and field teams to promote value.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution

• –Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables for projects.
• –Delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans as needed.

Collaboration & Partnership

• –Collaborates across the organization to align expectations and achieve objectives.
• –Leverages understanding of leaders, stakeholders, and customers to ensure solutions meet needs.
• –Supports inclusivity by seeking and respecting diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving

• –Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a range of data/information.
• –Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with assessments and suggested solutions.
• –Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem-solving strategies.

Continuous Learning

• –Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge, skills, and tools.
• –Stays updated with industry trends and best practices.
• –Seeks and uses ongoing feedback and training; coaches and mentors junior team members.

Continuous Improvement

• –Develops and recommends process improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• –Evaluates the impact on key stakeholders and solicits feedback for continued improvement.

Performance and Development

• –Contributes to the talent pipeline by participating in interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.

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: $92,900 - $209,500 per year. May be eligible for bonus and 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