Principal Product Manager - Compute

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation seeks a senior product leader to own strategy, requirements, and roadmap for a compute product area. You will engage with customers to identify workload needs, evaluate processor and platform choices with OCI engineering, and write decision papers for leadership on investments and pricing.

Expect leadership reviews, cross-team collaboration, and data-driven prioritization. You will guide product development through launch, monitor adoption and business metrics, and adjust

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management with ownership of roadmap and outcomes.
• Experience with CPUs/GPUs/AI accelerators or related compute tech.
• Ability to evaluate engineering proposals and defend recommendations.
• Experience taking a processor or compute platform through launch and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, requirements, priorities, and roadmap for a compute product area.
• Write decision papers for leadership to establish context and pricing.
• Lead product decisions through development, launch, and pricing readiness.
• Track adoption and performance, adjusting priorities based on results.
• Collaborate with customers, silicon partners, and OCI engineering on architecture.

Skills

Product management

Roadmapping

Stakeholder alignment

Customer engagement

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Education

Electrical engineering

Computer engineering

Computer science

Job description

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.

Internal Responsibilities

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.
• Present 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.

External Responsibilities

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.
• Present 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.