Principal Program Manager – Events

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 91,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Program Manager-Events (IC4) in Nashville to independently lead complex, cross-functional event workstreams. You will manage content delivery, vendor relationships, and global planning while ensuring programs align with business priorities and audience needs.

This onsite role requires travel, strong stakeholder influence, and a track record of scalable event processes, with a focus on delivering high-impact experiences across campaigns and regional programs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in event operations, experiential marketing, marketing operations, or program management.
• Ownership of complex programs spanning multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• Experience overseeing event content workflows, including agenda planning and speaker coordination.
• Strong project and program management skills with dependency management and risk mitigation.
• Experience managing vendors, venues, contracts, and procurement processes.
• Experience managing event budgets, purchase orders, and invoicing.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and communicate recommendations clearly.
• Demonstrated success improving event processes using data and lessons learned.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated event planning across operations and content, owning schedules and milestones.
• Oversee content planning and delivery, including agenda development and speaker readiness.
• Coordinate with content owners to ensure quality messaging and materials.
• Maintain standardized templates, checklists, and procedures across events.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and address planning gaps with clear recommendations.
• Manage onsite logistics, registration, attendee communications, and guest experiences.
• Oversee vendor performance, scopes, budgets, and procurement timelines.
• Lead compliance coordination for customer gifts, hospitality, and partnerships.
• Provide tracking and reporting on attendees, executives, and content deliverables.

Skills

Event operations

Marketing operations

Program management

Vendor management

Budget management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

Event platforms

Job description

Job Description

Location: Nashville-TN — onsite 5 days/week. Relocation assistance is available; this is not a remote position.

Work Authorization: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) powers the world's most demanding workloads, helping organizations innovate with secure, high-performance cloud services. As OCI continues its rapid growth, we're investing in operational excellence, strategic initiatives, and scalable business processes that enable our teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences and accelerate innovation.

Role Summary

Build, manage, and evolve the content and operational infrastructure that allows OCI events (OCI Bootcamp, Customer Advisory Board events, Oracle AI World, and Oracle AI World Tours) to operate and scale efficiently.

This Principal Program Manager-Events (IC4) role is an individual contributor who will independently lead complex, cross-functional event workstreams, establishes scalable standards, and drives decisions across operations and content delivery. The role partners with marketing, product, technical, executive, and regional stakeholders to ensure event experiences and content align with business priorities, audience needs, and program objectives.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead integrated event planning across operations and content, owning workback schedules, milestones, dependencies, readiness criteria, and risk mitigation.
• Oversee event content planning and delivery, including agenda development, session alignment, speaker readiness, presentation milestones, reviews, and approvals.
• Partner with content owners and subject matter experts to ensure presentations, demos, and supporting materials meet messaging, quality, and audience requirements.
• Establish and maintain standardized event templates, checklists, RACI models, operating procedures, and planning tools across the event portfolio.
• Drive cross-functional alignment, resolve planning gaps, and elevate risks with clear recommendations and proposed tradeoffs.
• Own operational delivery across registration, attendee communications, mobile app requirements, credentialing, onsite logistics, transportation, merchandise, and customer hospitality.
• Manage agency and vendor performance, scope, deliverables, purchase orders, SOWs, budgets, invoices, and procurement timelines.
• Lead compliance coordination for customer experiences, gifts, strategic partner programs, and fulfillment.
• Establish tracking and reporting for attendees, executives, speakers, partners, and content deliverables, ensuring stakeholders have accurate visibility into readiness and outstanding decisions.
• Lead international planning workstreams, adapting operational and content processes to regional requirements and localization needs.
• Own detailed reporting on event performance metrics for senior leaders, translating registration, attendance, engagement, content effectiveness, attendee feedback, and budget results into actionable insights and recommendations for future programs.
• Lead post-event closeout and retrospectives, translating feedback and results into improvements for future programs.
• Own a central source of truth for the OCI events portfolio and drive adoption of consistent planning and reporting practices.
• Provide guidance to cross-functional contributors and share best practices to strengthen event execution across teams.

Ideal Background

An experienced event operations and content professional with a record of independently leading complex programs, overseeing event content workflows, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and building scalable processes across global or multi-region events.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in event operations, experiential marketing, marketing operations, or program management.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex programs spanning multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups, and competing priorities.
• Experience overseeing event content workflows, including agenda planning, speaker coordination, presentation development timelines, and review processes.
• Strong project and program management skills, with the ability to establish plans, manage dependencies, anticipate risks, and drive decisions with limited direction.
• Experience managing vendors, agencies, venues, and internal stakeholders against defined scopes, timelines, and quality expectations.
• Experience managing event budgets, purchase orders, contracts, invoicing, and procurement processes.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority and communicate recommendations, risks, and decisions clearly.
• Strong organizational skills, sound judgment, and exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience developing scalable operational documentation, governance processes, and event playbooks.
• Demonstrated success improving event processes through performance data, stakeholder feedback, and lessons learned.
• Ability to solve complex problems and adapt effectively in high-pressure environments.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale global or multi-region conferences in the technology industry
• Experience partnering with product marketing, technical teams, and executive stakeholders to develop audience-relevant event content.
• Experience with event registration and attendee management platforms.
• Familiarity with compliance requirements related to customer gifts, hospitality, and event programs.
• Experience with international shipping, fulfillment, and merchandise programs.
• Experience managing event mobile apps and attendee communications.

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: $91,000 - $209,500 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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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