Senior Product Manager, OKE

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 77,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & Vision

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Parental leave

Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks a Senior Product Manager for Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). You will own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for a defined OKE area, partnering with engineering, platform teams, and customers to drive adoption and reliable operations.

You will guide capabilities from discovery through launch, balancing Kubernetes evolution with enterprise needs for security, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience in cloud infrastructure or enterprise software.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, containers, and cloud production environments.
• Experience with platform engineering or DevOps products (IaC, CI/CD, GitOps).
• Proven ability to translate customer needs into product requirements and roadmaps.
• Strong customer research, analytical skills, and the ability to influence engineers and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery for a defined area within OKE.
• Collaborate with engineering, UX, solutions architects, and field teams from discovery to launch.
• Define experiences to simplify cluster onboarding, configuration, and operations.
• Improve developer and platform experiences with Terraform, OCI DevOps, and APIs.
• Translate requirements into priorities for availability, security, performance, and cost.
• Coordinate dependencies across OCI services and validate the end-to-end customer experience.

Skills

Product management

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Developer platforms

Enterprise software

Customer research

Analytical skills

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Resource Manager

OCI DevOps

Registries

APIs

Job description

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Product Manager to define and deliver capabilities for Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). You will work with developers, platform engineers, and enterprise customers to understand their needs and translate them into product experiences that simplify Kubernetes adoption and production operations.

As an individual contributor, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for a defined area within OKE. Working closely with engineering, user experience, solutions architects, and field teams, you will guide capabilities from customer discovery through launch and adoption. You will balance the evolution of Kubernetes and its ecosystem with enterprise requirements for reliability, security, scalability, usability, and cost efficiency.

The ideal candidate brings:

• 5+ years of relevant experience, including product management for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, developer platforms, or enterprise software.
• Strong technical understanding of Kubernetes architecture, containers, cluster lifecycle management, and production cloud environments.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, compute, storage, IAM, registries, observability, and their role in running containerized applications.
• Experience developing products for platform engineering or DevOps teams, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, or GitOps workflows.
• Demonstrated success defining product requirements, prioritizing roadmaps, and delivering capabilities from discovery through launch and adoption.
• Strong customer research and analytical skills, with the ability to connect customer problems, product usage, and business outcomes.
• Clear written and verbal communication, sound technical judgment, and the ability to influence engineering and business stakeholders across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer and market insight: Engage developers, platform engineers, application owners, and enterprise customers to understand Kubernetes adoption and operational challenges. Evaluate ecosystem trends, competing platforms, and migration requirements to identify opportunities for OKE.
• Product strategy and roadmap: Own the roadmap for your product area, establishing clear customer problems, priorities, and success criteria. Make informed tradeoffs across customer value, technical complexity, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Cluster lifecycle and operations: Define experiences that simplify cluster onboarding, configuration, node management, upgrades, scaling, and ongoing operations. Help customers maintain reliable environments as their workloads and Kubernetes requirements evolve.
• Developer and platform experience: Improve how customers deploy workloads and integrate OKE into their existing toolchains. Partner with teams responsible for Terraform, Resource Manager, OCI DevOps, registries, and APIs to deliver consistent, repeatable workflows.
• Production quality and efficiency: Translate customer requirements for availability, performance, security, observability, and cost into product priorities. Partner with engineering to address operational friction, compatibility concerns, and recurring support issues.
• Cross-functional execution: Develop requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria with engineering and design. Coordinate dependencies across compute, networking, storage, identity, and other OCI services, validating the complete customer experience before release.
• Launch and adoption: Recruit design partners and early adopters, validate new capabilities, and coordinate release readiness. Work with product marketing, solutions architects, documentation, and field teams on positioning, demonstrations, enablement, and customer adoption.
• Measurement and continuous improvement: Establish metrics such as onboarding completion, time to deploy workloads, successful upgrades, production adoption, and reduced operational effort. Use telemetry, customer feedback, and support trends to evaluate outcomes and refine the roadmap.

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: $77,200 - $187,000 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.

Benefits

• 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. 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.

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