Principal Product Manager at Oracle in Nashville, TN

Job description

== This is on-site Nashville position, not remote == Owns the inbound product strategy, roadmap, and execution for OCI DevOps tooling, translating customer, developer, and operator needs into high-impact product capabilities. Evaluates opportunities using customer value, technical feasibility, market dynamics, and alignment with OCI strategy. Engages directly with enterprise customers, prospects, partners, field teams, and industry analysts to understand DevOps workflows, pain points, and emerging needs across areas such as CI/CD, infrastructure automation, developer experience, release management, observability, security, and platform engineering. Synthesizes qualitative feedback and product data into clear problem statements, prioritized requirements, and measurable outcomes. Leads discovery, validation, and roadmap planning for multiple products and features. Partners closely with engineering, UX, architecture, security, documentation, support, and go-to-market teams to define product requirements, make informed tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality releases. Establishes success metrics—including adoption, engagement, reliability, time-to-value, and customer satisfaction—and uses them to guide iteration and investment decisions. Serves as the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring OCI DevOps tooling is intuitive, interoperable, secure, scalable, and aligned with how modern software teams build, deploy, and operate services. Drives customer escalations and usability improvements to resolution, while proactively identifying opportunities to simplify developer and operator workflows. Supports go-to-market readiness by developing product positioning, launch materials, demos, early-adopter programs, and field enablement. Builds strong relationships with design partners and customers, tracks adoption and feedback after launch, and continuously improves the product experience and roadmap based on real-world usage. Product Strategy, Market Insight, and Discovery Own inbound product strategy for OCI DevOps tooling, grounding priorities in customer impact, business value, technical feasibility, product data, and OCI strategy. Develop a deep understanding of modern software-delivery and platform-engineering practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release orchestration, developer experience, cloud-native operations, security, and observability. Engage enterprise customers, design partners, prospects, field teams, partners, and analysts to identify unmet needs, workflow friction, emerging trends, and competitive opportunities. Analyze market, ecosystem, and competitive signals to inform product positioning, investment decisions, and differentiated capabilities. Translate customer and market insights into clear problem statements, opportunity assessments, hypotheses, and product requirements. Identify relevant security, compliance, reliability, and operational requirements for enterprise DevOps workflows. Product Definition, Roadmap, and Execution Own the roadmap and backlog for assigned OCI DevOps products and features, ensuring clear alignment to customer needs, business priorities, and measurable outcomes. Define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements such as scalability, availability, performance, security, and interoperability. Partner with engineering, design, architecture, security, documentation, support, and program management to drive discovery, solution design, delivery, launch, and iteration. Make informed prioritization and tradeoff decisions across new features, technical debt, customer escalations, usability improvements, and operational quality. Establish product success criteria and track metrics such as adoption, activation, engagement, retention, time-to-value, deployment velocity, reliability, support trends, and customer satisfaction. Use qualitative feedback and quantitative data—including usage telemetry,