Lead Principal Product Manager
Key Responsibilities
Product Analysis - Market Analysis:
-Champions the prioritization of products/features based on evaluations of business value, feasibility, and internal and/or external user needs.
-Works with highly valued customers to ensure seamless alignment between the customer, the market, internal stakeholders, and Oracle's goals and strategy.
-Champions the analysis of market trends and the competitive landscape to set strategic and competitive positioning.
-Leads the engagements of key strategic customers, non-customers, partners, and industry analysts to obtain market information and discover opportunities for the product portfolio/product area.
Product Analysis - Solution Identification:
-Establishes strategies for identifying customers' unmet or unknown needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements.
-Influences internal teams in developing problem statements for highly complex products and forming data-driven hypotheses for breakthrough new products.
-Owns and champions the solutioning process by strategically partnering with internal and external stakeholders to identify solutions.
-Spearheads the evaluation and validation of different solutions to make informed decisions on enhancing existing products/features or introducing new products/features.
-Leads the creation and maintenance of critical and complex solution artifacts (e.g., regulatory requirements, functional and non-functional requirements).
Product Ownership - Product Development and Roadmapping:
-Drives the Line of Business’s (LOB) product lifecycle approach, setting industry standards for excellence.
-Provides strategic guidance to team members on maintaining the roadmap for multiple products/features, aligning them with Oracle’s vision and market demands.
-Establishes feature requirements, resources, and best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and empowering internal stakeholders.
-Takes a leadership role in driving delivery excellence with key stakeholders, managing risks and resolving complex issues to ensure project success.
-Interprets existing metrics (e.g., Service Requests, bugs raised, customer feedback, customer volumes) and market insights, driving strategic decision-making and optimizing product development in dynamic environments.
-Sets expectations for product quality by leading the creation and review of user stories and acceptance criteria.
-Reviews and shapes features or experiences prioritized in the roadmap, strategically aligning them with success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
Product Ownership - Product Leadership and Influence:
-Acts as an innovation leader within the Line of Business (LOB) and sets the overall strategy and direction of products, driving initiatives and long-term vision.
-Directs the development of products to deliver exceptional customer experiences and achieve business goals.
-Champions the adoption of new methodologies for new feature development, leveraging agile and continuous-delivery practices.
Alignment and Collaboration:
-Drives the sharing of strategic insights with cross-functional partners and Lines of Business (LOB), ensuring alignment and fostering a culture of collaboration.
-Anticipates and addresses potential pushback from stakeholders, leveraging extensive subject matter expertise and data-driven arguments to drive consensus and decision-making.
-Guides collaboration efforts with engineering and senior colleagues to execute innovative solutions tied to OKRs and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
-Takes full ownership of driving transformative business impact across Lines of Business (LOB), overseeing success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., OKRs, KPIs) for multiple products/features.
-Provides insight into parameters for user testing and champions the iteration and enhancement of products based on test results.
Customer-Centricity:
-Champions the customer's needs throughout the product lifecycle, proactively anticipating and addressing complex customer needs.
-Proactively seeks out customers to gather comprehensive feedback and conducts extensive research to understand their experiences with Oracle's products and services.
-Collaborates strategically with highly valued customers to align Oracle product capabilities with customers' evolving business goals.
-Leads efforts to capture, analyze, and synthesize intricate customer requirements, defining new product capabilities and driving the development of feature designs.
-Provides subject matter expertise and guidance to ensure products deliver exceptional value and exceed product consumer expectations following implementations.
-Reviews and prioritizes critical customer issues to ensure customer satisfaction and product quality, partnering with product development for advanced resolution.
Product Release - Go-to-Market:
-Leads the development of release overviews, field presentations, and demos for the field team, providing guidance to junior staff as needed.
-Strategically recruits and provides robust support to key early adopters to validate and enhance product solutions.
-Drives the development of thorough and detailed user documentation, providing expert-level oversight as needed.
-Defines and tracks key product metrics to monitor adoption for multiple product lines, leveraging data insights to drive product improvement.
-Presents product demonstrations to highly valued internal and/or external customers and partners, industry analysts, and field teams, showcasing the innovation and value of new releases.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements.
-Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives.
-Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success.
-Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
-Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues.
-Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drive the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.
Continuous Learning:
-Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization.
-Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions).
-Maintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices.
-Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams.
-Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.
Continuous Improvement:
-Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.
-Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals.
-Designs and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.
Performance and Development:
-Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy.
-Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy..
Career Level - IC5