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Senior Director, Product Management
- Location
- San Francisco
- Posted
- 2D AGO
About the role
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is developing scientific platform capabilities that connect computational workflows, scientific data, artificial intelligence (AI), and laboratory automation. We are seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead product strategy and commercial development across these capabilities, beginning with strategic scientific customers and establishing a path to repeatable adoption across additional customers and markets.
You will lead the overall product portfolio, owning the integrated vision, strategy, roadmap, pricing, packaging, and go to market strategy. You will work directly with scientists, research leaders, engineering, and commercial teams to identify valuable customer problems, define differentiated products, and build a credible business and investment plan.
This role combines product leadership across the portfolio with direct product management responsibility for laboratory automation and robotics. Initially, you will personally lead discovery, product definition, prioritization, and pilot evaluation in that area while developing the product management team. You will establish clear ownership for scientific computing and other product areas, align their roadmaps, and evolve assignments as the portfolio grows.
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: $169,800 to $355,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.
Key Responsibilities
Define and lead the integrated product vision, strategy, and roadmap across scientific computing, data, AI, and laboratory automation. Establish product boundaries, resolve competing priorities, and recommend investments aligned with customer value and business opportunity.
Develop the market and commercial strategy. Identify target segments, buyers, procurement needs, competitive alternatives, and differentiation. Validate demand, willingness to pay, and opportunities beyond initial customer engagements.
Own pricing and packaging strategy and product business cases. Partner with Finance, Sales, and engineering leaders to assess customer value, delivery costs, revenue potential, margins, and investment needs. Recommend commercial models that support sustainable growth.
Lead go to market planning with Sales, Marketing, partner teams, and customer success. Define positioning, value propositions, launch readiness, sales enablement, adoption plans, and routes to market.
Build trusted relationships with scientific users, research leaders, technology executives, and business sponsors. Understand scientific workflows and operational constraints, and translate them into product priorities and measurable customer outcomes.
Personally own product management for laboratory automation and robotics from discovery through pilots, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement. Define requirements, priorities, acceptance criteria, and success measures with scientists, laboratory operators, engineers, and equipment partners.
Define laboratory automation requirements spanning instruments, robotics, materials, scientific applications, and human activities. Address equipment state, access, approvals, traceability, exception handling, and recovery while preserving local equipment control and safety authority.
Shape reusable integration and onboarding capabilities for scientific applications, laboratory instruments, vendor software, and laboratory information systems. Distinguish shared product capabilities from customer configuration and custom integration work, and improve deployment economics.
Partner with Engineering, Architecture, and scientific leadership on product scope and sequencing. Make informed tradeoffs across scientific value, usability, technical feasibility, reliability, security, safety, cost, and delivery time.
Lead, develop, and scale the product management team. Establish clear accountability across product areas, coach product managers, and strengthen technical and commercial judgment while maintaining direct engagement in consequential customer and product decisions.
Establish effective practices for customer discovery, roadmap decisions, investment reviews, launches, and performance measurement. Apply AI and automation to improve product work and reduce manual coordination.
Define pilot success measures and assess scientific, operational, and commercial outcomes to recommend staged investment. Track adoption, customer value, onboarding effort, revenue, and product economics, and use the evidence to refine strategy.
Represent the portfolio with senior Oracle leaders, customers, and partners. Communicate recommendations and risks clearly, align stakeholders across organizational boundaries, and secure decisions on material investments and commitments.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
12+ years of experience in product management, product strategy, or product leadership for complex technology products, including senior leadership responsibilities.
Experience owning the development and delivery of robotics or laboratory automation products within a product or engineering organization, from product definition through engineering delivery and customer deployment.
Experience leading and developing product managers or cross functional product teams and setting product strategy, roadmaps, and priorities.
Demonstrated success translating customer needs into launched products and measurable adoption, with commercial judgment in areas such as pricing, packaging, business cases, and go to market strategy.
Ability to work directly with customers, make informed technical and commercial tradeoffs with engineering teams, and communicate product decisions clearly. Strong analytical judgment, executive communication, and influence across organizations.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) preferred.
Experience with scientific computing, genomics, bioinformatics, pathogens research, research data platforms, or life sciences software.
Experience with laboratory instruments, liquid handlers, robotic systems, laboratory informatics, or automation vendors.
Experience evaluating early customer pilots and using their results to recommend staged investment, repeatable deployment, and broader commercial adoption, including work with software or equipment partners.
Familiarity with AI enabled scientific workflows, agentic systems, scientific evaluation, reproducibility, and governed automation.
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