Product Manager/Strategy 4-ProdDev Oracle
Redwood City, CA

Job Description

Lead a team that acts as the central resource and driving force for the design, process, manufacturing, test, quality and marketing of product(s) as they move from conception to distribution. Organize interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget.

As a member of the product development division, you will analyze and integrate external customer specifications. Suggest and justify product directions and specifications. Specify, design and implement moderate changes to existing software architecture. Build new products and development tools. Build and execute unit tests and unit test plans. Review integration and regression test plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering to discuss major changes to functionality.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Key to accelerating the success of Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud, quarterbacking experiences from various teams within Oracle Development on behalf of the customer. Act as a Development advocate for strategic customers, cultivating strong relationships, and effective marketing references by ensuring significant business benefit to our customers with Oracle SCP Cloud.

As SCP Customer Direct team member, we help key customers achieve their objectives and drive significant benefit into their organizations using our products. Our team is measured on attaining deep, high affinity references as well as developing and deploying highly leveraged, scalable best practices to ensure the success of our customers and their implementers. We become product and process experts, assisting a broad field organization of trained, competent implementation delivery consultants from leading Systems Integrators, working alongside Oracle's Field Customer Success Managers and Oracle Support.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience in the use and deployment of Oracle Supply Chain Planning applications. The candidate will have deep experience in the business environment and processes supported by Oracle's SCP products.

Roles and Responsibilities

Interact regularly, primarily remotely, with the customer, their chosen implementation partner, Oracle's Cloud Service Delivery Managers and key Oracle executives to provide oversight during the Oracle SCP Cloud implementation, ensuring all parties are aligned. This will include understanding the status of the implementation, discussion of any critical issues, and coming to agreement on appropriate action plans of resolution. You will act as a bridge between the customer team and Oracle Product Development as required. You will drive to closure any issues that put the go-live at risk, including defining ownership between the customer, the integration partner, and Oracle.

This is a high visibility position and you will typically be interacting with senior executives, both within the customer's IT, sales, marketing and service organizations and within Oracle. You will engage when the customer kicks-off their implementation and you will continue with the customer throughout their relationship with Oracle. Your objective is to ensure that the customer realizes the business benefits they hoped to achieve with their Oracle SCP Cloud.

Experience and Skills

Work is non-routine and complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. This is a leading contributor, individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others.

* Bachelor's Degree, MBA is a plus.
* At least 6~8 years of experience with Oracle SCP implementation.
* Experience leading the implementation of enterprise-class, mission-critical applications.
* Familiarity with the capabilities of modern analytics reporting tools is desirable.

You are someone who is:

* A team player with strong interpersonal skills
* Has excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Has strong organizational and process management skills and attention to detail
* Has the credibility and experience to engage with customer executives
* Enjoys the challenge of "the unexpected"
* Can rapidly sort out "fact from fiction" in any situation and motivate forward progress
* Can work well in a delivery team environment
* Able to quickly garner respect from you
* Demands a lot from yourself and others with whom you work
* Constantly broadening and deepening your knowledge of the products your work with and your general skills

As a part of the team you will seek out and interpret user feedback to guide product development to further enhance the product to increase user adoption.