Product Manager Reliability - Product Development

The Mission Critical Oracle Database Product Management team seeks a high-energy, experienced professional interested in working with like-minded people on high availability (HA), scalability, disaster recovery, continuous availability, and related topics. We look forward to working with you if you can augment the team’s strong database expertise with your experience.

Do you have an eye for observability? Have you mastered chaos engineering? Did you free incident management from toil, automate it, or otherwise make the system you were responsible for more reliable?

Then we would like to hear from you The team is comprised of a group of top-quality, high-energy, and highly experienced professionals who handle the product management responsibilities for all the availability, data protection, and scalability aspects involving the Oracle Database and the Oracle Database Cloud Services, as well as the continuous availability of applications using those. Database products and functionalities that the team is directly responsible for include Data Guard, Active Data Guard, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), and Oracle Clusterware, as well as the HA interactions with Oracle Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware. The team also manages all HA aspects related to deploying Oracle Databases in the Public Cloud.

More details can be found at http://www.oracle.com/goto/availability . Typical product management activities include working closely with customers and engineering to define product strategy and functionality, managing ongoing strategic relationships with top-tier customers and being the customer advocate within the development organization, developing marketing plans and collateral, providing field support, performing competitive analyses, evangelizing and speaking at key conferences, etc. Being a part of this team will allow you to significantly contribute to the success of the Oracle Database (on-premises and in the cloud), guide how it is consumed by applications and customers, and provide you with a high degree of internal and external visibility. Career Level - IC4 In this role, you will be working with an elite group of software developers and product managers to assist with current initiatives around developing and marketing Oracle’s next-generation high availability capabilities for the Oracle Database, Oracle Exadata, and the Oracle Database Cloud Service.

In particular, you will be responsible for all product management aspects around enabling continuous availability for applications using Oracle Database, Oracle RAC, Oracle Oracle's Globally Distributed Database, and related technologies. You may also be expected to take complete product management ownership on selected areas and products to be released in the future. This role involves both inbound and outbound product management responsibilities.

Specific duties of this position include the following: Gather and validate input related to high availability, data protection as well as customer usage patterns from Oracle customers, Oracle Customer Support, Sales and Sales Consulting, and write documents helping guide development Drive the development and launch of Oracle systems and cloud services that integrate high-performance software in an optimized hardware and cloud configuration to solve challenging problems related to continuous availability for applications while making sure that the product functionality being built is consistent with customer expectations and helps to establish significant market leadership for Oracle compared to competing products Develop collateral such as technical and business white papers, success stories, data sheets, brochures, best practices, and product presentations for Oracle’s HA technology and publish those on internal and external websites Maintain deep relationships with key customers; as the development advocate/sponsor for these customers, ensure their continued success with Oracle’s products and, in turn, cultivate the relationships to develop adequate references Evangelize Oracle’s availability and data protection features and help promote them by presenting at trade shows, customer sites, industry conferences, industry analyst meetings, and at the Oracle Customer Visit Center Job Requirements BS / MS in Computer Science or related technical degree required; MBA desirable Excellent written, communication/presentation, analytical, time management, and teamwork skills Six or more years of engineering/product management experience, preferably in enterprise computing, with solid familiarity with cloud, applications using highly available databases, reliability, and business continuity A balanced mix of applications and database administration skills, along with relevant cloud experience Experience in dealing with a broad spectrum of IT audiences – ranging from CTO/CIO to database, systems, network, and storage administrators – as well as awareness of trends and opportunities in enterprise computing that potentially influence Oracle’s business Strong interpersonal skills – the ability to effectively deal with various internal groups as well as external customers in high-intensity situations – as well as a can-do attitude with a focus on deliverables and deadlines This position is based out of the Oracle offices in Redwood Shores, California, USA. Alternative US locations can be considered. This job involves US-domestic and international travel on an as-needed basis.