Mission-Critical Database Availability Product Manager

Job Description

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? Have you managed cloud projects involving more than one cloud platform? Have you ever moved applications and databases into or across cloud platforms? 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 Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management and Oracle Clusterware as well as the HA interactions with Oracle Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware, including Application Continuity. The team also manages all HA aspects related to deploying Oracle Databases in any Cloud. More details can be found at .

Job requirements

BS / MS in Computer Science or related technical degree; MBA desirable

Excellent written, communication / presentation, analytical, time management, and teamwork skills

Balanced mix of applications and database administration skills, along with relevant cloud experience

Experience in dealing with a broad spectrum of IT audience - ranging from CTO/CIO to database, systems, network, and storage administrators

Strong inter-personal skills - ability to effectively deal with various internal groups as well as external customers in high intensity situations

This position is based in Oracle's Redwood Shores, California office, with flexibility for other U.S. locations. The role includes occasional domestic and international travel as needed. Visa and work authorization transfers are supported.

Responsibilities

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 as well as the Oracle Database Cloud Service. In particular, you will be responsible for all product management aspects around enabling continuous availability using Oracle Database, Oracle RAC, and related technologies on the cloud and on-premises. You may also be expected to take complete product management ownership on selected areas as well as products to be released in the future. This role involves both inbound and outbound product management.

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 make significant contribution towards 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.

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 briefs, success stories, data sheets, brochures, best practices and product presentations for Oracle's HA technology and publish those on internal and external web sites

• 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 effective 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

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $82,500 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

Short term disability and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

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.

11 paid holidays

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.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

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.

Career Level - IC4

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