Lead Principal Technical Program Manager Process Improvement and Transformation

About the role

Join the Oracle Transformation & Delivery team as a Senior Principal Program Manager at our Nashville HQ. As Oracle continues its rapid growth, you will lead highly visible programs that span multiple organizations and require strong coordination across product, engineering, operations, and corporate functions. You will leverage Oracle's internal AI capabilities and emerging technologies to help teams execute transformational initiatives from concept through delivery. This individual contributor role is part of a growing function with the opportunity to help establish best practices, governance frameworks, and execution models that enable successful outcomes across the business.

Responsibilities

• Program Leadership & Execution: Lead complex, enterprise-wide programs from initiation through implementation. Establish program structure, define milestones, manage dependencies, and drive accountability across multiple teams to ensure successful delivery of strategic objectives.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Partner with stakeholders across Oracle to align priorities, resolve execution challenges, and maintain momentum across interconnected initiatives. Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities while keeping programs on track.
• Program Governance & Risk Management: Develop and maintain governance frameworks that provide visibility into program health, risks, dependencies, decisions, and key milestones. Proactively identify and mitigate execution risks, escalating issues appropriately to maintain delivery commitments.
• Strategic Initiative Delivery: Translate business objectives into executable program plans with clear deliverables, ownership models, success metrics, and implementation roadmaps. Ensure alignment between strategic priorities and operational execution.
• Executive Communication & Stakeholder Management: Provide concise, data-driven updates to leadership and executive stakeholders. Prepare executive presentations, status reports, decision briefs, and recommendations that enable informed decision-making and effective program oversight.
• Performance Tracking & Operational Excellence: Establish program metrics and reporting mechanisms to monitor progress, measure outcomes, and drive accountability. Utilize dashboards, scorecards, and regular reviews to ensure initiatives remain aligned to expected business value.
• Organizational Enablement: Drive adoption of program management best practices, delivery methodologies, and execution frameworks across teams. Foster collaboration, transparency, and disciplined execution within a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Lead or support other strategic initiatives, transformation efforts, and special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Business Administration, Economics, Project Management, Engineering, or equivalent degree.
• 10+ years of experience in program management, project management, portfolio management, or strategic operations.
• Experience leading large-scale, cross-functional programs in a complex enterprise environment.
• Proven success delivering mission-critical initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, organizations, and dependencies.
• Demonstrated expertise in program governance, risk management, executive communications, and operational execution.
• Strong ability to influence without direct authority and drive alignment across diverse teams.
• Experience managing ambiguity and delivering results in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

Pay

Hiring range in USD: $116,600 - $264,100 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• 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 for salaried employees; accrued vacation for others (13 days annually for the first three years, 18 days annually thereafter; prorated for part-time employees working 20-34 hours per week).
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshes annually, with a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal services.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.