Principal Program Manager, Execution Operations

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking an experienced Principal Program Manager, Execution Operations, to serve as a trusted executive business partner to the Executive Vice President and Head of OCI. This role will operate as a chief of staff–style function focused on executive effectiveness, organizational execution, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

The Principal Program Manager will work in close partnership with the Executive Assistant, the Head of Business Operations and Strategic Programs, and members of the OCI executive leadership team to ensure the EVP’s time, attention, and engagements are aligned with OCI’s highest priorities.

• Serve as a trusted advisor, thought partner, and sounding board to the EVP and Head of OCI.
• Help the executive maintain focus on the most important business, customer, organizational, and strategic priorities.
• Anticipate upcoming decisions, risks, dependencies, and organizational needs, and proactively prepare the executive and leadership team.
• Provide candid, thoughtful perspectives and synthesize complex issues into clear options, recommendations, and next steps.
• Support strategic time management by ensuring the executive’s schedule, preparation, and attention reflect the organization’s highest priorities.

Executive Partnership and Effectiveness

• Partner closely with the Executive Assistant to keep the executive on time, prepared, and equipped for critical meetings and engagements.
• Maintain continuity across executive discussions, decisions, commitments, and follow-up actions.

Executive Engagements

• Coordinate and prepare the executive for high-impact customer, partner, employee, public, analyst, and industry engagements.
• Work across internal teams to develop briefing materials, agendas, talking points, decision documents, and engagement objectives.
• Ensure the executive has the appropriate context, stakeholder perspectives, and desired outcomes before each engagement.
• Coordinate follow-up actions and ensure commitments made during executive engagements are clearly assigned and completed.

Organizational Execution

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional initiatives sponsored by the EVP or OCI executive leadership team.
• Translate executive priorities into clear workstreams, milestones, owners, decisions, and operating mechanisms.
• Drive progress across complex initiatives that span multiple organizations, geographies, and leadership teams.
• Identify execution gaps, conflicting priorities, unresolved dependencies, and emerging risks, and work with leaders to address them.

Leadership Team Partnership

• Build strong, trusted relationships across the OCI executive team and broader Oracle leadership community.
• Partner with executives and their teams to align priorities, prepare for leadership discussions, and resolve cross-organizational issues.
• Facilitate effective executive meetings, operating reviews, planning sessions, and leadership offsites.

Business Operations and Strategic Programs

• Partner closely with the Head of Business Operations and Strategic Programs to support OCI-wide planning, operating rhythms, and strategic initiatives.
• Provide additional leadership capacity for high-priority programs requiring executive sponsorship or cross-functional coordination.
• Support annual and long-range planning, leadership reviews, organizational priorities, and special projects.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in program management, business operations, strategy, executive operations, or a related leadership role.
• Demonstrated success supporting senior executives in a large, complex, global organization.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives involving senior leaders and diverse stakeholder groups.
• Exceptional judgment, discretion, and maturity when handling sensitive or confidential matters.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to communicate credibly with senior leaders, customers, partners, and external stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in cloud infrastructure, enterprise technology, engineering, product development, or a similarly complex technical environment.
• Experience serving in a chief of staff, executive business partner, strategy and operations, or executive program leadership capacity.
• Familiarity with customer-facing technology businesses and large-scale enterprise organizations.

Leadership Attributes

• Trusted: Operates with integrity, discretion, and sound judgment.
• Anticipatory: Sees around corners and addresses issues before they become obstacles.
• Strategic: Understands the broader business context and connects daily execution to long-term objectives.
• Operational: Creates structure, drives accountability, and consistently closes the loop.

Travel Requirements

This role requires approximately 25–33% travel to support executive, customer, partner, leadership, and industry engagements.

Pay

Range in USD from: $90,100 - $209,500 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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

Schedule

May require flexibility outside standard business hours.