Principal Program Manager, OCI Flagship Events & Experiences

About the role

Lead Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) strategy and experience at Oracle and industry flagship events, ensuring OCI has a differentiated presence that showcases engineering innovation, strengthens strategic partnerships, and creates high-value engagement with priority customers.

Responsibilities

• Own OCI strategy for major Oracle and third-party flagship events.
• Determine where OCI should invest, participate, sponsor, speak, activate, or create adjacent customer experiences.
• Develop differentiated OCI experiences including executive programs, engineering showcases, technical workshops, customer meetings, partner activations, and hospitality.
• Partner with other strategic technology partners on joint event opportunities.
• Coordinate OCI executive participation and high-value customer engagement around flagship events.
• Develop activation concepts that translate complex OCI technology into compelling experiences.
• Ensure consistent OCI positioning and storytelling across events.
• Evaluate event investments based on audience quality, customer engagement, strategic value, and business impact.
• Identify opportunities to extend flagship-event content and experiences into the OCI Summit portfolio.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in experiential marketing, event strategy, integrated marketing, partnerships, or customer engagement.
• Proven experience developing strategy for major industry conferences, sponsorships, or large-scale brand experiences.
• Ability to translate business and technology priorities into compelling customer experiences.
• Strong executive, customer, partner, and cross-functional stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing complex event investments, agencies, vendors, and strategic partners.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate opportunities and prioritize investments based on strategic and business value.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, presentation, and executive storytelling skills.
• Ability to independently lead multiple high-profile programs.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with major technology conferences and industry events.
• Experience developing joint programs with strategic technology partners.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure, AI, enterprise technology, and developer ecosystems.
• Experience designing executive hospitality and high-touch customer experiences.
• Experience with sponsorship strategy and contract negotiations.
• Strong network within the technology event ecosystem.
• Experience measuring event influence across customer engagement, pipeline, and strategic relationships.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management or related field.
• PMP / Scrum Master certification.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with functional and technical teams.
• Experience with building and managing reporting tools to support Programs; such as scorecards and KPI metrics to further drive insights around program strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to balance quantitative and qualitative metrics to provide a holistic viewpoint.
• Expert level experience with Excel, creating dynamic pivot reports and data visualization.
• Ability to influence through data visualization and interpretation.
• Self-directed and able to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous situations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. With AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. We’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.