Principal Product Manager- Oracle Unifier

Providence, RI, United States

Job Description

We are looking for an energetic and talented individual to be a pivotal member of the Unifier Product Management team with a focus on delivering Industry Solutions based on Unifier.

The focus of the Product Manager will be to act in a way to not simply deliver “features” but instead understand problems, collaboratively solving problems, and delivering solutions that customers love and use. Like the Senior Manager, you will be measured on key KPIs including not just financial & ROI, but also adoption and satisfaction metrics for solutions. In other words, do customer use the solution and do they like it.

You will drive for consistency, a culture of delivery and customer satisfaction, with 5 key measures:

Adoption “Are people using it?”

Customer Satisfaction “Do they like it?”

Financial “Are they buying it?”

ROI “Are we making money?”

Employee satisfaction “Are we aligned?”

Key Responsibilities

This is a position that requires a combination of strong engagement and communication skills, pragmatic thinking, tactical execution and the ability to balance an ever challenging mix of priorities and stakeholder views. You will be collaborating with your Senior Manager, Product Strategy, pre-Sales, Product Marketing, and internal teams focused on industry verticals to deliver solutions that grow the business.

Key responsibilities include:

Understand the customer and their needs and is their advocate

Understand the market, customers and product management strategy and convey these contexts to the team.

Work with your manager for the creation, management and prioritisation of a product backlog, and for assessing what is appropriate to release to market

Configure, maintain and enhance the industry solutions based on Unifier

Communicate with and get buy in from key stakeholders on product strategy, including external (our customers) and internal. Continue to make development, marketing, support and importantly sales and pre-sales feel good about your stream’s offerings and direction.

Make decisions based on specific and deep market and metrics analysis.

Work with the Senior Manager to measure and report on the success of your solutions, particularly around adoption and satisfaction.

Ensure that what we build adds up to meaningful experiences for our customers

Plan ahead over 3-5 sprints and monitor progress during sprints. Resolve with stakeholder input any ambiguities and conflicts with other existing or new functionality.

Ensure customer facing departments understand the changes we make to our products

Gather feedback to improve our solutions

Be subject matter experts in our products

Proactively contribute to ongoing process improvement and ensure high quality outcomes for our customers

Review and contribute to user documentation as a part of our release to market processes

Pro-active in helping others through building capability and supporting peers.

The Product Manager will be a flexible, results-oriented, and experienced product management professional. This role combines a great instinct for developing compelling products with a strong focus on users; a technical aptitude to work with a world class development team; and the business sense to drive product goals and strategies.

Commercial

Assist the Senior Manager with:

Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.

Specify market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and other industry stakeholders

Analyze potential partner relationships for the product.

Set and deliver commercial targets for the product

General

Understand the competitors’ products in terms of positioning, features and benefits, and account acquisition strategies

Build an excellent knowledge of the CEGBU’s products, mapping how the new product set interfaces to the existing product set.

Candidate Requirements

Required Skills and Experience

Essential:

Unifier experience strongly preferred.

5+ years product management or technical consulting experience required.

Some SaaS or network-based business expertise

Experience making sophisticated product decisions in a competitive market and getting it right!

Must always be thinking about the customer. Must be maniacal about focusing on product issues and initiatives that will create engaged and happy users (which ultimately generate revenue).

Have a strong business sense and ability to grasp customer’s needs and expectations.

Demonstrated ability to gather user requirements and convert them into a winning product vision.

Desirable:

Experience of developing reports using Oracle BI Publisher

Experience in Agile/SAFe Development

Experience working in a fast-growing business

Experience with organizations in the never-ending process of transitioning to Agile development methodologies.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

Understand the customer and their needs and is their advocate

Understand the market, customers and product management strategy and convey these contexts to the team.

Work with your manager for the creation, management and prioritisation of a product backlog, and for assessing what is appropriate to release to market

Configure, maintain and enhance the industry solutions based on Unifier

Communicate with and get buy in from key stakeholders on product strategy, including external (our customers) and internal. Continue to make development, marketing, support and importantly sales and pre-sales feel good about your stream’s offerings and direction.

Make decisions based on specific and deep market and metrics analysis.

Work with the Senior Manager to measure and report on the success of your solutions, particularly around adoption and satisfaction.

Ensure that what we build adds up to meaningful experiences for our customers

Plan ahead over 3-5 sprints and monitor progress during sprints. Resolve with stakeholder input any ambiguities and conflicts with other existing or new functionality.

Ensure customer facing departments understand the changes we make to our products

Gather feedback to improve our solutions

Be subject matter experts in our products

Proactively contribute to ongoing process improvement and ensure high quality outcomes for our customers

Review and contribute to user documentation as a part of our release to market processes

Pro-active in helping others through building capability and supporting peers.

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: from $87,600 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.

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