As Sr Director of Program Management and Chief of Staff you will work across Oracle to drive the rhythm of the business and manage strategic executive support services such as product roadmap planning, strategic direction, earnings reporting, organizational planning and hiring, finance and budgets, HR, metrics reporting, business analytics, managing special projects, reviewing/ghostwriting exec memos and acting as a proxy for presentations and critical meetings.
The role reports to the SVP of Product Management and works closely with their Leadership Team. As a member of the Leadership Team, you'll be a full contributor to all discussions and topics, participating in most relevant meetings and offering synthesized business perspectives relevant to influencing key strategic decisions.
Your particular focus is on improving the effectiveness of the leadership team and the business. You'll contribute tactically towards solutions with or on behalf of the team, and also think holistically about key operational rhythms, business processes, and procedures in order to enable more effective execution. You'll dig both deep and wide to quickly and proactively address any blockers encountered while moving toward our strategic priorities.
Internal Responsibilities
- Helping the SVP/leadership team filter/balance key priorities of the business.
- Translating dialogs/strategy into actions and/or projects that achieve leadership-expected outcomes.
- Building operational rhythms and calendars which anticipate the delivery needs of the organization and enable the leadership team to operate effectively and efficiently.
- Managing cadence, agenda/logistics for org-wide ceremonies (e.g. All Hands) and leadership meetings.
- Developing and managing annual, semi-annual, and quarterly processes specific to roadmapping and goal-development, plus refreshing strategy and technical priorities.
- Acting as single point of contact for strategic work streams.
- Driving internal executive communication functions, including broad employee engagement and reinforcement of organization vision/culture through planning and execution of the leader’s communication strategy.
- Preparation for key product and customer events.
- Driving key review processes, plus subsequent action definition, delegation, tracking, and management.
- Tracking status and managing communication on engineering and technical dependencies
- Proactively identifying issues that impede business group success and providing solutions/recommendations.
This Sr Director Program Management, Chief of Staff will have the experience described below:
- 8+ years of broad related experience such as business operations, program management, budgeting and financial planning, growth development, business management, and communications.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and enable executive leadership on complex business topics, plus ability to effectively collaborate, influence, and leverage outside resources to drive results.
- Strong project management skills and ability to lead multiple high-profile projects of varying timelines simultaneously.
- Ability to manage a high degree of complexity and to distill information into simple messages; able to think both strategically at a global level as well as effectively developing key processes.
- Exceptional cross-organization coordination and communication skills including ability to build comprehensive and compelling presentation and communication materials that span functions and groups.
- Strong interpersonal skills including ability to build trust, influence, and foster relationships with diverse team members; ability to leverage relationships to drive consistency of approach and ensure delivery.
- Ability to balance varying responsibilities that span rhythm of business, communications, executive management, and culture.
- Passion to foster a culture of efficiency and high performance through initiatives, training & education, and communication.
- Bias towards data-drive decision making that–when appropriate–takes a backseat to high-judgement guesses and bets that are refined with data over time.
- Technical aptitude.
- Manages confidentiality without exception.
- Bachelors’ degree or Master’s Degree or equivalent experience.
External Responsibilities
- Helping the SVP/leadership team filter/balance key priorities of the business.
- Translating dialogs/strategy into actions and/or projects that achieve leadership-expected outcomes.
- Building operational rhythms and calendars which anticipate the delivery needs of the organization and enable the leadership team to operate effectively and efficiently.
- Managing cadence, agenda/logistics for org-wide ceremonies (e.g. All Hands) and leadership meetings.
- Developing and managing annual, semi-annual, and quarterly processes specific to roadmapping and goal-development, plus refreshing strategy and technical priorities.
- Acting as single point of contact for strategic work streams.
- Driving internal executive communication functions, including broad employee engagement and reinforcement of organization vision/culture through planning and execution of the leader’s communication strategy.
- Preparation for key product and customer events.
- Driving key review processes, plus subsequent action definition, delegation, tracking, and management.
- Tracking status and managing communication on engineering and technical dependencies
- Proactively identifying issues that impede business group success and providing solutions/recommendations.
This Sr Director Program Management, Chief of Staff will have the experience described below:
- 8+ years of broad related experience such as business operations, program management, budgeting and financial planning, growth development, business management, and communications.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and enable executive leadership on complex business topics, plus ability to effectively collaborate, influence, and leverage outside resources to drive results.
- Strong project management skills and ability to lead multiple high-profile projects of varying timelines simultaneously.
- Ability to manage a high degree of complexity and to distill information into simple messages; able to think both strategically at a global level as well as effectively developing key processes.
- Exceptional cross-organization coordination and communication skills including ability to build comprehensive and compelling presentation and communication materials that span functions and groups.
- Strong interpersonal skills including ability to build trust, influence, and foster relationships with diverse team members; ability to leverage relationships to drive consistency of approach and ensure delivery.
- Ability to balance varying responsibilities that span rhythm of business, communications, executive management, and culture.
- Passion to foster a culture of efficiency and high performance through initiatives, training & education, and communication.
- Bias towards data-drive decision making that–when appropriate–takes a backseat to high-judgement guesses and bets that are refined with data over time.
- Technical aptitude.
- Manages confidentiality without exception.
- Bachelors’ degree or Master’s Degree or equivalent experience.
