As the Sr. Principal Product Manager for Hardware Strategy, OCI Dedicated Cloud, your primary objective will be to define and drive the commercial and technical hardware strategy required to support OCI’s Dedicated Cloud portfolio. This includes Dedicated Region, Oracle Alloy, Isolated Region, and other customer-specific OCI deployment models.
You will be responsible for shaping the product strategy for Dedicated Cloud infrastructure platforms, including compute, GPU, storage, networking, rack-scale designs, minimum viable deployment footprints, expansion models, lifecycle management, serviceability, supply chain readiness, and commercial packaging. You will work closely with OCI service teams, hardware engineering, capacity planning, data center engineering, networking, security, finance, sales, and operations teams to ensure that hardware capabilities align with customer demand, service roadmap needs, deployment economics, and Oracle’s go-to-market strategy.
This role requires both deep product management discipline and strong technical judgment. You will evaluate a broad range of hardware requirements from customers, field teams, engineering organizations, and executive stakeholders, then determine the right path forward based on business value, technical feasibility, cost, operational complexity, and strategic importance. You will need to understand the dependencies between cloud services and the underlying physical infrastructure, while also applying strong customer empathy and commercial judgment.
A successful candidate will have experience developing product strategy for complex infrastructure, hyperconverged or cloud platforms, defining hardware or platform requirements, influencing cross-functional teams, and operating in a high-growth, technically complex environment. The candidate should be comfortable working with senior executives, engineering leaders, sales teams, and customers, and should be able to translate ambiguous market and customer needs into clear product direction, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
Internal Responsibilities
Define and drive the hardware strategy for OCI Dedicated Cloud deployments, including DRCC, Oracle Alloy, Isolated Region, and customer-specific dedicated environments.
Own the product strategy for Dedicated Cloud hardware platforms, including compute, storage, networking, GPU, rack architecture, minimum deployment footprints, scaling models, and lifecycle strategy.
Partner with engineering, hardware architecture, supply chain, capacity planning, operations, finance, sales, and field teams to align hardware roadmap decisions with business and customer priorities.
Identify, define, and prioritize hardware capabilities, deployment models, commercial constructs, and roadmap requirements needed to support Dedicated Cloud growth.
Translate customer, field, and service team requirements into clear product requirements, business cases, roadmap inputs, and executive-ready recommendations.
Drive trade-off decisions across cost, performance, availability, serviceability, supply chain readiness, deployment complexity, and customer experience.
Represent the Dedicated Cloud hardware roadmap and strategy to internal stakeholders, service teams, field organizations, partners, and customers.
Define and manage business and operational metrics for Dedicated Cloud hardware strategy, including deployment cost, scalability, standardization, utilization, serviceability, and time-to-deploy.
Proactively identify risks, blockers, and execution gaps that could impact Dedicated Cloud deployments, customer commitments, or service roadmap delivery.
Act as a customer advocate throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring that Dedicated Cloud hardware platforms meet enterprise, sovereign, regulated, and partner deployment needs.
Create product documentation, strategy narratives, executive briefings, roadmap materials, and enablement content to support customer success and internal alignment.
10+ years of relevant product management, product strategy, infrastructure, cloud, hardware, or enterprise technology experience.
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure platforms, including compute, storage, networking, GPU infrastructure, data center architecture, or distributed systems.
Experience defining product strategy for complex technical platforms, ideally in cloud infrastructure, enterprise hardware, data center systems, or large-scale infrastructure services.
Demonstrated ability to develop commercial models, investment cases, roadmap priorities, and product requirements for technically complex offerings.
Proven track record of launching or scaling infrastructure, cloud, enterprise software, or hardware-based products in a cross-functional environment.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce executive-ready strategy documents, roadmap narratives, and decision recommendations.
Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior leaders across product, engineering, sales, finance, operations, and supply chain organizations.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to connect customer requirements, technical constraints, commercial outcomes, and operational execution.
Experience working directly with customers, field teams, partners, or executive stakeholders on strategic product or platform requirements.
Experience with hardware lifecycle planning, rack-scale systems, data center deployments, supply chain planning, capacity planning, or infrastructure cost modeling.
Experience with public cloud, dedicated cloud, sovereign cloud, hybrid cloud, or cloud-at-customer deployment models.
