Principal Program Manager

Skip to main content. sitemap Profile Sign Out View More Jobs Principal Program Manager Nashville, TN, United States Job Identification 340593 Job Category Business practice and Operations Posting Date 07/21/2026, 05:58 PM Role Individual Contributor Job Type Regular Employee Does this position require a security clearance? No Years 6 to 10+ years Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English Job Description The Compute Control Plane team in Oracle's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) organization is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager  to join our fast growing team in Nashville!    The OCI Compute Control Plane team is at the center of many of OCI’s most critical business goals. We are challenged with scaling our services to meet growing demand, delivering critical features for our customers to help them manage their Compute instances, and delivering support for new HW platforms. We support both Bare Metal and Virtual machine instances across a diverse fleet of HW, including clustered GPU platforms. In addition, our customers demand high availability and security from our Cloud. We need a program leader who can thrive in ambiguity, work on complex, critical programs involving dozens of teams, build strong relationships with stakeholders and partner teams, and drive our teams to solve problems with significant business impact. We seek someone who can inspire others, and explain the “why” behind every project and every priority call.     This role will have focus areas in our Compute metering and also power management spaces. The role will involve contributing to the strategic vision, setting near-term roadmap items, executing on delivery in an efficient manner, cultivating a culture of high standards for quality and delivery, and growing the team. The successful hire will have the ability to understand and coordinate deeply technical work, is able to communicate clearly up to and including executive-level leadership, is adept at cross-organization problem solving, can organize complex work across multiple teams, and thrives in a high-impact, fast-paced environment.     This is a highly visible and impactful role based in Nashville, TN. You will be co-located with key leadership to maximize collaboration, accelerate delivery, and support OCI’s strategic growth initiatives.     Note that this role is onsite in our downtown Nashville offices and Oracle is now 5 days in the office.  Responsibilities Responsibilities Program Leadership: Own planning, execution, and delivery for complex OCI Compute programs spanning multiple engineering teams and partner organizations. Drive programs from problem definition through launch, adoption, and operational readiness. Execution & Delivery: Define milestones, dependencies, risks, decision points, and success metrics. Ensure teams have clear plans, measurable deliverables, and the right mechanisms to identify and correct execution gaps early. Cross-Team Coordination: Act as the connective tissue across Compute engineering, product, operations, capacity, security, finance, and other OCI partner teams. Build alignment across upstream and downstream dependencies and drive ambiguous or stalled issues to resolution. Technical Program Management: Develop strong technical depth in OCI Compute systems, cloud infrastructure, distributed services, automation, and operational workflows to understand tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and represent execution realities...