Principal Program Manager, Execution Operations

Principal Program Manager, Execution Operations

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking an experienced Principal Program Manager, Execution Operations, to serve as a trusted executive business partner to the Executive Vice President and Head of OCI.

This role will operate as a chief of staff–style function focused on executive effectiveness, organizational execution, and operational excellence. The Principal Program Manager will work in close partnership with the Executive Assistant, the Head of Business Operations and Strategic Programs, and members of the OCI executive leadership team to ensure the EVP's time, attention, and engagements are aligned with OCI's highest priorities.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional operator who combines sound judgment, strategic thinking, executive presence, and rigorous follow-through. This person will anticipate needs, identify risks before they emerge, connect information across the organization, and help translate executive direction into coordinated action.

This is a highly visible role requiring discretion, adaptability, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, complex, and highly technical environment.

Executive Partnership and Effectiveness

• Serve as a trusted advisor, thought partner, and sounding board to the EVP and Head of OCI.
• Help the executive maintain focus on the most important business, customer, organizational, and strategic priorities.
• Anticipate upcoming decisions, risks, dependencies, and organizational needs, and proactively prepare the executive and leadership team.
• Provide candid, thoughtful perspectives and synthesize complex issues into clear options, recommendations, and next steps.
• Support strategic time management by ensuring the executive's schedule, preparation, and attention reflect the organization's highest priorities.
• Partner closely with the Executive Assistant to keep the executive on time, prepared, and equipped for critical meetings and engagements.
• Maintain continuity across executive discussions, decisions, commitments, and follow-up actions.

Executive Engagements

• Coordinate and prepare the executive for high-impact customer, partner, employee, public, analyst, and industry engagements.
• Work across internal teams to develop briefing materials, agendas, talking points, decision documents, and engagement objectives.
• Ensure the executive has the appropriate context, stakeholder perspectives, and desired outcomes before each engagement.
• Coordinate follow-up actions and ensure commitments made during executive engagements are clearly assigned and completed.
• Help sequence and prioritize external engagements based on strategic importance, business value, and executive capacity.
• Partner with communications, sales, product, marketing, public relations, government affairs, and other stakeholders as needed.

Organizational Execution

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional initiatives sponsored by the EVP or OCI executive leadership team.
• Translate executive priorities into clear work streams, milestones, owners, decisions, and operating mechanisms.
• Drive progress across complex initiatives that span multiple organizations, geographies, and leadership teams.
• Identify execution gaps, conflicting priorities, unresolved dependencies, and emerging risks, and work with leaders to address them.
• Establish appropriate review cadences and provide concise, decision-oriented updates to executive stakeholders.
• Ensure important executive decisions and commitments are documented, communicated, and carried through to completion.
• Step into ambiguous or under-structured situations and create clarity, accountability, and momentum.

Leadership Team Partnership

• Build strong, trusted relationships across the OCI executive team and broader Oracle leadership community.
• Partner with executives and their teams to align priorities, prepare for leadership discussions, and resolve cross-organizational issues.
• Facilitate effective executive meetings, operating reviews, planning sessions, and leadership offsites.
• Help shape agendas and ensure meetings are focused on decisions, tradeoffs, and outcomes rather than status reporting.
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