Senior Manager, Software Development – Media Services

Job Description

Location:

(Hybrid role, must be onsite 2-3 days per week)

• Broomfield, CO
• Austin, TX
• Nashville, TN

You will partner with executive leadership to define and execute a successful strategy, leveraging your experience as an engineering leader to provide clear direction and influence. We seek a leader with deep expertise in not only cloud migration but in building, delivering, and operating cloud services / tooling that advance Oracle’s media-first cloud vision. Experience with video playback, video encoding, CDN-based content delivery, live streaming, and especially cross-cloud or on‑prem migrations is highly desirable.

Beyond technical acumen, you must bring strong soft skills – exceptional communication, collaboration, and the ability to mentor and develop talent. You are confident driving complex, cross-functional initiatives end to end and will continually serve as a catalyst for technical innovation.

• Recruit, hire and maintain engineering staff / consultants which deliver and operate cloud services that enable M&E firms to move their workloads to OCI.
• Lead consulting and onboarding teams to plan and execute enterprise migrations to OCI, including discovery, solution design, migration runbooks, integration with customer media workflows, and post-launch success measurement.
• Launch new tools and cloud services which establish operational excellence, including SLAs/SLOs, incident management, and continuous improvement practices.
• Set and drive the technical direction for the team and partner organizations; collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Security, Sales, CSM, Support and Customers.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry best practices, ensuring compliance while driving innovation.
• Establish and stimulate software development standards and processes along with best practices for the org.
• Develop strategic plans with leadership, team, and customers; define OKRs and KPIs to inform prioritization and decision-making.
• Build and lead high-performing, geographically distributed teams; mentor managers and engineers to grow top talent.
• Engage directly with executive leadership and key customer stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with business outcomes.
• Drive domain execution across playback, content augmentation, video transcoding and packaging, content delivery using CDNs, live streaming, streaming analytics, and flexible billing and cost analytics.
• Create repeatable onboarding playbooks, training, and readiness materials to scale customer adoption; channel customer feedback into product and platform roadmaps.

• Proven experience (10 years) building and delivering cloud-based, large/enterprise-scale software development management experience; proven success leading high-impact teams and programs.
• Experience with a large-scale cloud migration, preferably related to media workloads.
• Experience leading the development and operation of cloud services. Including an eye for continuous improvement, passion for automation, and iteratively refining processes to increase efficiency.
• Experience managing managers and multiple engineering teams preferred.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with and leading geo-distributed teams.
• Domain expertise in media and entertainment workflows: playback, content augmentation, transcoding/packaging, CDN-based delivery, live streaming, streaming analytics, and cost/billing analytics.
• Strong communication and leadership skills; capable of mentoring engineers and driving complex, cross-functional initiatives with confidence. Proven ability to define and deliver against OKRs and KPIs.
• Experience leading customer-facing consulting/professional services or onboarding programs for major media and entertainment firms (preferred). Direct experience at a media studio is highly desired.
• BS in Computer Science or related field; advanced degree a plus.

• Willingness to travel to customer sites and Oracle locations as needed to support onboarding and operational excellence.

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.