Principal Program Manager, OCI Flagship Events & Experiences
Job description
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) powers the world's most demanding workloads, helping organizations innovate with secure, high-performance cloud services. As OCI continues its rapid growth, we're investing in operational excellence, strategic initiatives, and scalable business processes that enable our teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences and accelerate innovation.
Role Summary
Lead OCI’s strategy and experience at Oracle and industry flagship events, ensuring OCI has a differentiated presence that showcases engineering innovation, strengthens strategic partnerships, and creates high-value engagement with priority customers.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Own OCI strategy for major Oracle and third-party flagship events.
- Determine where OCI should invest, participate, sponsor, speak, activate, or create adjacent customer experiences.
- Develop differentiated OCI experiences including executive programs, engineering showcases, technical workshops, customer meetings, partner activations, and hospitality.
- Partner with other strategic technology partners on joint event opportunities.
- Coordinate OCI executive participation and high-value customer engagement around flagship events.
- Develop activation concepts that translate complex OCI technology into compelling experiences.
- Ensure consistent OCI positioning and storytelling across events.
- Evaluate event investments based on audience quality, customer engagement, strategic value, and business impact.
- Identify opportunities to extend flagship-event content and experiences into the OCI Summit portfolio.
Ideal Background
8+ years in experiential marketing, strategic events, integrated marketing, or technology marketing with strong executive and partner-management experience.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in experiential marketing, event strategy, integrated marketing, partnerships, or customer engagement.
- Proven experience developing strategy for major industry conferences, sponsorships, or large-scale brand experiences.
- Ability to translate business and technology priorities into compelling customer experiences.
- Strong executive, customer, partner, and cross-functional stakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing complex event investments, agencies, vendors, and strategic partners.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate opportunities and prioritize investments based on strategic and business value.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, presentation, and executive storytelling skills.
- Ability to independently lead multiple high-profile programs.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with major technology conferences and industry events.
- Experience developing joint programs with strategic technology partners.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure, AI, enterprise technology, and developer ecosystems.
- Experience designing executive hospitality and high-touch customer experiences.
- Experience with sponsorship strategy and contract negotiations.
- Strong network within the technology event ecosystem.
- Experience measuring event influence across customer engagement, pipeline, and strategic relationships.
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Qualifications
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $90,100 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC4
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