Product Marketing Director, Cloud Infrastructure

Product Marketing
Director, Converged Infrastructure

Are you passionate about
Oracle’s strategy to lead in the cloud-first world? Do you love to compete? Do
you thrive in dynamic environments where the market landscape is constantly
changing and you need to anticipate competitors’ moves? Are you excited by the
opportunity to make Oracle THE #1 cloud platform in the market?

The Cloud Business Group
GTM product marketing team is looking for a Product Marketing
Director to help shape our
GTM efforts around Cloud Infrastructure. This includes modern digital marketing,
cross-pillar messaging, competitive strategy, development of personas based messaging
and selling, buyer-driven solutions for LOB and SMBs, social media, online
campaigns, and go to market efforts relative to sales enablement. This role
will work in collaboration with key stakeholders across marketing, product
development and field sales teams globally across multiple product groups
including Cloud, Analytics, Database and Infrastructure.  

As a manager in product marketing, you will be responsible for the following:

• Leading the development
  of Cloud GTM marketing specifications for Converged Infrastructure
• Manage marketing
  activities within the context of the overall corporate plan to meet company
  objectives.
• Lead buyer driven
  campaigns for multiple solutions across pillars – includes SMB, IT and LOB
  personas
• Monitor the development
  of business plans and business results.
• Manage lifecycles and
  product positioning in the market place.
• Identify customer needs,
  oversee market research, and monitor the market trends/competitive landscape –
  especially focused on AWS and MSFT Azure
• Implement and monitor
  field sales plays, integrated campaigns.
• Act as a technical
  advisor for specific product(s) including public speaking.
• Initiate and foster
  relationships with development, sales, and other groups to develop new products
  or enhance functionality of existing product(s) or product line(s).
• Ensure successful
  product releases based on corporate priorities.
• Directs and ensures the
  implementation of operational policies through subordinate managers. Interacts
  internally and externally with executive management involving negotiation of
  difficult matters to influence policy.
• Building developer
  focused content to help customers understand Oracle vs. competitor’s offerings
• Defining and creating a complete
  content BOM including use cases, detailed personas, key themes, customer
  lifecycle messaging, differentiated value propositions and ROI, field
  communications and sales enablement readiness in partnership with other product
  marketing managers, product management and field sales teams.
• Partnering with members
  of other teams within the marketing org, including advertising, digital,
  communication, integrated marketing and product marketing teams to put compete
  marketing plans into action

• Experienced in leading
  go-to-market for enterprise software and emerging styles of GTM for Cloud-based
  packaged business solutions.
• Understanding of Enterprise
  Infrastructure and Software, Cloud PaaS and/or IaaS technologies related to one
  or multiple areas such as Analytics, Database and Infrastructure.
• Understand key customer
  trends & use cases such as dev/test, micro services, SaaS integration, big
  data analytics, API Management, PaaS for SaaS
• Experience with or
  knowledge of Oracle’s Cloud offerings. Hands-on experience with our technology
  and experience or desire to learn and go deep our competitors’ products and
  services.
• The ability to work
  across teams (engineering, marketing, sales and services) to ensure we create
  and promote the right competitive messages through the right vehicles
• Demonstrated bias for
  action and driving results
• At least 10 years’
  experience in roles such as marketing or sales, evangelism, program management,
  etc. within the hi-tech industry

The candidate should
also have: 

• B.A./B.S in Computer
  Science or Engineering (preferred), Marketing or related field
• Preferably,
  an M.B.A (or equivalent in related work experience)

Position
Location: Oracle HQ in SF Bay area.

Travel
Component: approx. 10%-15% globally

As part of Oracle’s employment
process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening
process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and
employment verification, salary verification, professional references,
education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if
applicable).

Development and implementation of business plans, marketing strategy, and forecasts for a product/service or vertical market.

As a product analyst you will participate in every stage of the product life cycle to ensure product meets the needs of users. Drive the implementation of programs in support of the marketing strategy, business plans, and forecasts for assigned product lines. Maintains current status of customer specifications for existing and future products. Identify, evaluate, and recommend marketing opportunities in support of product line objectives. Drive product functionality delivering high quality product documentation. Lead products through scheduled release assisting others to manage commitments and resources. Measure and report progress and review deliverables.

Acknowledged authority within the Corporation. Provides leadership and expertise in the development of new products/services/processes, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology. Demonstrated product/project management experience. Ability to work with Executives. Strong interpersonal skills. Excellent written and verbal communication. Demonstrated product/project management experience. Creative, energetic, and enthusiastic. Team player. Experience using or implementing Oracle, SAP, or Peoplesoft applications. Basic HTML and web technology skills a plus. BA/BS/MBA degree.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job

Marketing

Location

US-California

Job Type

Regular Employee Hire

Organization

Oracle

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