Manager, OCI Global Events & Summits

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 the strategy, planning, and execution of OCI’s global event portfolio, including OCI Engineering Summits, strategic customer events, and OCI participation at Oracle and industry flagship events. This leader will build a scalable operating model that connects event investments to OCI business priorities, customer engagement, product adoption, and executive relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the global OCI Summits and strategic events portfolio, roadmap, budget, and operating model.
• Establish a repeatable framework for scaling OCI Engineering Summits across the globe and other priority markets.
• Define event strategy in partnership with OCI Engineering, Product, GTM, Corporate Events, regional marketing, and executive leadership.
• Establish governance, planning timelines, decision rights, KPIs, and executive reporting across the portfolio.
• Manage agency and strategic vendor relationships and oversee high-value event investments.
• Develop executive engagement strategies, including customer meetings, roundtables, dinners, and leadership programming.
• Measure event effectiveness across customer engagement, executive participation, product adoption, pipeline influence, and attendee experience.
• Lead and develop the OCI Summits & Flagship Events team.

Ideal Background
10+ years in global event marketing, experiential marketing, integrated marketing, or strategic programs, including experience managing complex global events, executive stakeholders, agencies, and significant budgets.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in global events, experiential marketing, integrated marketing, or strategic program management.
• 3+ years of people management experience, including developing and leading high-performing teams.
• Proven experience leading large-scale, high-visibility customer events or global event portfolios.
• Strong executive stakeholder management and ability to influence senior leaders across multiple organizations.
• Experience managing significant event budgets, agencies, vendors, contracts, and procurement processes.
• Demonstrated ability to establish strategy, governance, operating models, and measurable program objectives.
• Exceptional cross-functional leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to manage multiple complex programs simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within cloud infrastructure, enterprise technology, AI, or developer-focused organizations.
• Experience scaling a successful event or customer program globally.
• Experience developing executive customer engagement programs.
• Experience working with engineering, product, sales, and marketing organizations.
• Experience managing strategic technology partnerships and joint events.
• Strong understanding of event measurement, customer engagement metrics, and ROI.

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Minimum Qualifications: A minimum of 5 years combined experience with project management, data analysis and direct business experience within a specialized function. Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management or related field. PMP / Scrum Master certification. Proven ability to work cross-functionally with functional and technical teams. Experience with building and managing reporting tools to support Programs, such as scorecards and KPI metrics to further drive insights around our program strategy. Demonstrated ability to balance quantitative and qualitative metrics to provide a holistic viewpoint. Expert level experience with Excel, creating dynamic pivot reports and data visualization. Ability to influence through data visualization and interpretation. Must be self-directed and able to work independently as well as in a team environment. Must be comfortable working in ambiguous situations. Excellent interpersonal skills. Depending on the job there may be additional minimum requirements and/or preferred qualifications.