Principal Program Manager, OCI 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

Own the end-to-end strategy and execution of OCI Engineering Summits, transforming the flagship Nashville experience into a repeatable global program while preserving the technical depth, executive access, and premium customer experience that differentiate the summit.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary program lead for the annual Nashville OCI Engineering Summit.
• Develop the global Summit playbook and adapt it for regional events.
• Lead cross-functional planning across Engineering, Product, Corporate Events, Sales, Customer Engineering, partners, and regional teams.
• Own master timelines, governance, dependencies, budgets, risks, and readiness.
• Develop attendee strategy, including audience segmentation, nominations, invitations, executive participation, and capacity management.
• Coordinate executive programming, strategic partner activations, technical workshops, networking, and customer experiences.
• Establish global standards while allowing appropriate regional customization.
• Lead post-event measurement and convert learnings into improvements for subsequent Summits.
• Identify opportunities to scale successful Summit programming into other OCI customer experiences.

Ideal Background

8+ years managing complex global programs or events with demonstrated experience influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in event strategy, experiential marketing, customer programs, or complex program management.
• Proven experience owning large-scale events or programs from strategy through execution and measurement.
• Exceptional program management skills, including timelines, budgets, dependencies, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional programs without direct authority.
• Strong experience working with senior executives and executive stakeholders.
• Experience managing agencies, vendors, venues, and external partners.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to translate strategy into scalable processes and repeatable programs.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience launching or scaling events across multiple countries or regions.
• Experience with highly technical or engineering-focused customer events.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure, AI, enterprise technology, or developer audiences.
• Experience developing executive engagement, hospitality, and customer networking programs.
• Experience managing invitation-only customer events.
• Experience partnering with regional marketing and sales organizations.
• Experience developing event playbooks and global standards.

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Minimum Qualifications: A minimum of 8 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.