Senior Product Manager, OKE

Own product strategy and execution for Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), spanning discovery through launch and ongoing adoption.

Responsibilities

• Partner with developers, platform engineers, application owners, and enterprise customers to understand Kubernetes adoption and operational challenges.
• Assess ecosystem trends, competing platforms, and migration needs to identify OKE product opportunities.
• Own the roadmap for a defined product area, aligning customer problems, priorities, and success criteria.
• Make product tradeoffs across customer value, technical complexity, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Design end-to-end experiences for cluster onboarding, configuration, node management, upgrades, scaling, and day-to-day operations.
• Support customers in maintaining reliable environments as workloads and Kubernetes requirements evolve.
• Improve workload deployment workflows and help customers integrate OKE into existing toolchains.
• Coordinate with teams delivering Terraform, Resource Manager, OCI DevOps, registries, and APIs to deliver consistent, repeatable workflows.
• Translate customer needs for availability, performance, security, observability, and cost into actionable product priorities.
• Work with engineering to resolve operational friction, compatibility concerns, and recurring support issues.
• Create requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria with engineering and design.
• Coordinate cross-service dependencies across compute, networking, storage, identity, and other OCI services; validate the full customer experience before release.
• Recruit design partners and early adopters, validate new capabilities, and coordinate release readiness.
• Collaborate with product marketing, solutions architects, documentation, and field teams on positioning, demos, enablement, and customer adoption.
• Define success metrics across onboarding completion, time to deploy workloads, successful upgrades, production adoption, and reduced operational effort.
• Use telemetry, customer feedback, and support trends to evaluate outcomes and iterate the roadmap.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience, including product management for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, developer platforms, or enterprise software.
• Strong technical foundation in Kubernetes architecture, containers, cluster lifecycle management, and production cloud environments.
• Working knowledge of cloud networking, compute, storage, IAM, registries, and observability as they relate to containerized application operations.
• Experience building products for platform engineering or DevOps teams, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, or GitOps workflows.
• Proven ability to define product requirements, prioritize roadmaps, and deliver capabilities from discovery through launch and adoption.
• Strong customer research and analytical skills, connecting customer problems, product usage, and business outcomes.
• Clear written and verbal communication, sound technical judgment, and the ability to influence engineering and business stakeholders across teams.

Technologies

• Kubernetes
• containers
• cluster lifecycle management
• cloud networking
• compute
• storage
• IAM
• registries
• observability
• infrastructure as code
• CI/CD pipelines
• GitOps workflows
• Terraform
• Resource Manager
• OCI DevOps
• APIs

Location: Nashville, TN (onsite)

Minimum experience: 5 years