Senior Principal Product Marketing Director, Events and Program Management Office, Oracle AI Database Product Marketing
Oracle is seeking a highly organized, strategic, and execution-focused Events Manager to drive the planning, delivery, and operational excellence of Oracle AI Database Product Marketing events and programs. This role combines world-class event management with Project Management Office (PMO) responsibilities, ensuring that Oracle AI Database events and strategic initiatives are delivered with precision and measurable business impact.
The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, excels at cross-functional coordination, and can seamlessly balance event execution with program governance, planning, and operational management. Approximately 80% of the role focuses on event strategy and execution, while 20% is dedicated to PMO activities supporting the Product Marketing organization.
Events Management (80%)
Strategic Event Planning
- Develop and execute a comprehensive events strategy supporting Oracle AI Database business objectives, customer engagement, demand generation, and thought leadership initiatives.
Manage a portfolio of events, including:
- Oracle AI World and Oracle AI World Tour
- Customer and executive briefings
- Industry conferences and trade shows
- Webinars and virtual events
- Partner with Product Marketing leaders to align event objectives, messaging, content, and audience engagement strategies.
Event Execution
- Lead end-to-end event planning, logistics, and delivery.
- Develop event timelines, budgets, project plans, and success metrics.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders including Product Marketing, Product Management, Development, Sales, Corporate Communications, Corporate Marketing, Digital Marketing, Customer Success, and Executive Leadership.
- Manage external vendors, agencies, venues, production teams, and contractors.
- Oversee speaker management, executive preparation, agenda development, and content coordination.
- Ensure consistent branding, messaging, and customer experience across all event touchpoints.
Measurement and Optimization
- Define event KPIs and success metrics.
- Track event performance, attendance, engagement, pipeline influence, and customer impact.
- Deliver post-event analysis and recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Maintain event dashboards and executive reporting.
Budget Management
- Manage event budgets and forecasting.
- Track expenditures and vendor contracts.
- Identify cost optimization opportunities while maintaining high-quality event experiences.
PMO and Operational Excellence (20%)
Program Management
- Support Product Marketing leadership in managing strategic initiatives, planning cycles, and organizational priorities.
- Maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, and action items for key AI Database marketing initiatives and projects.
- Drive accountability across cross-functional teams to ensure on-time delivery of commitments.
Governance and Reporting
- Develop and maintain program dashboards, status reports, and executive summaries.
- Facilitate weekly and monthly business reviews.
- Track project health, timelines, deliverables, and resource allocation.
Process Improvement
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and improve operational efficiency.
- Establish repeatable project management best practices across the Product Marketing organization.
- Support annual planning, quarterly business reviews, and organizational readiness initiatives.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience in event management, marketing operations, program management, or related disciplines.
- Proven experience managing large-scale corporate events and executive programs.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
- Strong analytical and reporting capabilities.
- Experience working with cross-functional global teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision and strategically prioritize multiple tasks while coordinating activities across multiple marketing, development, field, and sales organizations. Ability to parallel process multiple projects with minimal supervision is key to this role.
- 8+ years of B2B event management expertise, ideally at a leading cloud provider, within cloud database, data, AI, or ML domains (preferably for enterprise products).
- An understanding of cloud database technologies, agentic AI, generative AI, large language models, ML, and data management. Direct experience marketing cloud-based database or AI-driven data platform products at events is strongly preferred.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the proven ability to independently develop high-impact marketing assets—including customer presentations, product launch materials, and product or feature blogs—for both customer-facing and executive audiences, often on short notice.
- Prior success in leading global event execution for enterprise cloud products, and marketing campaigns—including distilling complex ideas into compelling content, webinars, and events for a multitude of audiences across industries and geographies.
- The aptitude and desire to work on both strategic programs and tactical implementations.
- Experience within enterprise software, cloud computing, AI, database technologies, or B2B technology marketing.
- PMP certification or equivalent project management training.
- Experience supporting Product Marketing or Product Development organizations.
- Familiarity with event management platforms, marketing automation tools, CRM / CX systems, and project management software.
- Experience managing executive-level events and customer engagement programs.
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: $115,400 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- 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.
- 11 paid holidays
- 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.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- 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 - IC5