Director, NPI and Sustaining Program Management – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Oracle · Austin, United States · 3mo ago
The Director of NPI Program Management is responsible for leading and orchestrating end-to-end new product introduction (NPI) execution across OCI hardware and infrastructure programs. This role will lead a team of Operations Program Managers who drive and lead global, cross-functional teams to deliver new products on the product roadmap. These releases will require driving alignment with product development, other functions within supply chain, and the delivery teams to ensure seamless transition across various organizations. In addition, this role will manage any operational activities required through the life of the program. Operating in a highly distributed environment, the Director ensures disciplined program governance, clear executive communication, and risk-managed execution across all release builds and product lifecycle management.
Key Responsibilities
NPI Planning & Program Leadership
Own and manage all NPI planning for product release builds, ensuring alignment across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality.
Drive program structure, timelines, dependencies, phase gates, risk mitigation, and deliverables across globally distributed teams.
Execution & Change Management
Drive alignment and the plan of record between demand planning and manufacturing on NPI builds and ramp production schedules.
Ensure all supply chain, manufacturing, and engineering functions are completing checklists and delivering to critical milestones.
Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate program risks across product, supply chain, and manufacturing readiness.
Ensure all compliance requirements are met.
Governance & Phase Gate Management
Define and enforce phase gate exit criteria for all NPI milestones.
Lead readiness and executive reviews, clearly outlining risks, trade-offs, and required actions.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Partner closely with Product Engineering, Test Engineering, and Quality to ensure manufacturability, scalability, and reliability.
Act as the central coordination point between design, manufacturing, and planning teams globally.
Product Life cycle Management
Manage products after NPI through sustaining and end-of-life
Drive stop/ship and purge activities and decisions, ensuring clear communication of impact, risk, and recovery plans.
Ensure any post NPI ECOs are implemented, and second source part qualifications are completed, to minimize supply risk and manufacturing disruptions.
Executive Communication
Deliver concise, high-impact updates to senior leadership, clearly articulating status, risks, and required decisions.
Standardize “net it out” communication practices across program teams.
Qualifications
12+ years of experience in program management, product engineering, or NPI within complex hardware or cloud infrastructure environments.
Proven track record leading large-scale, cross-functional product launches.
Deep expertise in product lifecycle management (PLM), ECO processes, and manufacturing readiness.
Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence across global, matrixed organizations.
Exceptional ability to distill complex issues into clear executive-level communication.
Impact of the Role
This role is critical to ensuring OCI products are launched with speed, quality, and operational readiness. By driving disciplined NPI execution and clear executive alignment, the Director accelerates time-to-market, reduces risk, and enables scalable deployment of next-generation cloud infrastructure.
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: $146,300 to $306,400 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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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 - M4