Product Director Jobs in Tennessee

INTRODUCTION

Advises teams to conduct thorough market research and analysis for multiple product portfolios, ensuring alignment with Oracle's strategic goals and anticipating and responding to industry shifts and competitive challenges. Oversees teams in identifying and capitalizing on customer needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements. Leads internal teams in the development of problem statements and solutions. Directs the product lifecycle from planning to release and empowers team members to maintain and evolve roadmaps for a wide range of products/features. Establishes best-in-class practices for the organization and leverages insights to drive product optimization and high-impact results. Obtains alignment with key stakeholders to define and drive product direction. Maintains alignment across Lines of Business (LOB) to drive product innovation and evolution. Recommends success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., OKRs and KPIs) for multiple products and features. Proactively monitors teams in customer advocacy and customer-centric approaches throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring that products are tailored to customer needs. Sets guidelines on the resolution development process for customer issues. Oversees and coordinates the delivery for the field team and directs various go-to-market efforts, such as recruiting and supporting early adopters to validate and refine product solutions, developing user documentation, and product demonstrations.

Key Responsibilities

Product Analysis – Market Analysis:

• Coordinates teams to conduct market research and analysis, enabling teams to evaluate complex data patterns across multiple portfolios and prioritize high-value initiatives.

• Advises teams to ensure the product portfolio aligns with Oracle’s goals and anticipates/responds to industry shifts and competitive challenges.

• Directs cross-functional teams to drive alignment between customers, the market, internal stakeholders, and Oracle’s broader strategic vision.

• Obtains alignment from stakeholders on market trend analysis and gathered market information to shape product positioning, pricing, and market strategy, ensuring Oracle’s offerings remain industry-leading.

Product Analysis – Solution Identification:

• Oversees teams in identifying and capitalizing on customers' unmet needs, market opportunities, and regulatory requirements, integrating these insights into the broader business strategy.

• Leads internal teams in developing problem statements and hypotheses for innovative products, ensuring alignment with customer needs, market trends, and organizational objectives.

• Directs solution identification processes and provides oversight on solutions identified.

• Sets guidelines for the creation and maintenance of solution artifacts (e.g., regulatory requirements, functional and non-functional requirements, user documentation) to ensure alignment and clarity.

Product Ownership – Product Development and Road mapping:

• Directs the planning, execution, and release processes for the organization’s product lifecycle, aligning with long-term strategic business goals.

• Empowers team members to maintain and evolve the roadmap for a wide range of products/features, ensuring seamless alignment with overarching business strategies.

• Directs others in establishing and developing feature requirements and resources, setting best-in-class practices for the organization.

• Collaborates with key stakeholders to drive delivery excellence, adherence to project timelines, and achievement of strategic milestones.

• Guides teams collecting and analyzing metrics (e.g., Service Requests, bugs, customer feedback, customer volumes), leveraging insights to drive product optimization and impactful results.

• Refines the development and review of user stories and acceptance criteria, assuring top-tier product quality and exceptional customer satisfaction.

• Aligns diverse teams on prioritizing and executing high-value features and experiences, ensuring delivery on success criteria and OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to drive business growth.

Product Ownership – Product Leadership and Influence:

• Obtains alignment with key stakeholders to define and drive product direction consistent with the company's vision, business goals, and customer needs.

• Scopes work needed to develop products and deliver exceptional customer experiences in line with Oracle’s desired future state.

• Directs business performance and operations reviews to track progress and identify areas for improvement.

• Guides the innovation and evolution of products through the identification and prioritization of new features and enhancements.

Alignment and Collaboration:

• Maintains alignment across business units, ensuring seamless integration of insights and fostering high-level communication channels to drive success.

• Develops cross-team guidance, empowering teams to effectively manage and overcome stakeholder pushback.

• Oversees the development and execution of innovative solutions tied to OKRs and KPIs, ensuring high-impact results.

• Recommends success criteria and performance metrics (OKRs, KPIs) for multiple products and features, aligning with long-term organizational goals.

• Leads cross-team user testing and iterative development, ensuring product enhancements are user-driven and market-relevant.

Customer-Centricity:

• Proactively monitors teams advocating for customers and integrating feedback throughout the product lifecycle.

• Leads teams in engaging with customers to gather feedback and transforms it into strategic improvements for Oracle's offerings.

• Drives teams to adopt a customer-centric approach that identifies and prioritizes enhancements delivering substantial business value.

• Scopes and defines new product capabilities and feature designs, ensuring alignment with customer feedback and market analysis.

• Directs teams to ensure alignment between product development and customer needs.

• Drives cross-functional collaboration to ensure holistic product consumer satisfaction and successful adoption.

• Sets guidelines on the resolution process for customer issues to ensure satisfaction and product quality.

Product Release – Go-to-Market:

• Oversees and coordinates delivery for the field team, ensuring accuracy of materials and alignment across teams.

• Directs and sets guidelines for recruiting and supporting early adopters to validate and refine product solutions.

• Oversees the development of user documentation to ensure accuracy and user alignment for multiple products.

• Monitors the product adoption tracking process, developing initiatives and strategies to improve adoption as needed.

• Directs product demonstrations for internal/external customers, partners, industry analysts, and the field, driving promotion of new releases and value.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• Oversees and guides multiple teams in managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets to ensure strategic objectives are met.

• Serves as a role model for effective delegation, priority setting, and alignment with business needs.

• Coaches others on adjusting resources or timelines as business needs change.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• Role models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to align expectations and strategic objectives.

• Empowers teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and customers to address barriers and enable long-term success.

• Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling active listening and leveraging diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving:

• Shares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational/technical issues as needed.

• Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data to resolve ambiguous issues and provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence.

Continuous Learning:

• Pursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.

• Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to develop expertise in new areas, coaching for innovative skill development.

• Identifies skill gap trends across the organization and upholds a culture of knowledge sharing and pursuit of learning.

• Evaluates learning strategies for effectiveness and recommends adjustments.

Continuous Improvement:

• Empowers teams to develop and implement ideas improving process and workflow efficiency at the departmental level.

• Coaches teams to gain support for improvement ideas and encourages open feedback on new approaches.

• Prioritizes and reviews improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and return on investment.

Performance and Development:

• Serves as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching aligned with management processes.

• Drives consistency in talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.

• Ensures individual development goals align with strategic initiatives.

• Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.