Senior Principal Product Manager - Robotics Automation Platform

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is building new platform capabilities that help scientific and enterprise customers automate complex physical workflows across laboratory instruments, robotics systems, scientific data, and cloud services.

We are seeking a Senior Principal Product Manager to define the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and initial scope for the Robotics Automation Platform. This is a senior individual-contributor role for a technically strong product leader who can work from executive strategy to detailed product requirements.

You will work closely with strategic customers, scientists, laboratory operators, engineering, applied science, automation vendors, and OCI platform teams to turn real operating workflows into scalable product capabilities. Initially, you will lead product discovery, define the first pilot use cases, establish success measures, and recommend the investment and product plan needed to scale after pilot results are reviewed.

Location

Greater London or Oxford, United Kingdom. The role is hybrid and requires travel to a key customer’s Oxford office as needed for meetings, laboratory work, integration, and pilot support.

What You’ll Do

• Define the multi-year vision, product strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for Robotics Automation.
• Work directly with strategic customers, scientists, laboratory operators, and automation partners to understand workflows, constraints, unmet needs, and opportunities for automation.
• Observe and map manual, partially automated, and automated laboratory workflows to identify the highest-value product opportunities.
• Define and prioritize the first pilot use cases, including customer value, desired outcomes, acceptance criteria, success measures, and operational requirements.
• Define the product model for automated workflows, equipment and robot capabilities, access and approval rules, workflow policies, operational visibility, and exception handling.
• Translate customer and business needs into clear product requirements, user journeys, policies, and engineering priorities.
• Define product requirements for integrating liquid handlers, robot arms, imaging systems, scientific instruments, sensors, ELN/LIMS platforms, workflow tools, and vendor software.
• Partner with the Robotics Platform Engineer to evaluate technical options and make clear trade-offs among customer value, safety, reliability, cost, and delivery time.
• Define requirements for administrator, workflow-monitoring, and troubleshooting experiences in partnership with Shared Experience & Authoring.
• Establish success measures for adoption, workflow completion, operator intervention, reliability, traceability, resource use, cost, and customer value.
• Define requirements for safe execution, human approval, audit history, workflow recovery, experimental data, and operational reporting.
• Build the business case and investment recommendation for future Robotics Automation work using pilot results, customer feedback, market opportunity, technical feasibility, and expected business value.
• Drive the product lifecycle from discovery and prototype through pilot, launch, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate strategy, progress, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Influence across Product, Engineering, Applied Science, Security, Operations, Finance, and customer teams without formal authority.