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About Oracle Global Events Oracle’s mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, and unlock endless possibilities. Global Events brings this mission to life through customer and partner experiences, including global flagship conferences, executive programs, hybrid events, and other high-impact engagements. These events connect Oracle with customers, partners, industry leaders, and communities worldwide to strengthen our brand, deepen relationships, and deliver measurable business impact. Our organization combines strategy, creativity, production, technology, and operational excellence to deliver exceptional experiences at scale. About the Role Reporting to the Vice President, Global Events & Communications, the Director, Experiential & Executive Events owns strategy, program direction, and the customer experience across Oracle’s global events portfolio. This role leads the experiential events and customer activations teams, aligning to Oracle’s business priorities.
The Director sets the portfolio roadmap and experience standards, creating programs that connect Oracle leaders with senior decision-makers and bring Oracle’s innovation to life. Working with Executive Producers and Global Events partners, this leader guides programs from concept through delivery and measurement. The role combines organizational leadership, executive engagement expertise, creative judgment, and accountability for customer experience and business impact. About You You understand how exceptional experiences build executive relationships and lasting customer engagement. You connect business strategy, audience insight, storytelling, and experience design to create purposeful programs. Comfortable advising senior leaders and reviewing creative concepts, you balance ambition with practical delivery, thoughtful investment, and measurable outcomes.
You are an inclusive, emotionally intelligent leader who builds teams, develops talent, and creates clear ownership. You establish trusted relationships with executives, customers, and partners, navigating a matrixed global organization with discretion and sound judgment. You remain composed as priorities shift and know when to coach, delegate, or intervene to achieve results. Responsibilities Team Leadership and Organizational Management
• Build and scale the team, defining its strategy, organizational structure, roles, and capabilities to support Oracle’s global event portfolio.
• Lead and develop the teams responsible for executive and experiential events. Set priorities, performance expectations, and decision rights across employees, contractors, and agency partners.
• Coach managers and individual contributors, strengthen succession plans, and allocate talent across concurrent programs. Build a collaborative culture of creativity, accountability, and customer focus.
Executive Events
• Own the global executive events strategy and portfolio, including executive summits, , dinners, retreats, and executive programs within flagship conferences. Define audiences, objectives, formats, and investment priorities.
• Partner with executive offices, Sales, and customer leadership to engage C-suite decision-makers. Align invitations, executive participation, and relationship objectives to customer needs and business priorities.
• Guide agendas, thought leadership, speaker selection, peer exchange, and executive preparation with Content and Communications. Set standards for personalized guest journeys, hospitality, protocol, and discreet handling of sensitive information.
• Oversee program delivery and readiness with Event Operations and production partners. Ensure coordinated engagement before, during, and after each event, with clear ownership of follow-up and next steps.
Experiential Events and Customer Activations
• Own the strategy and lead the team responsible for experiential events and customer activations across Oracle’s event portfolio, including immersive environments, and interactive experiences featuring our customers.
• Translate Oracle’s brand, products, and customer stories into compelling experiences. Guide creative briefs, concepts, and audience journeys that make complex technology relevant and invite meaningful participation.
• Partner with Creative, Product Marketing, product experts, and customer teams on demonstrations, storytelling, and activations. Connect physical and digital touchpoints to create a coherent, accessible experience.
• Set experience standards and approve concepts with internal teams and agencies. Evaluate emerging formats and technologies, scaling successful activations while preserving relevance for different audiences, regions, and industries.Participate in the development and execution of corporate events marketing programs.
Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Event Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 12+ years of progressive experience in executive events, experiential marketing, or global corporate events, including significant people leadership and strategic portfolio ownership.
- Proven ability to build and scale teams, including organizational design, recruiting, coaching, and leadership of distributed employees and agencies.
- Demonstrated success developing executive event strategies and leading high-touch C-suite programs that deepen customer relationships and support business priorities.
- A strong record of shaping experiential events and customer activations, with expertise in creative briefing, storytelling, audience journeys, immersive experiences, and brand integration.
- Experience directing agencies, evaluating creative concepts and proposals, setting scopes, and holding partners accountable for quality, budgets, and results.
- Ability to oversee concurrent global programs, balancing customer needs, strategic priorities, and delivery requirements.
- Strong financial acumen in portfolio planning, budgeting, forecasting, resource allocation, and investment evaluation.
- Exceptional leadership, coaching, communication, and influencing skills across executive offices and cross-functional teams.
- Executive presence, discretion, and sound judgment with senior leaders and customers; ability to navigate sensitive situations and decisions under pressure.
- Experience in matrixed global organizations, preferably enterprise technology, and understanding of strategic accounts.
- Strong analytical and program management skills; ability to define KPIs and use engagement data to improve performance.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally for planning, executive events, and experiential program delivery.
About Oracle As a leader in cloud technology and enterprise innovation, Oracle helps organizations worldwide solve complex challenges and unlock new opportunities. We seek collaborative, creative, entrepreneurial people who embrace challenges, question conventions, and help shape what’s next. Oracle offers competitive compensation and benefits, professional growth opportunities, and a dynamic environment where talented people can make a meaningful impact.
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: $126,200 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. As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.
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