Senior Director, Product Design Engineering
Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.
We are seeking a curious and experienced Director of Product Design Engineering to lead our PD team in creating the next generation of our groundbreaking wearable devices. Reporting directly to the VP of Hardware Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in driving innovation and excellence across our product portfolio.
What You'll Do:
Executive Technical Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of product design engineering leaders and individual contributors.
- Set clear technical direction and engineering standards across multiple product programs.
Product & Design Strategy
- Partner closely with Product Management, Industrial Design, and Hardware Engineering leadership to define and execute long-term product design strategy aligned with business objectives.
- Influence roadmap decisions through deep understanding of user needs, system tradeoffs, and manufacturing realities.
End-to-End Ownership
- Own the mechanical and product design lifecycle from early concept exploration through detailed design, validation, and mass production.
- Ensure disciplined execution across multiple concurrent development efforts.
User-Centered Design Excellence
- Champion user comfort, ergonomics, durability, and premium product experience in close collaboration with Industrial Design and UX partners.
Manufacturing & Scale
- Drive Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) best practices to optimize yield, quality, cost, and scalability.
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain teams to ensure successful production ramps.
Technical Depth & Judgment
- Provide deep expertise in materials, mechanics of materials, tolerance analysis, and system-level integration.
- Guide critical tradeoff decisions across performance, reliability, cost, and schedule.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Work seamlessly across Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Firmware, Software, Reliability, Quality, and Operations teams to ensure cohesive system-level outcomes.
Risk & Quality Management
- Proactively identify design, reliability, and manufacturing risks and ensure mitigation plans are executed early and rigorously.
External Partnerships
- Engage and manage external design firms, suppliers, and manufacturing partners as needed.
This is a US hybrid role, candidates must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Requirements
We would love to consider you for this opportunity if you have:
- Senior Technical Leadership Experience: Proven experience leading mechanical design engineering organizations, including managers-of-managers.
- Drive: Demonstrated ability and expertise driving new product development programs, and new technology development
- Product Design Expertise: 12+ years of experience in consumer product design engineering, with significant experience shipping high-volume, high-quality products. Wearables or small form-factor electronics experience are strongly preferred.
- Materials & Mechanical Depth: Deep foundation in mechanics of materials, structural design, and material selection across metals, polymers, ceramics, and glass.
- Manufacturing Acumen: Strong command of DFM/DFA principles and experience scaling products into mass production. Experience working with and leading global manufacturing partners.
- CAD Expertise: Advanced proficiency with Siemens NX
- Executive Communication: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and risks to executive and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strategic Mindset: Strong systems thinker with sound judgment, a bias for action, and a results-oriented approach.
Benefits
At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
- Paid sick leave and parental leave
Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
- Region 1 (SF) : $262,000 - $325,000
- Region 2 (SD): $236,000 - $278,000
A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.
Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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