System Engineering Program Manager

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’re looking for an Engineering Program Manager to join our global Hardware PMO team. This role will be located in or near San Francisco, California and requires in‑office collaboration with the San Francisco team (few times per week), in‑office collaboration with the San Diego team (1 or more times per month) as well as other global travel to contract manufacturers or other offices as needed.

• Coordinate and lead the work of hardware engineering teams: electrical, mechanical, firmware, system test and hardware compliance.
• Lead the engineering team to identify team level milestones and deliverables (against Program level targets) identifying the critical path and dependencies within engineering teams and between engineering and other teams such as Product, Industrial Design, Science, Software and Supply Chain.
• Scope work and inform program‑level milestones including launch targets.
• Interface with hardware engineering leadership both to provide program reporting and receive strategic guidance.
• Collaborate effectively with other PMO colleagues and program leaders across the company.
• Proactively address issues and obstacles that may impact program timelines. Unblock the engineering team, escalating as necessary. Identify how to accelerate when needed.
• Lead NPI build activities. Ensure product maturity and launch readiness throughout Prototype, EVT, DVT, PVT builds and validation.
• Drive third parties to deliver against Statements of Work, when applicable for the program.
• Contribute to BOM creation and technical specifications.
• Drive engineering risk analysis and mitigation planning.
• Plan program resourcing together with Hardware team leads.
• Be an advocate for program excellence, keeping the team focused on what is necessary to deliver on time and in scope.
• Address conflict head on, actively working to overcome all adversity.
• Foster a collaborative and productive working environment with open communication to all stakeholders.
• Lead improvement projects and contributes to refining the existing product development processes.
• Mentor other team members.

• 10+ years of experience with the entire end‑to‑end product development process including Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Firmware, System Test, Manufacturing and Supply Chain.
• Experience working on complex products with new technology and/or challenging technology integration.
• Knowledge of standard workflows and dependencies within single engineering disciplines and between engineering disciplines (examples: reaching , board design and release, mechanical design and tooling start).
• Previous experience taking a complex product through NPI phases to scaled mass production including experience leading factory builds (SMT and FATP).
• Experience working in a phase gate development model and developing entry and exit criteria and defining appropriate maturity.
• Experience structuring and executing DOEs.
• Skills using project management tools such as Jira, Confluence and Smart Sheet.
• Knowledge of project management best practices (PMP not required) and ability to develop and implement new processes and workflows.
• Knowledge of PLM systems such as Team Center or Arena.
• A desire to learn new things and accept challenges.
• Travel up to 25‑30% time.

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.

• Competitive salary and equity packages.
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