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 have 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.

• 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 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.

• 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.

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
• 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.

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