Staff 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. We are particularly interested in candidates located on the West Coast to support regular collaboration with our San Francisco and San Diego team (1+ trip per month). The role will also include global travel to contract manufacturers and other Oura offices as needed.

What you will do:

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

Oversee engineering change management

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

We would love to have you on our team if you have:

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 ID Lock, 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 SmartSheet

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

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 $198,050 - $233,000

Region 2 $180,200 - $212,000

Region 3 $16…