Director, Strategy & Operations

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.

As our Director of Strategy Operations, you’ll partner closely with business leadership to translate company priorities into clear operating plans, decision frameworks, and executional rigor across various functions. You’ll own our planning cycles end-to-end, from setting the annual direction to driving quarterly OKR reviews that ensure we stay focused on what matters most. You will act as the chief architect and executor of the strategy and operating models—bringing structure, clarity, and momentum to a rapidly scaling organization.

What you will do:

Strategic Analysis Decision Support

Partner with the executive team to translate company strategy into clear annual direction, enterprise priorities, and execution frameworks

Lead the annual planning process — setting timelines, aligning cross-functional leaders, and ensuring resources are allocated to the highest-impact opportunities

Continuously evolve and operationalize strategy across product, GTM, finance, and operations as conditions change

Build and maintain a real-time enterprise portfolio view of major initiatives, resourcing, interdependencies, and performance against plan

Maintain a strong, real-time understanding of business performance, competitive dynamics, and emerging risks — bringing clarity and perspective to leadership when it matters most

Operating Cadence Governance

Design and run the company's operating rhythms, including annual planning cycles, quarterly OKR reviews, business performance checkpoints, and executive forums

Establish clear decision-making frameworks, accountability mechanisms, and follow-through processes that enable focus and durable growth

Lead quarterly business reviews to assess performance, recalibrate strategy, and reallocate resources based on results

Build AI-native planning infrastructure that powers Oura’s planning model and portfolio management

Cross-Functional Alignment Organizational Scale

Proactively identify when the business is overextended, underinvested, or misaligned — and mobilize the right people to resolve it

Design and implement the planning infrastructure (frameworks, tooling, operating rituals) that scales with the company and enables execution with speed and clarity

Serve as the primary integrator across Product, GTM, Finance, and Operations — clarifying ownership, surfacing trade-offs, and resolving misalignment quickly

Lead and develop a high-performing planning and operations team — setting clear expectations, providing mentorship, and building a culture of rigor and speed

Requirements

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

Have 10–12+ years of experience in strategy consulting (MBB preferred) and or corporate strategy with direct ownership of enterprise planning processes

Bring executive presence, strong communication skills, and the ability to drive clarity and alignment without positional authority

Have experience building operating models and processes in high-growth environments and demonstrate strong strategic orientation and exceptional operational rigor

Have the proven ability to design and run operating systems from scratch — not just maintain inherited ones

Operate with AI-fluency — you can build scalable planning tools, accelerate analysis, and raise the output quality of the teams around you using AI

Have worked with C-suite executives on portfolio management and resource allocation

Experience in consumer tech, subscription businesses, or digital health (a plus)

Location

We have a strong preference for candidates based in San Francisco or the Bay Area.

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…