Director, EMS Sourcing

Ōura • San Francisco, CA

18h • Hybrid

About The Position

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 looking for a Director of EMS Sourcing to own the end-to-end contract manufacturing strategy for Oura's global hardware portfolio. This is a senior leadership role that sits at the intersection of commercial strategy, executive partnership, and organizational leadership — responsible for how Oura builds, scales, and governs its CM relationships as we grow through an inflection point in our company's trajectory.
Oura's hardware roadmap is expanding in scope and complexity and supply chain decisions we make now will shape our cost structure and resilience for years to come. The Director of EMS Sourcing will bring the senior domain expertise, executive relationships, and strategic authority needed to navigate that environment — and to build a CM architecture that enables Oura's next phase of growth.
This role will partner closely with Hardware Engineering, Product, Finance, Legal, and Operations leadership, and will serve as the senior commercial owner and executive point of contact across Oura's contract manufacturing base.
Own CM Architecture Strategy: Define and drive Oura's multi-year contract manufacturing strategy — including partner selection, program allocation, dual-source posture, geographic diversification, and concentration risk mitigation — aligned to the company's hardware roadmap and business trajectory.
Lead Executive CM Relationships: Serve as Oura's most senior commercial relationship owner with contract manufacturing partners. Build and maintain peer-level relationships with CM executive leadership — including C-suite and VP-level counterparts — to secure prioritized capacity, favorable commercial terms, and co-investment in tooling and capability development.
Drive Commercial Outcomes at Scale: Lead commercial negotiations including MVA structures, capacity commitments, scrap liability, NRE, tooling investment, and long-term pricing. Ensure Oura's contractual posture reflects the risk and leverage appropriate for a company on our trajectory.
Translate Roadmap Complexity into Manufacturing Strategy: Work closely with Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management to translate NPI concurrency, product evolution, and demand uncertainty into CM capacity plans, contractual structures, and partner capability requirements.
Build and Lead a High-Performing Team: Manage and develop the EMS sourcing function, establishing clear ownership, elevating capability across the team, and creating the organizational structure needed to support Oura's scaling demands.
Location: San Francisco, CA
This is a hybrid role requiring 2-3 days a week in our San Francisco office.
What you will do:
Own and continuously evolve Oura's CM partner strategy — including which partners are right for which programs, how we manage the portfolio over time, and where we need to develop new or alternative manufacturing relationships.
Lead strategic business reviews with CM executive leadership, driving alignment on capacity, quality, cost, and roadmap preparedness across current and future programs.
Develop and maintain a current, forward-looking view of the EMS industry landscape — including partner financial health, capital investment posture, government incentive environments, geographic risk, and emerging capability development.
Partner with Finance and Legal to structure CM contracts that reflect Oura's risk tolerance, commercial leverage, and long-term growth expectations — including resolution of complex commercial disputes.
Serve as the senior escalation point for manufacturing issues that carry strategic or financial risk, driving resolution across internal and external stakeholders with appropriate urgency and authority.
Represent EMS strategy in executive and cross-functional forums, providing leadership with a clear-eyed view of manufacturing risk, cost trajectory, and partner capability relative to our roadmap.
Proactively monitor geopolitical, macroeconomic, and industry developments that could affect CM strategy — translating those signals into contingency plans and strategic adjustments.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive experience in EMS, contract manufacturing sourcing, or supply chain strategy, with significant time spent in senior commercial roles with direct CM executive accountability
• Deep, current knowledge of the global EMS industry — including major and mid-tier contract manufacturers, geographic manufacturing landscapes, and industry cost and capability dynamics
• Demonstrated track record of building and maintaining executive-level relationships with CM partners across multiple companies and programs
• Proven ability to lead complex, high-stakes commercial negotiations including multi-year supply agreements, capacity commitments, MVA structures, and dispute resolution
• Experience leading and developing sourcing or supply chain teams, with the organizational instincts to build structure, develop talent, and scale a function
• Background in high-volume consumer electronics hardware, ideally including wearables, mobile, or similarly complex product categories
• Strong cross-functional leadership presence — able to drive decisions and alignment with Engineering, Finance, Product, and Legal stakeholders at a senior level
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time, both domestically and internationally

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously evolve Oura's CM partner strategy — including which partners are right for which programs, how we manage the portfolio over time, and where we need to develop new or alternative manufacturing relationships.
• Lead strategic business reviews with CM executive leadership, driving alignment on capacity, quality, cost, and roadmap preparedness across current and future programs.
• Develop and maintain a current, forward-looking view of the EMS industry landscape — including partner financial health, capital investment posture, government incentive environments, geographic risk, and emerging capability development.
• Partner with Finance and Legal to structure CM contracts that reflect Oura's risk tolerance, commercial leverage, and long-term growth expectations — including resolution of complex commercial disputes.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for manufacturing issues that carry strategic or financial risk, driving resolution across internal and external stakeholders with appropriate urgency and authority.
• Represent EMS strategy in executive and cross-functional forums, providing leadership with a clear-eyed view of manufacturing risk, cost trajectory, and partner capability relative to our roadmap.
• Proactively monitor geopolitical, macroeconomic, and industry developments that could affect CM strategy — translating those signals into contingency plans and strategic adjustments.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees