Director, Mechanical Sourcing

ŌURA • San Francisco, CA

14h • $226,100 - $266,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

ŌURA is seeking a Director, Global Mechanical Sourcing to lead the strategy, execution, and development of its global mechanical sourcing organization. The Director will own mechanical sourcing across current and future hardware programs, aligning teams and supplier partnerships across the US, Finland, Asia, and other regions. The function is established, with existing leaders and processes; the Director will build on what is working, strengthen the global operating model, align priorities across the product portfolio, improve decision-making, and be accountable for results as the company grows.

The role leads through existing regional leaders and teams, develops sourcing talent, and strengthens analytical standards and commercial discipline. It partners closely with Product, Industrial Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Program Management, Finance, Legal, Logistics, and senior leadership. The Director is expected to set direction while remaining close to operational details, contribute directly when needed, make decisions amid incomplete information, and model integrity, collaboration, accountability, and follow-through.

This is a hybrid position based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with regular office attendance (two to three days per week) and collaboration with colleagues in Finland and other global locations. Domestic and international travel is approximately 25–30% as needed.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of experience in strategic sourcing, supply chain, operations, manufacturing, or a related field, with significant experience in mechanical components and assemblies.
• Experience leading global sourcing teams across multiple regions, managing through leaders, developing direct reports, and building accountable teams.
• Deep experience with mechanical manufacturing processes such as CNC, injection molding, stamping, MIM, die casting, surface finishing, adhesives, die cuts, softgoods, or related technologies.
• Experience in consumer electronics, wearables, medical devices, or another product business with complex, miniaturized hardware.
• Experience owning category strategy, supplier architecture, and day-to-day supplier execution.
• Strong analytical skills, including should-cost modeling, cost-driver analysis, supplier benchmarking, financial analysis, scenario planning, and total-cost-of-ownership evaluation.
• Proven record leading complex negotiations with supplier and contract manufacturing executives across cost, tooling, capacity, quality, liability, and long-term commercial terms.
• Experience supporting multiple concurrent NPI programs through development, ramp, mass production, and sustaining, including personally engaging in critical operating issues when needed.
• Strong understanding of DFM, supplier qualification, manufacturing readiness, quality systems, supply continuity planning, and operational and commercial escalation paths for NPI programs.
• Executive presence and communication skills, including the ability to turn complex data and tradeoffs into clear recommendations and decisions.
• Judgment to balance cost, quality, schedule, resilience, innovation, customer experience, and business value.
• Ability to operate across cultures, time zones, and functions in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Direct, accountable, collaborative leadership style and high standards for oneself and the people one leads.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally approximately 25–30% as needed.
• Must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to come into the office regularly.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading mechanical sourcing for wearables, smart devices, or other high-volume consumer hardware.
• Experience working across European and US-based engineering, sourcing, and supplier organizations.
• Experience with packaging, finishing, coatings, adhesives, softgoods, or other adjacent mechanical categories.
• Experience with supplier development, value engineering, design-to-cost, or manufacturing process innovation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field; a master’s degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-year global mechanical sourcing strategy aligned with the product roadmap, margin goals, quality standards, launch plans, resilience requirements, and manufacturing footprint.
• Set supplier architecture across regions, technologies, and production stages, including preferred suppliers, second sources, geographic diversification, and capability-development priorities.
• Create or refine category strategies for mechanical commodities and related categories, including CNC, injection molding, stamping, MIM, die casting, surface finishing, coatings, structural components, die cuts, softgoods, and applicable packaging.
• Translate market conditions, technology developments, supplier capacity, geopolitical exposure, and cost drivers into recommendations for senior leadership.
• Align regional priorities and establish clear outcomes and decision rights across regions, commodities, programs, and supplier relationships.
• Develop managers and individual contributors through coaching, feedback, career paths, succession planning, and opportunities for expanded scope; assess team capability and capacity and hire or structure the team as needed.
• Establish a common operating cadence for strategy reviews, supplier performance, risk escalation, negotiation planning, and executive updates.
• Establish analytical foundations for cost and value decisions, including should-cost models, supplier benchmarks, cost-driver analysis, total-cost-of-ownership analysis, and scenario planning.
• Provide visibility into mechanical cost trajectories and connect sourcing actions with gross margin and business plans in partnership with Finance and Product Cost teams.
• Evaluate supplier proposals and manufacturing alternatives using factors such as volume assumptions, tooling and NRE, yield, labor, materials, freight, payment terms, and other total-cost drivers.
• Standardize scorecards and review mechanisms covering supplier performance, cost, quality, delivery, capacity, responsiveness, and risk.
• Own supplier selection and portfolio decisions for mechanical components and assemblies across NPI and sustaining programs.
• Develop executive-level relationships with strategic suppliers and contract manufacturing partners across North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Lead supplier capability assessments, onboarding, qualification, business reviews, corrective-action plans, and long-term partner development.
• Set supplier expectations for performance, capacity planning, quality, responsiveness, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Build supply continuity plans addressing concentration, geographic risk, capacity constraints, financial health, tooling ownership, materials, and contingency options.
• Partner with Engineering and suppliers on DFM, design-for-cost, manufacturing capability, process innovation, and tradeoffs that improve product performance and production readiness.
• Lead or oversee negotiations covering unit cost, tooling and NRE, capacity commitments, lead times, payment terms, minimum order quantities, price-adjustment mechanisms, warranty, E&O and liability, intellectual property, and other commercial terms.
• Prepare negotiation strategies grounded in should-cost analysis, supplier economics, market alternatives, business priorities, and Oura’s negotiating position and constraints.
• Represent Oura with supplier executives, align internal stakeholders before critical commercial discussions, and secure outcomes supporting cost competitiveness, supply assurance, investment, flexibility, quality, and launch execution.
• Ensure supplier agreements and commitments are documented, governed, and translated into measurable supplier actions.
• Be accountable for operational and commercial outcomes across the mechanical portfolio, including NPI, and ensure escalations are resolved through the appropriate leaders.
• Monitor critical supplier, build-readiness, capacity, quality, cost, and commercial issues; engage directly when impact or urgency requires it and otherwise drive decisions to closure through accountable leaders.
• Integrate sourcing strategy into design reviews, supplier selection, development builds, manufacturing readiness, capacity planning, and launch decisions.
• Work with Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, Finance, and Legal to resolve cross-functional issues and make tradeoffs that protect cost, quality, schedule, resilience, customer experience, and brand.
• Improve sourcing processes, templates, systems, and governance to support speed, decision quality, and control.
• Provide concise, fact-based senior-leadership updates on strategy, cost, risk, supplier performance, decisions, and support needed.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus mental health resources.
• An Ōura Ring and employee discounts for friends and family.
• 20 days of paid time off, 13 paid holidays, and 8 days of flexible wellness time off.
• Paid sick leave and parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed