Senior Director, Product Design Engineering

Ōura • San Francisco, CA

3d • 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 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Champion user comfort, ergonomics, durability, and premium product experience in close collaboration with Industrial Design and UX partners.
• 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.
• Provide deep expertise in materials, mechanics of materials, tolerance analysis, and system-level integration.
• Guide critical tradeoff decisions across performance, reliability, cost, and schedule.
• Work seamlessly across Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Firmware, Software, Reliability, Quality, and Operations teams to ensure cohesive system-level outcomes.
• Proactively identify design, reliability, and manufacturing risks and ensure mitigation plans are executed early and rigorously.
• Engage and manage external design firms, suppliers, and manufacturing partners as needed.

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: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees