Senior Manager, UX Design

Ōura • San Francisco, CA

6h • 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. Ōura is looking for a Senior Manager, UX Design to help lead and shape the next chapter of the Ōura App experience. This is a senior people-management role for someone who leads multiple teams, lifts the quality of UX thinking and craft across the organization, and partners closely with product and design leadership to ensure the work adds up to something coherent, considered, and excellent. As a senior manager, you operate at the intersection of leadership and practice. You manage with clarity and care, and you stay close enough to the work to model what great looks like; rolling up your sleeves as a design practitioner when it matters most. This is a hybrid-remote role, with the expectation to work from our San Francisco offices at least half-time

Requirements

• 8+ years of design experience, with at least 4 years operating as a high-influence individual contributor at a staff or principal level; setting direction and raising quality without relying on formal authority.
• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional UI craft alongside systems thinking: cohesive experiences at scale, not just individual screens for world class companies.
• The ability to hold and defend a strong aesthetic point of view while remaining genuinely open to input and collaboration.
• Deep fluency with mobile design: interaction patterns, platform conventions, motion, and the nuanced decisions that make an app feel alive or flat.
• Strong curatorial instincts across imagery, motion, and visual storytelling, with an understanding of how these elements shape trust, emotion, and brand in a health and fitness context.
• Excellent communication skills: you can make the invisible visible, explaining why a decision is right, what's missing in a design, or where a system is breaking down.
• A pattern of proactive cross-functional collaboration: you build relationships and seek out connections rather than waiting for them to come to you. You take an entrepreneurial approach.
• Familiarity with how AI and agentic tools are changing design practice, with curiosity and energy to explore what's next.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on health, wellness, or other trust-sensitive products where emotional tone, clarity, and credibility must be carefully calibrated.
• A history of making the teams around you better through mentorship, cultural contribution, and sustained investment in design quality.
• Familiarity with design systems and how to use them as a lever for coherence and velocity across a growing product.
• Experience working with user research: partnering with researchers, synthesizing insights, and using data to pressure-test design decisions.
• Familiarity with how AI and agentic tools are changing design practice, with curiosity about what's next.
• Experience navigating the intersection of product design and brand, and knowing when and how to hold the line on quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support multiple teams. You manage across Ōura's software design organization, overseeing multiple teams and the designers within them. You create the conditions for people to do their best work: clear expectations, strong feedback loops, and a genuine investment in their growth. You're a thoughtful people manager and a trusted resource to the designers you support.
• Mentor and develop designers. You invest in the people around you. You support designers at all levels through regular 1:1s, career conversations, and honest, actionable feedback. You help them see around corners, develop their craft, and grow their confidence — not just their output.
• Sharpen work through active participation. You're in the room for the work that matters. You lead brainstorms, working sessions, and design critiques that meaningfully improve what the team produces. Your presence raises the quality bar, not by taking over, but by asking better questions, modeling stronger thinking, and pointing toward better solutions.
• Partner with design leads and product leadership. You build strong working relationships with existing design leads, reinforcing their authority while adding your own experience and perspective. You partner with product leadership to align on roadmap priorities, advocate for user needs, and ensure design has a seat at the table when decisions are made.
• Demonstrate excellence in UX thinking and craft. You have deep fluency across the UX discipline: research, interaction design, information architecture, systems thinking and you make that expertise visible. Whether through the work you contribute or the feedback you give, you help define what great UX looks like at Ōura.
• Serve as DRI on features as needed. You're not just a manager, you're a practitioner. You take on direct responsibility for features when the work calls for it, contributing from concept through polish. Expect a roughly 60/40 or 70/30 split between managing and leading versus hands-on UX work, depending on the needs of the team.
• Build and steward the team. You play an active role in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding designers. You help define what the team needs, and you bring the same rigor to hiring decisions that you bring to design decisions. Over time, you help shape the culture, norms, and practices that make the team exceptional.

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