Staff AI Data Transformation Architect

Ōura • San Francisco, CA

8h • $169,150 - $233,000 • 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.
At Ōura, we're on a mission to make health a daily practice for everyone. With our award-winning Ōura Ring and app, we've empowered over a million people to improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. Now, we're looking for a distinguished AI leader to turn scattered experimentation into safe, scalable, everyday practice across the entire company.We are seeking a Staff AI Data Transformation Architect to lead as the senior-most individual contributor driving Data AI enablement across our Data team at Ōura, reporting to VP, Data Engineering and Analytics. This is a highly visible, org-defining role that combines two things usually split across separate jobs: the strategic work of building a company-wide AI roadmap and operating model, and the hands-on work of running the operational backbone — access, governance, licensing — that makes that practice safe and scalable.There are no direct reports in this role: strategy, influence, credibility, and hands-on execution are your primary tools. This role is distinguished from Senior by its company-wide scope of influence, the level of ambiguity it resolves, and the expectation that you define the problem as much as solve it.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience scaling AI data solutions, products or technology adoption beyond pilots into sustained, organization-wide practice, with measurable outcomes.
• A track record of building durable operating models, SOPs, and measurement systems that outlast any one project.
• History of influencing and aligning senior leadership on long-horizon technology investments.
• Deep technical fluency in LLMs and implementation patterns, with sound judgment for separating real value from hype.
• Direct, hands-on experience administering at least one enterprise AI productivity tool (e.g., Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise, Glean, Gemini, coding assistants, LLM API gateways), including user/group management and configuration troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated AI fluency: uses LLM assistants and agents in daily work with sound judgment and verification.
• Clear point of view on when to build vs. buy, grounded in real experience rather than generic opinion.
• Experience in enterprise data platforms including lakehouse using AI/LLMs.
• Practical experience with role-based access models and permissions in multi-domain/region zones.
• Comfort partnering with Security, Privacy, and Legal to define and operationalize guardrails for responsible AI use in a regulated or health-sensitive environment.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across R&D and business units without formal authority.
• Proven ability to design, document, and maintain SOPs, playbooks, and training that non-technical users and other admins can follow independently.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to flex between a hands-on troubleshooting conversation and an executive steering committee.

Nice To Haves

• Databricks Certified Administrator or Databricks Certified Data Engineer certification.
• Familiarity with data mesh principles and domain-oriented data ownership models.
• Experience supporting ML workflows — MLflow, Feature Store, or Databricks Model Serving.
• Knowledge of dbt for data transformation and analytics engineering workflows.
• Cloud/AI token FinOps experience — cost allocation tagging, budget alerting, and multi-tier storage optimization.
• Exposure to Databricks Lakehouse Federation or cross-platform query federation patterns.
• Prior experience as an AI Champion or similar transformation role in another function or company.
• Familiarity with scripting or configuration automation (e.g., Python, shell, configuration-as-code) to reduce manual admin work.
• Experience in health tech, consumer health, wearables, or another regulated, high-trust industry.
• Deep expertise designing data architectures for LLM, RAG, and vector-based use cases in production environments.
• Experience with MLOps frameworks, VertexAI, MLflow, and production AI/ML lifecycle management.
• Ability to define data requirements for Agentic AI and interactive self-serve analytical systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the Data AI enablement roadmap across data, product, engineering, science and business functions, prioritizing the transformation opportunities with the highest leverage.
• Build the operating model for repeatable adoption: playbooks, shared tooling, evaluation frameworks, and success metrics that turn isolated pilots into standard practice.
• Establish a shared language and evaluation framework that leaders across the company use to assess AI opportunities consistently.
• Drive build-vs-buy decisions for AI tooling, influencing vendor strategy and technology investment at a company-wide level.
• Own the AI tool estate end-to-end: integration of data and access models within the Databricks platform, multi-agent workflows, token management, and partner with AI Productivity to power the AI ecosystem with a trusted data layer.
• Hold the governance line: partner with AI Governance, Security, Privacy, and Legal to define guardrails for responsible AI use in a health-sensitive environment, with auditable change management.
• Keep AI spend efficient: own observability, productivity best practices and reclamation cycles, and the usage insights that inform renewal, expansion, and build/buy decisions.
• Architect Ōura's Data AI strategy leveraging Databricks and AWS to process terabyte–petabyte scale data with global consistency.
• Lead the design of machine-readable contracts, vector-based data architectures and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns to enable LLM-powered reporting and Agentic AI at production scale, including an enterprise context plane: ontology, semantic layer, knowledge graph, and context layer.
• Partner closely with data analysts and engineers to assess, prioritize, and remediate data readiness (quality, structure, access, documentation) against the AI roadmap's use cases.
• Partner with leadership to drive workflow redesign, working directly with functional leaders to change how their teams operate — not just what tools they have access to.
• Build internal AI fluency through reusable training, a strong practitioner community, and self-service documentation that let teams and other admins operate independently.
• Scale a small number of high-value pilots into standard, company-wide practice rather than leaving them as isolated experiments.
• Act as the primary bridge between executive intent, functional leaders, and enabling functions (Security, Legal, IT, Software).
• Drive alignment across AI productivity, engineering and business units, establishing trust early and earning a seat at the table through credibility.
• Set the operating standard that functional AI Champions and any dedicated AI-tool administrators run to, without owning their day-to-day work directly.
• Represent Data AI enablement in cross-company forums, making adoption and impact metrics visible and discussed at the leadership level.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Ōura 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