Product Director, Hardware (San Diego or West Coast) - Oura

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. By providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we've helped over one million people understand and improve their health.

For us, 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 work to promote work-life balance and ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.

We are now looking for a Product Director, Hardware Product to help us discover, develop, and deliver groundbreaking hardware products that our customers will love. At Oura, we know that nobody can make a great product alone. The role will be a driving force in delivering an unmatched product experience in close collaboration with a global, cross-functional team of world-class experts.

This is a hybrid role is based in San Diego. If based elsewhere on West Coast, some travel will be required.

What You will do:

• Take ownership of a hardware product from discovery to delivery to maximize company impact and customer satisfaction. 
• Craft a unique product story rooted in deep customer insights, including key benefits, requirements, and North Star goals to solve big customer pain points. 
• Collaborate closely with a diverse, talented team of designers, engineers, scientists, marketers, and analysts to solve both minor and major challenges. 
• Manage product requirements (PRD) at every stage, regularly assess progress, and facilitate timely decision-making for important trade-offs and risks.  
• Continuously improve our product-making processes by clarifying responsibility and requirements and simplifying solutions for increased efficiency. 
• Work closely with product marketing to craft a compelling narrative that transforms unique technical capabilities into simple, clear and compelling stories
• Contribute your expertise and insights to strategic scenarios and portfolio decisions, to exponentially grow our category leadership and extend to new customers.
• Educate the broader organization on creative, customer-centric, product making to enhance everyone’s capabilities and effectiveness in pursuit of our vision.  

Requirements

We would love to have You on our team, if You have:

• 12+ years of experience in product management with a proven track record of delivering products with high business impact and outstanding customer satisfaction.
• Experience within HW product management is desirable
• Mastered the practice of taking new products (not features) from the first idea all the way to commercial launch with minimal supervision.
• Passion for using technology to help people lead healthier lives and a personal desire to use products to develop a strong intuition and conviction. 
• Ability to combine consumer, technology, and business insights into a simple narrative (with data to back it up) that excites both internal and external audiences.
• Ability to quickly analyze, find the root cause and develop creative solutions to challenging problems under time pressure and with extreme constraints. 
• Unmatch ability to get things done, move mountains, roll up your sleeves and unblock tricky situations with empathy, intelligence and drive. 
• Excellent written and presentation skills that creates clear thinking, high-quality discussions, and effective decision-making among large groups.
• Unrelenting optimism that drives people and projects forward mixed with genuine kindness and thoughtfulness and a belief that the glass is always at least half full. 
• A natural tendency to do something as well as it can possibly be done, try new things and learn quickly from failed experiments.

Benefits

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Oura Ring of your own + employee discounts for friends & family
• Fertility benefits through Carrot Pro
• Flexible working hours and remote working arrangements
• $750 Learning & Development credit
• $200 monthly wellness credit
• 20 days of PTO + 13 paid holidays + 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• 5 days paid sick leave, 5 days bereavement leave, 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers

Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates’ pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Region 1 $187,440 - $203,000
• Region 2 $178, 068 - $192,350
• Region 3 $168,696 - $181,700

To all recruitment agencies: Oura does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Oura employees, or any other organization's location. Oura is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.