Staff System Engineering Program Manager
Posted on January 22, 2026 (about 2 hours ago)
Staff System Engineering Program Manager
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 the Oura Ring and its connected app.
We’re looking for an Engineering Program Manager to join our global Hardware PMO team. This role is located in or near San Francisco, California and requires in-office collaboration with the San Francisco team (a few times per week), in-office collaboration with the San Diego team (once or more per month), and other global travel to contract manufacturers or offices as needed.
What you will do:
- Coordinate and lead the work of hardware engineering teams: electrical, mechanical, firmware, system test and hardware compliance.
- Lead the engineering team to identify team-level milestones and deliverables against program-level targets, identifying critical paths and dependencies within engineering and between teams such as Product, Industrial Design, Science, Software and Supply Chain.
- Scope work and inform program-level milestones including launch targets.
- Interface with hardware engineering leadership to provide program reporting and receive strategic guidance.
- Collaborate with PMO colleagues and program leaders across the company.
- Proactively address issues and obstacles that may impact program timelines; unblock the engineering team and escalate as necessary; identify acceleration opportunities.
- Lead NPI build activities and ensure product maturity and launch readiness through Prototype, EVT, DVT, PVT builds and validation.
- Drive third parties to deliver against Statements of Work when applicable.
- Contribute to BOM creation and technical specifications.
- Drive engineering risk analysis and mitigation planning.
- Plan program resourcing with Hardware team leads and oversee engineering change management.
- Advocate for program excellence, keep the team focused on delivering on time and in scope, address conflict, and foster a collaborative and productive working environment.
- Lead improvement projects, refine product development processes, and mentor other team members.
We would love to have you on our team if you have:
- 10+ years of experience with the entire end-to-end product development process including electrical, mechanical, firmware, system test, manufacturing and supply chain.
- Experience working on complex products with new technology and challenging technology integration.
- Knowledge of standard workflows and dependencies within and between engineering disciplines (examples: reaching ID Lock, board design and release, mechanical design and tooling start).
- Experience taking a complex product through NPI phases to scaled mass production, including leading factory builds (SMT and FATP).
- Experience in a phase gate development model, developing entry and exit criteria and defining appropriate maturity.
- Experience structuring and executing DOEs.
- Familiarity with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence and Smartsheet, and knowledge of PM best practices (PMP not required).
- Knowledge of PLM systems such as Teamcenter or Arena.
- A desire to learn new things and accept challenges.
- Willingness to travel up to approximately 25–30% of the time.
Benefits
Oura offers competitive salary and equity packages, health, dental and vision insurance, mental health resources, an Oura Ring for employees, employee discounts for friends and family, paid time off, paid holidays, flexible wellness time off, paid sick leave and parental leave.
Oura takes a market-based approach to pay and has US location tiers. Example ranges listed on the posting:
- Region 1: $198,050 - $233,000
- Region 2: $180,200 - $212,000
- Region 3: $169,150 - $199,000
How to apply
Apply via the Oura careers page or the job posting on Greenhouse by clicking the "Apply" button on the listing: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oura/jobs/4051503009
Application process
The online application requests standard candidate information and supports resume/CV and cover letter uploads (accepted file types include pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf). You may be asked to provide contact details, work authorization information, and responses to a few screening questions. Oura will communicate official offers through DocuSign after a verbal offer. Be cautious of scams and do not share sensitive personal or payment information outside official channels.