Staff Product Manager, Hardware

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. 

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a Staff Product Manager, Hardware to help us deliver groundbreaking hardware products that our customers will love. The Staff Product Manager will be a driving force in delivering an unmatched product experience in close collaboration with a global, cross-functional team. 

What you will do:

• Product Ownership: take ownership of a hardware product to maximize company impact and customer satisfaction by solving customer and business pain points
• Storytelling: Craft a unique product story rooted in deep customer insights.
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify and resolve product-related issues throughout the product lifecycle.
• Market & User Research: conduct market research, competitive analysis, and qualitative and quantitative user studies
• Requirements Management: Write and manage product requirements (PRD), regularly assess progress, and facilitate timely decision making
• Product Development Lifecycle: Support the entire product lifecycle from concept to end of life, working closely with engineering and design teams to ensure timely and high-quality execution
• Prioritization: prioritize features, options, and product improvements - balancing cost, timeline, and experience tradeoffs
• Communication: Effectively communicate priorities, plans, progress, and challenges to stakeholders across the organization. Maintain clear, organized communication.
• Collaboration: Work closely with a diverse, talented team of designers, engineers, scientists, marketers, and analysts to create incredible products. Partner closely with software product management counterparts. 
• Roadmap support: contribute to the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Oura’s hardware product portfolio, including next-generation products.
• Go-to-market: Support go-to-market readiness by developing compelling positioning and pricing and overseeing overall product readiness.

This is a hybrid US role based in San Diego or San Francisco. Willingness and ability to work 1-3 days a week in office. 

REQUIREMENTS 

We would love to have you on our team if you have: 

• 10+ years of experience in product management with a proven track record of delivering products with high business impact and outstanding customer satisfaction.
• A deep understanding of hardware development, including design phases, manufacturing, materials, compliance, and quality.
• Experience with connected electronics including connectivity, compute, battery, firmware, and software features.
• Successfully taken new and/or existing hardware products from concept to commercial launch with minimal supervision.
• 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 and come up with creative solutions to challenging problems under pressure and with extreme constraints.
• Unmatched 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 create 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.
• A natural tendency to do something as well as it can possibly be done, try new things, and learn quickly from failed experiments.

Bonus Qualifications 

• Wearables expertise
• Health sensing experience 
• Track record managing multiple projects simultaneously

BENEFITS

At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.

What we offer:

• 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

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: $198,050 - $233,000
• Region 2 $180,200 - $212,000
• Region 3 $169,150- $199,000

A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Arkansas (AR), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), Oklahoma (OK), Rhode Island (RI), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).

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.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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