Director of Product, Hardware

We are looking for a Director of Product, Hardware to help us deliver groundbreaking hardware products that our customers will love. The Director Product Management 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
• Market and Technology Landscape: Monitor and understand new and novel technologies and products in the consumer and wearables market; distill key insights for the team.
• Storytelling: Craft a unique product story rooted in deep customer insights.
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify and resolve product-related issues throughout the product lifecycle.
• 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.
• Resource planning: Determine what a staffing and resources are needed for your area of ownership
• People Leadership: Grow the team over time based on project needs, manage and mentor team members

REQUIREMENTS 

We would love to consider you for this role 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.
• People management experience

Bonus Qualifications 

• Wearables expertise
• Health sensing experience 
• Track record managing multiple projects simultaneously
• 0 to 1 development experience

This position requires the ability to work from our SF office 2-3 days a week and occasionally travel both domestically and internationally.

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: $226,100 - $266,000

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).