[Hiring] Senior Director of Engineering @ŌURA

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead Women’s Health engineering at Oura. Women’s Health is one of Oura’s most important opportunities to help members understand, navigate, and act on their health across meaningful life stages and conditions. In this role, you will lead the engineering organization that turns that ambition into trusted, high-impact consumer experiences. This is a role for a product-minded engineering leader who can do two things at once: ship key initiatives that make meaningful progress toward member outcomes, and transform how the organization builds software through AI-native and agentic workflows.

You will partner closely with Product, Design, Science, Data Science, Clinical, Regulatory, and other functions. You will shape the engineering strategy, organization, operating model, and leadership system needed to build excellent products at scale.

What You Will Do:

• Lead and develop the Women’s Health software engineering organization through engineering managers, directors, and key technical leaders.
• Partner with Product, Design, Science, Data Science, Clinical, and Regulatory leaders to turn member needs and product strategy into a coherent, high-quality roadmap.
• Ship the highest-priority initiatives and ensure they make meaningful progress toward member outcomes—not only delivery milestones.
• Build an organization that consistently ships excellent consumer software with measurable impact for members, by creating clarity across team ownership, architecture, dependencies, decision-making, and priorities.
• Lead organizational transformation while maintaining delivery momentum and team health.
• Set and consistently reinforce a high performance bar across Engineering and the broader Women’s Health organization, including outcomes, technical quality, execution, collaboration, and leadership.
• Define and implement an AI-native approach to product development and software engineering, including practical use of AI and agents, quality guardrails, and measurable outcomes.
• Build a strong leadership bench through hiring, coaching, feedback, talent development, and thoughtful succession planning.
• Represent engineering in senior cross-functional planning and help Oura make sound trade-offs between speed, quality, trust, and long-term leverage.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience in building software products, ideally 5+ years in leadership.
• A track record of shipping consumer software that created meaningful, measurable impact for users or members.
• Experience building and scaling a strong product-building organization, including hiring and developing leaders and managing through managers.
• Experience leading organizational transformation: changing structures, operating models, culture, or ways of working while maintaining delivery.
• A clear and practical perspective on how to build a winning software organization in the age of AI and agents.
• Excellent people leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, talent development, and inclusive leadership.
• Strong technical and product judgment, with enough depth to make sound trade-offs across architecture, platform, data, quality, reliability, privacy, and speed.
• Genuine interest in Women’s Health and the motivation to learn the domain deeply and serve members with empathy.

Requirements

• Experience in Women’s Health, reproductive health, menopause, postpartum, fertility, or adjacent health domains.
• Experience with regulated, clinically adjacent, or high-trust consumer products.
• Experience with wearables, connected devices, mobile products, or longitudinal health data.
• Experience leading AI-enabled product development or AI-native engineering transformation.
• Experience leading distributed, international, or cross-time-zone organizations.

Benefits

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

• 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
• Ōura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location.
• Region 1 $261,800 - $308,000
• Region 2 $236,300 - $278,000
• Region 3 $212,500 - $250,000