Oura is hiring a Senior Manager, Accessories & Charging Product Quality to be a pivotal leader at the intersection of Manufacturing, R&D, and Supply Chain. In this role, you will facilitate the development and ramp of new products, ensuring they are high-quality, manufacturable, and scalable, while championing a premium user experience that meets rigorous standards for health accuracy and craftsmanship.
What You'll Do
- Support New Product Introduction (NPI) through development builds, ramp-up, mass production, and steady state expansion efforts.
- Serve as the bridge between Design, Engineering, and Operations, translating complex technical risks into actionable business decisions.
- Analyze build failure data to identify design and process marginalities, ensuring yield loss is understood from a quality risk perspective.
- Lead build readiness reviews, focusing on quality deliverables such as equipment readiness, process qualification, and post-build quality data analysis.
- Establish and enforce the standard for “premium” quality by defining cosmetic specifications, managing golden/limit samples, and aligning teams on subjective criteria.
- Identify and effectively communicate design and process risks using data-driven approaches across Oura teams and suppliers.
- Analyze data to establish appropriate sub-assembly / system level spec limits and process controls for cosmetic, dimensional, and functional/reliability requirements.
- Validate that CM processes produce units that meet cosmetic, reliability, and functional design intent.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in a Product Quality, Supplier Manufacturing, Manufacturing Quality Engineer, or Process Quality Engineer role.
- 4+ years in leadership and managing teams of engineers.
- Experience in System Integration environments (FATP), bringing together mechanical enclosures, soft goods, and electronics into a final finished product.
- Experience with quality engineering in high volume hand held / wearable and/or consumer products manufacturing with high cosmetic standards.
- Experience qualifying and auditing manufacturing processes including PSA/HAF attach, epoxy dispense/molding/curing, and solder/hotbar/laser weld.
- Experience developing robust IQC / IPQC / OQC controls, including AOI / cosmetics, sampling plans, SOP/MSOP, user-based product testing, OBA, and dimensional control.
- Understanding of quality principles and tools such as GRR, SPC, FA/CA, 8D, FMEA, and DOEs.
- Understanding of manufacturing principles and tools such as DFM, GD&T, and Six Sigma methodologies for variability reduction.
- Self-driven and eager problem solver who thrives in demanding quick-paced environments.
- Highly organized with the ability to clearly and succinctly communicate complex concepts through presentations and written communication.
- Able to set up systems to capture reliable and meaningful data to help drive critical process improvements and enhance product/component design.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 40%.
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Supply Chain team, working alongside design teams and process engineers.
Benefits & Compensation
- 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
- Salary Range for San Francisco: $198,050 - $233,000
Work Mode
This role is hybrid and based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
