Responsibilities
- Lead and support multiple teams. You manage across Ōura's software design organization, overseeing multiple teams and the designers within them.
- You create the conditions for people to do their best work: clear expectations, strong feedback loops, and a genuine investment in their growth.
- You're a thoughtful people manager and a trusted resource to the designers you support.
- Mentor and develop designers. You invest in the people around you.
- You support designers at all levels through regular 1:1s, career conversations, and honest, actionable feedback.
- You help them see around corners, develop their craft, and grow their confidence — not just their output.
- Sharpen work through active participation. You're in the room for the work that matters.
- You lead brainstorms, working sessions, and design critiques that meaningfully improve what the team produces.
- Your presence raises the quality bar, not by taking over, but by asking better questions, modeling stronger thinking, and pointing toward better solutions.
- Partner with design leads and product leadership. You build strong working relationships with existing design leads, reinforcing their authority while adding your own experience and perspective.
- You partner with product leadership to align on roadmap priorities, advocate for user needs, and ensure design has a seat at the table when decisions are made.
- Demonstrate excellence in UX thinking and craft. You have deep fluency across the UX discipline: research, interaction design, information architecture, systems thinking and you make that expertise visible.
- Whether through the work you contribute or the feedback you give, you help define what great UX looks like at Ōura.
- Serve as DRI on features as needed. You're not just a manager, you're a practitioner.
- You take on direct responsibility for features when the work calls for it, contributing from concept through polish.
- Expect a roughly 60/40 or 70/30 split between managing and leading versus hands-on UX work, depending on the needs of the team.
- Build and steward the team. You play an active role in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding designers.
- You help define what the team needs, and you bring the same rigor to hiring decisions that you bring to design decisions.
- Over time, you help shape the culture, norms, and practices that make the team exceptional.
Benefits
- 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
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Structure: You manage across Ōura's software design organization, overseeing multiple teams and the designers within them.
Additional Information
- 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 Region based on your US location.
- We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).
