Director, Core Manufacturing Technology

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. The Director of Core Manufacturing Technology is the executive architect of the proprietary processes that define Oura’s hardware . This role leads a global team of experts in SMT, Molding, Coatings as examples and also new technology scouting. Your mission is to move Oura from "Project-specific" engineering to a "Core Technology" model, where common process modules are developed, perfected, and then deployed across all product lines to ensure world-class yield, reliability, and scale. This role works closely with Oura HW Core Technology development teams and is in full sync with future technology plans and requirements. Also collaboration with own engineering teams is essential to create seamless continuation from technology development to fast deployment. You have the skills and mindset of a high quality swiss army knife and can adapt to any technical problem we have in the organization. This is an Office / Hybrid role (3 days in office per week) based in our San Francisco, California office. What you will do: Own the Core Technology roadmap: Define and maintain the 3-year roadmap for Oura’s foundational manufacturing processes, with focus on miniaturization, water-tightness (molding), and high-density electronics (SMT). Standardize “Golden Processes”: Together with our other technical leaders, establish core process modules that become the technical skeleton for all NPIs, ensuring improvements from one program are quickly propagated to the global standard. Build and protect IP: Identify, develop, and protect proprietary manufacturing methods that give Oura a durable competitive advantage in form factor, robustness, and reliability. Lead molding, encapsulation & optics excellence: Drive advanced epoxy molding, water-tightness and enable best-in-class optical solutions for biosignal sensing. Drive next-generation SMT: Own the strategy for ultra-miniaturized SMT, including component size roadmap, flexible PCB handling, and robust underfill/overcoating solutions. Set equipment & tooling strategy: Define the global “Best in Class” equipment standards and own key vendor relationships (molding solutions, SMT lines, dispensing/etc) to ensure CMs can execute core recipes. Deploy core experts into programs: Create and run a deployment model where Core Tech specialists support project teams during critical EVT/DVT/PVT phases to secure process choices and line concepts. Ensure CM site readiness: Partner with Global Supply Chain and CMs to qualify factories to run selected proprietary processes at high volume with required yield, reliability, and capacity. Provide solution planning visibility: Maintain active technical discussion within Manufacturing leadership so current activities, future solutions, risks, and wins are visible across the team. Act as technical anchor in Manufacturing leadership: Be the voice of Core Manufacturing Technology in portfolio and strategy discussions, influencing where and how we invest in new capabilities. We would love to have you on our team if you have: Deep operative foundation: 12+ years in high-volume Consumer Electronics, Wearables, Medical Devices or Semiconductors, with real “boots on the ground” experience solving molding or SMT yield/fallout on the factory floor. Proven leadership breadth: Track record leading multi-disciplinary teams of…