Vice President of Software Design, Oura
$288.4-339.4k
+ Equity packages
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Health monitoring smart ring
Open for applications
Health monitoring smart ring
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$288.4-339.4k
+ Equity packages
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Oura's mission is to make health a daily practice.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Fine Arts, HCI, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred
- A portfolio that demonstrates excellence in both UI and UX across relevant industries
- Extensive and diverse experience in leading design teams as a function head, or head of design
- Passion for building creative teams and conditions for creative excellence
- Deep understanding of the tech industry; experience with wearable technologies or health-related digital products is a strong plus
- Demonstrated expertise in designing AI-powered experiences, with a working knowledge of the technologies that enable them
- Exceptional communication, storytelling, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience working within or alongside global organizations, navigating cultural nuances and distributed teams with ease
What the job involves
- We are looking for a visionary Vice President of Software Design to lead our software design teams and help establish the San Francisco Design Studio as a center of excellence for product creation
- Reporting to ŌURA’s Chief Design Officer, this leader will play a critical role in shaping the future of our digital experiences
- To design in this context is to craft meaningful relationships between humans and technology—to understand humanity, biology, and culture—and to create intuitive, empowering tools that help people live their dreams
- Lead and inspire ŌURA’s software design teams, setting a high bar for design excellence across mobile, web, and future platforms
- Define and drive the creative and artistic vision for software experiences that reflect ŌURA’s mission and brand
- Champion a cohesive, user-centered design language that unifies product experiences and meets strategic business goals
- Partner with Industrial Design and Interaction Architecture teams to craft seamless, end-to-end integrated experiences
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, science, and marketing to embed design deeply into product development cycles
- Spearhead innovation in emerging technologies, with a strong emphasis on AI-powered, contextual, and agentic interaction models
- Recruit, develop, and mentor a high-performing software design team, cultivating a culture of excellence, experimentation, and inclusivity
- This is a San Francisco - based role that involves regular interaction and collaboration with Oura colleagues in Finland and across the US
- Time zones: Finland is in the Eastern European Time Zone, which is 10 hours ahead of US Pacific Time; for example, 7 AM in San Francisco is 5 PM in Finland
Our take
As smart watches with health and wellbeing monitoring functions are now an everyday norm, Oura is offering similar wearable technology with its series of rings. It’s one of a number of companies gaining serious traction in the market, along with the likes of Circular and Movano.
The company gained an early profile after its collaboration with Gucci which created mainstream publicity and may have given it a leg up on the competition. With the smart ring market forecast to keep growing, Oura certainly finds itself in a promising position as it moves to build out its operations and refine the product.
The bottom line for Oura will be customer satisfaction and demand, which does make its mixed reviews so far a little troubling. That said, the announcement of its new "Circles" social feature, on top of an integration with InsideTracker and acquisition of "wave to pay" company Proxy, all look set to increase the functionality of the ring and could well win more consumers over.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Dec 2024
$125m
SERIES D
Nov 2024
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $354.4m
Company benefits
- Beautiful workspaces in San Francisco by Pier 31, Oulu and Helsinki (Finland)
- Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers
- Wellness benefits
- An Oura Ring of your own
- Personal learning & development budget of 750 USD/EUR
- Unlimited course offerings from Coursera
- Five (5) total days of work time to devote to employee development training
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 20 days of PTO
Company HQ
Linnanmaa, Oulu
Leadership
Tom Hale
(CEO, Not Founder)Seasoned senior board member and advisor at multiple high growth companies including Cars.com, Volara, and HomeAway.
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