Senior IT Project & Operations Planning Manager, Oura
$123-155k
+ Equity packages. Salary dependent on location. A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location
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Health monitoring smart ring
Open for applications
Health monitoring smart ring
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$123-155k
+ Equity packages. Salary dependent on location. A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Oura's mission is to make health a daily practice.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 6+ years of IT project management experience, ideally within Infrastructure & Operations or IT workplace services teams
- Leadership and Mentorship: Strong leadership skills with experience mentoring team members and leading cross-functional initiatives
- Resource and Operations Management: Demonstrated experience in balancing project and operational work for a technology or IT-focused team
- Agile Project Management: Proficiency in agile methodologies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, with hands-on experience managing projects using agile principles
- Work Management Tools: Proficiency in work management tools such as Jira for tracking and managing project tasks, and Confluence for documentation and collaboration
- Communication and Planning Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a strong ability to plan, prioritize, and coordinate complex workstreams
- Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to work cross-functionally, build strong relationships, and manage expectations effectively across all levels. Skilled in aligning stakeholders, navigating competing priorities, and driving consensus
- Strategic Planning and Adaptability: Proficiency in managing shifting priorities and quickly realigning resources as needed
- Regulated Environment Experience: Experience working in regulated environments, particularly supporting healthcare or government sector contracts, with a strong understanding of compliance controls and regulatory requirements
- Remote Collaboration and Travel: Ability to lead teams in remote settings, managing productivity and engagement across distributed environments, with occasional travel to support strategic planning sessions and in-person initiatives
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior IT Project & Operations Planning Manager responsible for coordinating resources, scheduling, and aligning priorities across all IT Operations team activities, from project-based initiatives to essential operational tasks
- Reporting to the Director of IT Operations, this role ensures that the team meets diverse organizational needs, balancing proactive project work with critical operational support
- The Senior IT Project & Operations Planning Manager will lead strategic planning and resource allocation, proactively shape delivery standards, and mentor team members
- The role applies agile project management methodologies for structured project workstreams and leverages Kanban methods to manage and prioritize more reactive, run-the-business tasks efficiently
- Collaborate with IT Operations management to create and maintain a roadmap that encompasses both project and run-the-business activities
- Use agile planning and prioritization techniques to balance short-term fixes and improvements with strategic, longer-term project initiatives
- Serve as the main point of contact for aligning on incoming requests, communicating priorities, and coordinating timing with stakeholders
- Regularly update stakeholders on project progress, operational status, and roadmap adjustments, ensuring transparency and alignment with organizational priorities
- Facilitate roadmap presentations and status reviews, proactively addressing potential changes, risks, and impacts on timelines to keep stakeholders informed and engaged
- Lead agile project management practices, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to maintain team momentum and ensure incremental progress
- Champion agile methodologies to improve workflow efficiency, ensuring project and operational work are completed in an iterative and adaptive manner
- Develop a comprehensive resource plan in collaboration with IT services teams to allocate team members effectively across projects, operational tasks, break-fix activities, and small improvements
- Forecast resource needs and adjust allocations dynamically based on project timelines and operational demands
- Implement process improvements that streamline resource management, agile practices, and operational prioritization
- Use feedback from agile retrospectives and other tools to continuously refine team practices, enhancing both responsiveness and efficiency
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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: $353.1m
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 values
- Not Me, We: Ubuntu - At Oura, we are one team. We each have a significant role to play–but we don’t win in silos. We know in order to succeed, we must do it together. We embrace the diversity of our locations, perspectives, and experiences to succeed as one company
- We Are Human First - Humanity is present in all that we do. We are passionate about building products that celebrate and support uniqueness, inclusivity, and diversity. We meet people where they are, as they are, and prioritize accessibility, by connecting with kindness and empathy
- We Find Solutions - We confront obstacles head-on. Even if we disagree, we share one common goal: solving the problem, together
- Trust Matters - If we say we’ll do something, we do it. We always show up with integrity, and we prioritize privacy– because it doesn’t just matter to us, but to you, as well. We do the right thing, even when no one is looking. It is vital to us that our community and teammates know that they can rely on our products, information, and perspective
Company HQ
Linnanmaa, Oulu
Articles
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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