HW Operations Program Manager

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 2.5 million people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.

Empowering the world starts with living 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.

We’re seeking a talented HW Operations Program Manager to join our NPI Supply Chain team and help us deliver the best in class HW products to our members.

The position requires the ability to work effectively with our supply chain team, engineering, and other cross-functional teams, as well as contract manufacturers and suppliers. This position also requires exceptional communication skills, strong analytical & problem solving skills - ability to understand and combine large amounts of information and arrange them to clear, actionable, tasks and drive them to completion - and the ability to operate in a dynamic environment with competing or changing priorities.

This role is a hybrid role, located in Oulu, Finland

What you will do:

• Drive Supply Chain readiness for our HW products and ensure program delivery on schedule, on scale, on cost and on quality.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Supply Chain, and Product management teams to meet deadlines and drive product readiness.
• Create and develop and manage relationships with our Contract Manufacturers and various suppliers.
• Drive for excellence - keep internal and external teams focused on the needed tasks and goals - exhibit ownership, sense of urgency and world class execution.
• Lead post-ramp validations for product and process changes
• Identify and manage improvements around the supply chain in cost, quality, efficiency and output.
• Identify, manage and mitigate risks for both internal and external teams - drive to resolution with high quality decision making.
• Always think what’s next - Proactively address issues and obstacles that impact program deliverables.
• Foster a collaborative and productive working environment with open communication to all stakeholders. Superior teamwork is a must.
• Provide regular program status updates to senior management.
• Build strong relationships to ensure alignment between design intent, supplier capabilities, and project deliverables.
• Support internal teams with timely and actionable feedback on manufacturing feasibility and supplier selection.
• Create and maintain comprehensive program documentation - keep all workstreams within supply chain on track and moving towards a common goal.
• Drive efficiency through systems both internally and externally with our CMs and vendors.

We would love to have you on our team if you have:

• 10+ years of experience in delivering products to customers in complex environments at large scale.
• Experience leading programs in all stages of the product lifecycle.
• Experience working with all HW engineering disciplines - Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial Design - as well as Supply chain disciplines - Sourcing, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, Supply & Demand Planning.
• Ability to travel and be onsite at our global offices and supply chain partners.
• Superb interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence effectively across different workstreams to drive absolute excellence.
• Passion for excellence - endless drive  to learn and push the teams to deliver and drive continuous improvements..
• Comfort speaking to all audiences and the ability to adapt complex challenges into tangible solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Lunch benefit
• Wellness benefit
• Flexible working hours
• Collaborative, smart teammates
• An Oura ring of your own
• Personal learning & development program
• Wellness Time Off

If this sounds like the next step for you, please send us your application by February 27th, 2025.

Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, socioeconomic status, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics