Staff System Engineering Program Manager

Title: Staff System Engineering Program Manager Location: Hybrid - San Francisco, California

We’re looking for a Hardware Program Manager to join Oura’s Hardware PMO. In this role, you will lead a major technical hardware effort from early prototype through PVT, bringing clarity, urgency, and accountability to a complex, cross-functional team. You will coordinate work across Hardware Engineering—including mechanical, electrical, firmware, science, and test—and partner across Product, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and other teams to deliver a high-quality product against agreed scope, schedule, and budget. You will lead from the front: running the core team, surfacing decisions and risks early, and communicating program health to executive leadership.

What You Will Do:

• Lead a major hardware program or program workstream from early prototype through PVT, aligning teams on scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, and launch-critical outcomes.
• Coordinate integrated execution across mechanical, electrical, firmware, science, and test teams; connect their plans, dependencies, decisions, and deliverables into one coherent program plan.
• Build and maintain the integrated schedule, critical path, milestone plan, and action log. Identify cross-functional dependencies and keep owners accountable for commitments.
• Plan and coordinate hardware builds from early prototypes through EVT, DVT, and PVT, including build objectives, readiness criteria, material and resource needs, issue triage, and follow-through on build learnings.
• Run effective core team meetings: set clear agendas, focus discussion on decisions and trade-offs, document actions and owners, and drive closure between meetings.
• Lead from the front when execution is at risk. Unblock teams, drive timely decisions, align stakeholders on recovery plans, and escalate issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Identify, assess, and manage program risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies. Ensure mitigation plans have accountable owners, dates, and measurable closure criteria.
• Own program budget management, including planning, tracking actuals and forecasts, identifying variances, and presenting trade-offs or corrective actions to the appropriate leaders.
• Prepare and present concise, decision-oriented program updates to the executive team and other senior stakeholders, covering status, schedule, budget, key accomplishments, risks, decisions needed, and recovery plans.
• Partner with Hardware Engineering and functional leaders to align resource needs, technical priorities, and program commitments; make cross-team impacts and trade-offs visible.
• Coordinate with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and manufacturing partners to ensure build readiness, issue resolution, and a clear path through PVT.
• Maintain accurate program documentation and reporting, including plans, decisions, risks, budgets, build readiness, and status.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Hardware PMO practices and product development processes.

This is a hybrid role out of our San Francisco office.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of experience leading technical programs or complex product development, preferably in consumer hardware.
• Experience coordinating hardware development across multiple disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, firmware, science or systems, and test.
• Experience leading a hardware program through NPI stages and coordinating prototype or factory builds; familiarity with EVT, DVT, and PVT is strongly preferred.
• Strong program-management fundamentals, including integrated scheduling, critical-path management, budget tracking, risk management, dependency management, and action closure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity, influence without direct authority, and create accountability while maintaining strong working relationships.
• Confidence leading core team forums and presenting clear, concise program status and risks to executive or senior leadership audiences.
• Strong judgment and communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical issues into decisions, trade-offs, and actionable plans.
• Experience with program-management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, Confluence, and Google Workspace; familiarity with PLM systems such as Teamcenter or Arena is a plus.
• A desire to learn, take on challenges, and drive results while protecting product quality and customer outcomes.

Benefits

At Ōura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Ōura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Ōura 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

Ōura 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 $ 198,000 - 233,000

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).