Senior Director of Engineering

Job description

Our mission at ŌURA 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. We are looking for a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead Women’s Health engineering at Oura.Women’s Health is one of Oura’s most important opportunities to help members understand, navigate, and act on their health across meaningful life stages and conditions. In this role, you will lead the engineering organization that turns that ambition into trusted, high-impact consumer experiences.This is a role for a product-minded engineering leader who can do two things at once: ship key initiatives that make meaningful progress toward member outcomes, and transform how the organization builds software through AI-native and agentic workflows.You will partner closely with Product, Design, Science, Data Science, Clinical, Regulatory, and other functions. You will shape the engineering strategy, organization, operating model, and leadership system needed to build excellent products at scale. What You Will Do: • Lead and develop the Women’s Health software engineering organization through engineering managers, directors, and key technical leaders. • Partner with Product, Design, Science, Data Science, Clinical, and Regulatory leaders to turn member needs and product strategy into a coherent, high-quality roadmap. • Ship the highest-priority initiatives and ensure they make meaningful progress toward member outcomes—not only delivery milestones. • Build an organization that consistently ships excellent consumer software with measurable impact for members, by creating clarity across team ownership, architecture, dependencies, decision-making, and priorities. • Lead organizational transformation while maintaining delivery momentum and team health. • Set and consistently reinforce a high performance bar across Engineering and the broader Women’s Health organization, including outcomes, technical quality, execution, collaboration, and leadership. • Define and implement an AI-native approach to product development and software engineering, including practical use of AI and agents, quality guardrails, and measurable outcomes. • Build a strong leadership bench through hiring, coaching, feedback, talent development, and thoughtful succession planning. • Represent engineering in senior cross-functional planning and help Oura make sound trade-offs between speed, quality, trust, and long-term leverage. This is a remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based in San Francisco, NY or Boston. What you'll bring • 10–15 years of experience in building software products, ideally 5+ years in leadership. • A track record of shipping consumer software that created meaningful, measurable impact for users or members. • Experience building and scaling a strong product-building organization, including hiring and developing leaders and managing through managers. • Experience leading organizational transformation: changing structures, operating models, culture, or ways of working while maintaining delivery. • A clear and practical perspective on how to build a winning software organization in the age of AI and agents. • Excellent people leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, talent development, and inclusive leadership. • Strong technical and product judgment, with enough depth to make sound trade-offs across architecture, platform, data, quality, reliability, privacy, and speed. • Genuine interest in Women’s Health and the motivation to learn the domain deeply and serve members with empathy. Nice to have: • Experience in Women’s Health, reproductive health, menopause, postpartum, fertility, o