Director, IT Strategy & Business Management

ŌURA; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + equity packages

Health, dental, vision insurance

Ōura Ring discount for employees

PTO, holidays & wellness time

Sick and parental leave

Job summary

ŌURA is seeking a Director of IT Strategy & Business Management to establish IT's strategic planning, governance, and financial oversight. You will lead a contractor bridge and grow a small team, embedding cost discipline and a scalable planning framework across ~300 applications.

The role blends strategic thinking with hands-on execution, requiring strong communication with executives and stakeholders, and comfort operating with AI-assisted workflows to optimize IT investments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT experience, including 4+ years leading IT strategy for a fast-growing company.
• Familiarity with Technology Business Management (TBM) or a comparable operating model for governing spend, portfolio and value.
• Experience partnering with FP&A, Procurement/Legal, Enterprise Architecture, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Exceptional executive-level communication skills and the ability to present upward and outward.

Responsibilities

• Own IT's strategic planning: annual planning cycle, multi-year technology plan, business cases and investment narratives.
• Build a contractor bridge and develop a 2–3 FTE target-state team (Analyst, Portfolio Manager, Strategist).
• Establish a shared prioritization and governance model for IT work and rationale.
• Own financial operations with FP&A: cost-center model, spend forecasting, and renewal exposure.
• Own procurement, contract, renewal management, and application inventory with named owners.
• Run IT's executive cadence: all-hands, roadmaps, quarterly reviews, and business updates.

Skills

IT strategy leadership

TBM familiarity

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

AI workflows

Tools

Claude AI

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 Director, IT Strategy & Business Management to build and lead IT's strategic planning, prioritization, and financial governance function from the ground up. You'll give Oura's roughly 70-person IT organization — spanning about 300 applications — a shared way to plan, prioritize, and see its own spend, replacing work that today happens informally at leadership cost. You'll start as the sole builder, then manage and grow a small team — beginning with a contractor bridge — as the work proves it out.

What You Will Do:

• Own the strategic layer for IT — value-based planning, prioritization, and governance — while architecture, delivery, data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI enablement stay with the teams that already own them
• Manage a contractor bridge of two resources (Portfolio Manager, Analyst) through build-out, then hire, lead, and develop a target-state team of 2–3 FTEs (Analyst, Portfolio Manager, Strategist)
• Build IT's strategic planning system: the annual planning cycle, the multi-year technology plan, and the business cases and investment narratives that justify what gets funded and in what order
• Stand up a shared, visible prioritization and governance model for what IT works on and why, so decisions aren't made informally or re-litigated team by team
• Own financial operations in partnership with FP&A — cost-center model, contractor vs. FTE spend, named application ownership, forecast inputs, and a consolidated view of total IT spend and renewal exposure across a technology budget in the upper tens of millions of dollars — feeding FP&A's monthly variance review without becoming a purchasing approval gate
• Own procurement, contract, and renewal management, building a renewal calendar, negotiation packets, and an application inventory with a named service owner per app
• Own contractor and SOW administration and workforce operations — requisition tracking and onboarding readiness across multiple countries
• Run IT's executive operating cadence — all-hands, monthly updates, quarterly roadmap reviews, IT Leadership team meetings, business reviews — as a system that runs without last-minute assembly

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

What you'll bring

• 12+ years of IT experience, including 4+ years leading IT strategy for a fast-growing company — value assessments, prioritization frameworks, multi-year planning, and the judgment calls that come with scaling technology investment alongside the business
• Strong operational discipline, with familiarity with Technology Business Management (TBM) or a comparable technology operating model for governing spend, portfolio, and value
• Experience partnering with FP&A, Procurement/Legal, Enterprise Architecture, and cross-functional stakeholders without owning their process
• Exceptional executive-level communication skills — you'll own how the department presents itself upward and outward; this is an explicit screen, not a nice-to-have
• Demonstrated ability to build strategic planning, financial, and governance processes from scratch in a cross-functional environment, and comfortable operating as the hands-on, sole builder and manager of a small team (starting with a contractor bridge) before it scales to FTEs
• Clarity and discipline about scope: able to operate as the strategic/prioritization layer without drifting into architecture, delivery, or platform ownership that belongs to other functions
• Use LLM assistants/agents (e.g., Claude) daily in your work — research, drafting, analysis, problem-solving — with judgment about when AI is and isn't the right tool, and a habit of verifying output
• Bring judgment to identify which of your own function's recurring processes (renewal tracking, planning-artifact assembly, spend consolidation, reporting) should shift from manual to AI-assisted work, and build that into your team's workflows — not just your own tasks

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 $200,600 - $236,000
Region 2 $182,750 - $215,000
Region 3 $164,900 - $194,000

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).

ŌURA 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 ŌURA are considered without regard 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, 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.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.