Senior Demand Forecasting Analyst (Equity)

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation & equity

Health, dental, vision

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Paid time off + holidays + wellness

Parental leave

Job summary

Ōura is seeking a Forecast Analyst – Demand Planning to enhance forecasting through better analytics, data integration, and scalable methodologies. As a senior individual contributor, you’ll translate signals into forecasts, build robust baselines, and help move toward ML-enabled forecasting with input from Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Data, Finance, and Systems partners.

This role is ideal for someone deeply quantitative, practical, and excited to apply data science to planning decisions in a

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in forecasting, demand planning, analytics, data science, operations research, or a closely related field.
• Strong experience building and applying statistical forecasting methods in a business environment.
• Advanced SQL skills and strong proficiency in Python, R, or a similar analytical programming language used for modeling and forecasting.
• Demonstrated ability to work with large, messy data sets and improve data quality, data structure, and analytical reliability.
• Experience developing forecasting models, evaluating model performance, and using diagnostics to improve outcomes over time.
• Strong understanding of planning and operational processes, ideally in consumer products, hardware, retail, or supply chain environments.
• Ability to translate analytical work into clear business recommendations that influence planning decisions and cross-functional action.
• Experience partnering effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across functions.
• Strong ownership mindset and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving processes and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop, improve, and operationalize forecasting methodologies that increase accuracy, responsiveness, and scalability across Ōura’s planning processes.
• Build and refine statistical baseline forecasts using historical demand, seasonality, promotions, product transitions, channel mix, and other key business drivers.
• Help drive Ōura’s evolution toward machine learning-enabled forecasting by identifying the highest-value use cases, testing approaches, and translating outputs into practical planning decisions.
• Evaluate forecast performance using error diagnostics, bias analysis, and other relevant metrics, and turn findings into clear recommendations for improvement.
• Standardize forecasting logic, assumptions, and documentation so methods are transparent, repeatable, and easier to scale.
• Partner with Data and Systems teams to improve the structure, reliability, and integration of demand planning inputs across forecasting workflows.
• Help connect data across shipments, POS, inventory, promotions, product lifecycle events, and other planning inputs so teams can work from a more complete and trusted demand signal.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and improve planning speed through better tooling, automation, and analytical design.
• Support business requirements and validation for planning system enhancements, ensuring analytical and forecasting use cases are well represented.

Skills

Forecasting

SQL

Python

R

Data quality

Modeling

Stakeholder mgmt

Cross-functional

Job description

Ōura is seeking a Forecast Analyst – Demand Planning to enhance forecasting through better analytics, data integration, and scalable methodologies. As a senior individual contributor, you’ll translate signals into forecasts, build robust baselines, and help move toward ML-enabled forecasting with input from Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Data, Finance, and Systems partners.

This role is ideal for someone deeply quantitative, practical, and excited to apply data science to planning decisions in a