Senior Director, AI-Driven Software Engineering (Women’s Health)

Oura; Boston, New York, San Francisco (MA, NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 213,000 - 308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity packages

Health, dental, vision insurance, and

An Ōura Ring of your own plus employee

20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid

Paid sick leave and parental leave

Job summary

ŌURA is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the Women’s Health engineering organization and shape strategy for high-impact consumer experiences. You will partner with Product, Design, Science, Data Science, Clinical, and Regulatory to turn member needs into a coherent roadmap and drive AI-native development across teams.

This remote US role prefers candidates in San Francisco, NY or Boston and requires 10–15 years building software with 5+ years in leadership, to scale the

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Software leadership

Leadership experience

AI-native engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

People leadership

Product judgement

AI-enabled product development

Empathy in leadership

Job description

ŌURA is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the Women’s Health engineering organization and shape strategy for high-impact consumer experiences. You will partner with Product, Design, Science, Data Science, Clinical, and Regulatory to turn member needs into a coherent roadmap and drive AI-native development across teams.

This remote US role prefers candidates in San Francisco, NY or Boston and requires 10–15 years building software with 5+ years in leadership, to scale the