Senior Packaging Program Lead, Hardware & NPI

Ōura; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Equity compensation

Time off – PTO and holidays

Sick leave & parental leave

Job summary

Ōura is seeking a Packaging Program Manager to lead end-to-end packaging development from concept through mass production for new products and sustaining initiatives. Based in San Francisco, you will align packaging with product, brand, cost, quality, and sustainability goals in a fast-moving hardware environment.

You will manage schedules, dependencies, and cross-functional teams across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Marketing to ensure packaging readiness for gates, validation,

Qualifications

• 7+ years in program management for consumer electronics or packaging programs.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional programs from concept through production ramp and launch.
• Strong understanding of packaging development processes, validation milestones, tooling, artwork release, supplier readiness, and manufacturing execution.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex schedules, dependencies, and cross-functional decisions.
• Strong executive communication skills with ability to present clear status, risks, and recovery plans.
• Experience with external vendors, contract manufacturers, and global supply chain partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end packaging program execution for new product development, special editions, and sustaining changes from concept through launch and post-launch support.
• Build and manage integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and decision logs for packaging deliverables across engineering, operations, and commercial teams.
• Partner across Packaging Engineering, Product Management, Design, Hardware Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Creative, and Marketing to align technical, business, and brand requirements.
• Translate product, technical, and brand requirements into executable packaging plans and drive packaging readiness through development gates, validation builds, ramp, and launch.
• Own cross-functional coordination of key packaging deliverables, including structure, materials, artwork, labeling, specifications, tooling, pack-out, and supplier feasibility.
• Drive technical packaging development and validation including design reviews, material selection, manufacturability, tolerance alignment, transit and environmental testing, line trials, and pilot builds.
• Ensure packaging solutions meet the product requirements including protection, reliability, regulatory, sustainability, cost, manufacturability, distribution, and customer unboxing experience.
• Manage packaging-related change control, specification and artwork revisions, BOM alignment, issue resolution, and cross-functional tradeoff discussions throughout development and sustaining.
• Identify packaging program and technical risks early, drive mitigation plans to closure, and coordinate external partners and suppliers to deliver materials, tooling, specifications, and logistics on time.
• Track cost, quality, schedule, readiness, and technical maturity metrics, and manage the overall packaging tracker to improve packaging materials, waste reduction, regulatory alignment, and execution discipline.

Skills

Packaging PM

Cross-functional leadership

Hardware packaging

Schedule management

Vendor management

Risk management

Executive communication

Job description

Ōura is seeking a Packaging Program Manager to lead end-to-end packaging development from concept through mass production for new products and sustaining initiatives. Based in San Francisco, you will align packaging with product, brand, cost, quality, and sustainability goals in a fast-moving hardware environment.

You will manage schedules, dependencies, and cross-functional teams across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Marketing to ensure packaging readiness for gates, validation,