Technical Project Manager, Science

Ouraring; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Equity packages

Paid time off and holidays

Employee discounts

Wellness time off

Sick leave and parental leave

Job summary

Ōura is seeking a Technical Project Manager to join our Science team in the United States. You will manage cross-functional R&D programs behind new health sensing capabilities — partnering with Science, Hardware, Firmware, Software, and Product to keep complex programs on track from planning through execution.

This is a remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based in San Francisco or San Diego.

Qualifications

• 4+ years leading scientific or technical projects.
• Experience in scientific, engineering, or product-validation environments; wearable tech preferred.
• Ability to translate scientific needs into clear requirements and interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Own integrated project plans for R&D efforts across Science, Hardware, Firmware, Software and Product.
• Translate scientific and sensing needs into clear requirements and interfaces; escalate as needed.
• Coordinate hand-offs across teams and negotiate feasible commitments.
• Identify readiness gaps in testing, validation, and readiness reviews and turn them into actionable requirements.
• Surface risks early and drive decisions to closure across R&D initiatives.
• Maintain clear ownership and change tracking for protocols and readiness criteria.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Communication skills

Technical fluency

Distributed teams coordination

Education

Technical degree

Job description

Our mission at Oura 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’re looking for a Technical Project Manager to join our Science team in the United States. In this role, you'll manage the cross-functional R&D process behind new health sensing capabilities — partnering with Science, Hardware, Firmware, Software, and Product to keep complex programs on track from planning through execution.

What You Will Do:

• Own integrated project plans for R&D efforts — timelines, milestones, risks, dependencies, and decision paths for Science.
• Partner with scientists, technical and program managers, and functional leaders to translate scientific and sensing needs into clear requirements, interfaces, and escalation paths — working with technical leads to resolve ambiguous or high-judgment calls.
• Coordinate hand-offs across teams and negotiate commitments people can actually hit.
• Apply working knowledge of algorithm development practices and hardware build-and-test cycles to spot readiness gaps across testing, validation, and readiness reviews, and turn them into concrete, actionable requirements in partnership with the relevant technical owner.
• Surface risks early and drive decisions to closure across R&D initiatives.
• Maintain clear ownership and change tracking for protocols, specifications, and readiness criteria within your program's scope.
• Contribute to improving how Science runs projects — cutting duplication, standardizing only where it reduces friction.

This is a remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based in San Francisco or San Diego.

What you'll bring

• 4+ years leading scientific or technical projects, with clear ownership of milestones, dependencies, risks, and cross-functional execution within a defined program scope.
• Experience managing projects in a scientific, engineering, or product-validation environment; human-subjects research and/or wearable tech experience is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of algorithm development practices and hardware build-and-test cycles sufficient to spot readiness gaps across testing, validation, and readiness reviews and translate them into concrete requirements — with support from technical leads on ambiguous or high-stakes calls.
• Comfortable negotiating timelines against real team capacity, clarifying ownership, and pushing back constructively.
• Experience working across international, distributed teams — including flexing hours to collaborate with European colleagues.
• Strong attention to detail, with a track record of clear documentation — decision logs, risk registers, readiness trackers, or similar artifacts that keep cross-functional teams aligned without you in the room.
• Technical degree, or equivalent experience demonstrating strong technical fluency in a scientific/engineering environment.

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 $151,300 - $178,000

Region 2 $138,550 - $163,000

Region 3 $127,500 - $150,000

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).

Oura 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 Oura 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.