Staff Engineering Project Manager

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 an Engineering Project Manager to join our Hardware PMO team. The Hardware PMO works on NPI programs and Sustaining programs. This role may work on both. The Hardware PMO works globally. This role will be located in or near San Diego, California and requires in-office collaboration with the team in San Diego (weekly) as well as in offices in Finland (quarterly). Other global travel to contract manufacturers or other offices as needed (quarterly).  

What you will do:

• Coordinate and lead the work of hardware engineering teams: electrical, mechanical, firmware, system test and hardware compliance.
• Lead the engineering team to identify team level milestones and deliverables (against Program level targets) identifying the critical path and dependencies.
• Scope work and inform program-level milestones including launch targets
• Identify and manage dependencies between hardware engineering and Product, Industrial Design, Science, Software and Supply Chain.
• Interface with hardware engineering leadership both to provide program reporting and receive strategic guidance.
• Collaborate effectively with other PMO colleagues and program leaders across the company.
• Proactively address issues and obstacles that may impact program timelines. Unblock the engineering team, escalating as necessary. Identify how to accelerate when needed
• Coordinate NPI build activities. Ensure product maturity and launch readiness throughout Prototype, EVT, DVT, PVT builds and validation. 
• Drive third parties to deliver against Statements of Work, when applicable for the program
• Contribute to BOM creation and technical specifications
• Drive engineering risk analysis and mitigation planning
• Plan program resourcing together with Hardware team leads
• Oversee engineering change management
• Be an advocate for program excellence, keeping the team focused on what is necessary to deliver on time and in scope
• Address conflict head on, actively working to overcome all adversity 
• Foster a collaborative and productive working environment with open communication to all stakeholders
• Lead improvement projects and contributes to refining the existing product development processes
• Mentor other team members

What you may do:

• Onboard external vendors
• Lead Early Field Failure Analysis efforts

We would love to have you on our team if you have:

• 8-12+ years of experience with the entire end-to-end product development process including Electronics, Mechanics, Firmware, Application layer, Data, and Cloud, System Test, as well as product manufacturing and supply chain processes.
• Skills using project management tools such as Jira and SmartSheet
• Knowledge of project management best practices (PMP not required)
• Knowledge of PLM systems such as Team Center or Arena
• Previous experience taking a complex product through NPI phases to scaled mass production including experience leading factory builds
• A desire to learn new things and accept challenges