Director, Mechanical Sourcing

Our mission at ŌURA 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. At Oura, our mission is to empower people to live healthier, longer. With our award-winning Oura Ring and app, we help millions of people understand their sleep, activity, and readiness so they can live healthier, more balanced lives. We are looking for a Director, Global Mechanical Sourcing to lead the strategy, execution, and development of Oura's global mechanical sourcing organization. This leader will own mechanical sourcing across current and future hardware programs, with global responsibility spanning the established Finland and US teams and broader regional supplier partnerships. This is an established function with strong leaders and processes already in place. The Director will align mechanical sourcing strategy across team based in the US, Finland, and Asia; connect priorities across the portfolio; improve decision-making; and be accountable for the function's results as Oura grows - building on what is working while addressing the gaps that require a stronger global approach. The Director will lead through existing leaders and teams, develop sourcing talent, strengthen the operating model, and raise the bar for analytical standards and commercial discipline. The role will work closely with Product, Industrial Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Program Management, Finance, Legal, Logistics, and senior leadership. This role is for a leader who can set direction, stay close enough to the details to know what is really happening, lean in to contribute directly as necessary, and make decisions when the information is incomplete. The work will require resilience with suppliers, direct communication, and good judgment. The right leader will manage effectively up and down, stay accountable for outcomes, and invest deeply in the growth of their direct reports. They will hold themselves and the team to a high standard of integrity, collaboration, and follow-through. This is a hybrid role requiring someone to work 2-3 days a week out of our San Francisco office. What You Will Do Set the global mechanical sourcing strategy Define and execute a multi-year global mechanical sourcing strategy aligned to Oura's product roadmap, margin goals, quality standards, launch plans, resilience requirements, and manufacturing footprint. Set supplier architecture across regions, technologies, and production stages, including preferred suppliers, second sources, geographic diversification, and capability-development priorities. Create or iterate category strategies for key mechanical commodities such as CNC, injection molding, stamping, MIM, die casting, surface finishing, coatings, structural components, die cuts, softgoods, and related packaging categories where applicable. Translate market conditions, technology developments, supplier capacity, geopolitical exposure, and cost drivers into clear recommendations for senior leadership. Build a global mechanical sourcing roadmap that aligns priorities, supplier architecture, and tradeoffs across regions, building on existing strategies and processes while closing the observed gaps. Lead and develop the global team Lead the global mechanical sourcing organization through its existing leaders, aligning regional priorities and setting clear outcomes and decision rights across regions, commodities, programs, and supplier rel…

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