Director, Strategy & Operations

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 have offices in San Francisco and San Diego for those who prefer hybrid or office settings. Oura employees in other major cities (like Boston and New York) occasionally gather informally at local co-working locations.

As a Director of Strategy & Operations, you'll be the engine behind Oura's biggest growth and investment decisions. You'll lead the analytical and strategic work that identifies new markets and deliver the business cases that shape resource allocation across the company. You will act as the strategic tip of the spear for the organization — turning ambiguity into conviction and conviction into action at a company defining the future of health

What you will do:

Strategy & Investment theses

• Lead end-to-end strategy development for new growth vectors — from opportunity identification through business case to execution roadmap
• Evaluate emerging markets, geographies, and customer segments to determine where Oura should play and how to win
• Drive international growth strategy — work with cross-functional teams to build market entry plans, channel strategies and localized go-to-market approaches
• Oversee the development of investment theses and business cases that inform leadership's biggest resource allocation decisions

Executive Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to C-suite leaders, framing the questions that matter, structuring key analyses and driving leadership to make decisions
• Create high-quality strategic materials for board discussions, investor conversations, and executive offsites
• Lead cross-functional alignment on the company's highest-priority strategic initiatives — clarifying ownership, surfacing trade-offs, and resolving misalignment quickly

Strategic Planning & Execution

• Partner with Department leadership on annual and quarterly planning, ensuring strategic priorities are reflected in resource allocation and investment decisions
• Shape the analytical frameworks and planning infrastructure that drive enterprise-level prioritization and trade-off decisions
• Identify build, buy, and partner trade-offs for new capabilities required to capture growth opportunities
• Drive adoption of AI-powered workflows across the S&O function — raising the bar on how the team plans, models and delivers strategic insight at speed

Requirements:

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

• 10–12+ years of experience in management consulting (MBB preferred), corporate strategy, investment banking, or growth-stage operating roles
• Proven track record leading (not just contributing to) growth strategies — market entry, geographic expansion, partnerships, or new business model development
• Demonstrated ability to own a strategic agenda end-to-end — from framing the question through mobilizing cross-functional teams to deliver outcomes
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills; you build conviction through data, not intuition alone
• Executive presence — you hold the room with C-suite leaders and drive alignment without positional authority
• Fluency with the latest AI tools — you've used them to transform how teams work, not just how you work individually
• Experience in health technology, digital health, consumer hardware, or membership businesses (a plus)

Location

This is a remote US role. We have a strong preference for candidates based in San Francisco or the Bay Area, and are open to candidates in PST or MST time zones.

Benefits

At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura 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 Oura 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

Oura 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: $200,600 - $236,000
• Region 2: $182,750 - $215,000
• Region 3: $164,900 - $194,000

A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), 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.

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