Senior Research 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.

Our Research Operations team helps turn that ambition into reality by designing and executing human research studies that fuel our R&D.

We’re hiring an experienced Senior Research Project Manager to lead and scale this core function in the San Diego office. You’ll run a growing portfolio of studies and partnerships, manage a small team of research coordinators, build processes for more effective research, and work alongside a range of scientists and engineers.

What you will do:

• Lead cross-functional research study execution—including budgets, contracts, IRB and regulatory submissions, logistics, trouble-shooting, and data quality monitoring, for both internal and external studies.
• Manage and grow a team of research coordinators—scale our in-house research study capabilities in the San Diego location
• Expand our network of research partners—identify, vet, and build relationships with institutional partners and CROs to complement our internal capabilities
• Collaborate with science and engineering teams—develop tools to ensure high-quality data collection and thorough documentation
• Build internal processes—propose and implement new tools, processes, and templates that allow the team to move faster, while preserving scientific rigor

This is a hybrid role based out of our San Diego office with the expectation to be onsite 3+ days per week and as needed for in-person data collection and key meetings..

Requirements

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

• Has 5+ years of full-time experience running human subjects research—academic, commercial, or clinical—including managing junior research staff
• Experience managing research studies at all stages; including study startup, study execution/maintenance, and database locking
• Delivers high quality, multimodal data sets with meticulous documentation, aligned with best practices (e.g. GCP)
• Is fluent with physiological sensors, medical devices (e.g. EEG, CGM, PSG), and regulated clinical trials and experienced with solving data quality issues at the source
• Thrives on in-person collaboration and builds momentum through hands-on work
• Is flexible with scheduling: comfortable with occasional site visits and global team calls outside normal business hours

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 2 $115,000 - $144,000

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.