Staff Product Manager, Hardware

Oura is seeking a Staff Product Manager, Hardware to drive the development of groundbreaking hardware products. This role involves taking full ownership of a product, from crafting its unique story based on customer insights to proactively resolving issues throughout its lifecycle. Responsibilities include conducting market research, managing product requirements, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams in engineering, design, and science. The manager will also contribute to the hardware product portfolio's vision and strategy, ensuring timely and high-quality execution and supporting go-to-market readiness.

Must Have

• Take ownership of a hardware product
• Craft a unique product story
• Proactively identify and resolve product-related issues
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and user studies
• Write and manage product requirements (PRD)
• Support the entire product lifecycle
• Prioritize features, options, and product improvements
• Effectively communicate priorities, plans, progress, and challenges
• Work closely with cross-functional teams
• Contribute to the vision, strategy, and roadmap for hardware portfolio
• Support go-to-market readiness
• 10+ years in product management with proven track record
• Deep understanding of hardware development
• Experience with connected electronics
• Successfully launched hardware products from concept to commercial launch
• Ability to combine consumer, technology, and business insights into a simple narrative
• Ability to quickly analyze and solve challenging problems
• Unmatched ability to get things done and unblock situations
• Excellent written and presentation skills
• Unrelenting optimism, kindness, and thoughtfulness
• Natural tendency to do things well, try new things, and learn quickly

Good to Have

• Wearables expertise
• Health sensing experience
• Track record managing multiple projects simultaneously

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Oura Ring of your own
• Employee discounts for friends & family
• 20 days of paid time off
• 13 paid holidays
• 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• Paid sick leave
• Parental leave

We are looking for a Staff Product Manager, Hardware to help us deliver groundbreaking hardware products that our customers will love. The Staff Product Manager will be a driving force in delivering an unmatched product experience in close collaboration with a global, cross-functional team.

What you will do:

• Product Ownership: take ownership of a hardware product to maximize company impact and customer satisfaction by solving customer and business pain points
• Storytelling: Craft a unique product story rooted in deep customer insights.
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify and resolve product-related issues throughout the product lifecycle.
• Market & User Research: conduct market research, competitive analysis, and qualitative and quantitative user studies
• Requirements Management: Write and manage product requirements (PRD), regularly assess progress, and facilitate timely decision making
• Product Development Lifecycle: Support the entire product lifecycle from concept to end of life, working closely with engineering and design teams to ensure timely and high-quality execution
• Prioritization: prioritize features, options, and product improvements - balancing cost, timeline, and experience tradeoffs
• Communication: Effectively communicate priorities, plans, progress, and challenges to stakeholders across the organization. Maintain clear, organized communication.
• Collaboration: Work closely with a diverse, talented team of designers, engineers, scientists, marketers, and analysts to create incredible products. Partner closely with software product management counterparts.
• Roadmap support: contribute to the vision, strategy, and roadmap for hardware product portfolio, including next-generation products.
• Go-to-market: Support go-to-market readiness by developing compelling positioning and pricing and overseeing overall product readiness.

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REQUIREMENTS

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

• 10+ years of experience in product management with a proven track record of delivering products with high business impact and outstanding customer satisfaction.
• A deep understanding of hardware development, including design phases, manufacturing, materials, compliance, and quality.
• Experience with connected electronics including connectivity, compute, battery, firmware, and software features.
• Successfully taken new and/or existing hardware products from concept to commercial launch with minimal supervision.
• Ability to combine consumer, technology, and business insights into a simple narrative (with data to back it up) that excites both internal and external audiences.
• Ability to quickly analyze and come up with creative solutions to challenging problems under pressure and with extreme constraints.
• Unmatched ability to get things done, move mountains, roll up your sleeves, and unblock tricky situations with empathy, intelligence, and drive.
• Excellent written and presentation skills that create clear thinking, high-quality discussions, and effective decision-making among large groups.
• Unrelenting optimism that drives people and projects forward, mixed with genuine kindness and thoughtfulness.
• A natural tendency to do something as well as it can possibly be done, try new things, and learn quickly from failed experiments.

Bonus Qualifications

• Wearables expertise
• Health sensing experience
• Track record managing multiple projects simultaneously