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.
As the Clinical Director of Metabolic Health you will bring your expertise in endocrinology or metabolic medicine into a fast-moving, technology-driven environment. While a member of the Clinical Affairs team, your day to day will be in partnership with hardware, algorithm, science and regulatory teams to define, validate and bring to market metabolic-relevant features that enhance Oura’s ability to monitor and support metabolic-related health. The role centers on metabolic health, while requiring a whole person view to health and wellness. You’re the clinician-scientist who bridges human physiology and wearable product innovation across the wellness and software as a medical device (SaMD) spaces.
What you’ll do
- Build trust and credibility for Oura and our products for members, physicians, scientists and health systems.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, data science and algorithm teams to define clinical features aligned with metabolic health, including integrations with continuous glucose monitors (CGM) and laboratory testing, and alignment with related teams such as sleep, activity and women’s health.
- Collaborate on clinical feature specifications: Translate your metabolic health knowledge and existing literature into real-world informed performance goals, working closely with science and product teams.
- Design and oversee clinical validation studies (feasibility, observational, real-world) to demonstrate product performance and clinical relevance in the metabolic space.
- Work with regulatory, quality and clinical outcomes teams to build protocols, drive submissions and ensure compliance in applicable markets, and adapt to the changing regulatory environment in major markets.
- Engage cross-functionally: proactively anticipate risks, communicate clearly about challenges, adjust plans, and maintain a collaborative mindset.
- Serve as a clinical voice across the organization: staying abreast of the newest and most relevant medical insights, weaving this science into product decisions, translating this into company knowledge and features.
- Guide the team on inclusion of appropriate biometrics and ground truth data, clinical endpoints, and study design. Uplevel internal knowledge across teams related to this domain of medicine and science.
- Represent Oura externally to scientific audiences, payors, partners, clinicians and health systems.
What we’re looking for
Minimum qualifications
- MD/DO/MBBS with deep expertise in general endocrinology, metabolic medicine, or related specialty.
- Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Endocrinology or a related specialty with an active medical license.
- At least 5 years practicing medicine in a relevant field.
- Prior experience in health product development or digital health, in regulated environments (software as a medical device/SaMD, wearables, diagnostics).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; comfortable presenting to diverse teams including leadership.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience designing and executing pivotal clinical studies for regulated health products (evidence generation, real-world observational datasets, algorithm validation).
- Familiarity with algorithm/ML development in a clinical context (glycemic patterns, insulin resistance markers, or metabolic-physiology signals) and with the application of statistical analysis to clinical algorithms.
- Familiarity with diagnostic and wearable signals, their physiologic origins and the principles behind their measurement modalities.
- Experience partnering with regulatory bodies (FDA, EU MDR/IVDR, or equivalent) on product submissions for metabolic health tools.
Why you’ll love working here
- Get to jump in as a direct contributor to Oura’s vision, working deeply with our cross functional colleagues, with the potential to grow a team, expand your influence internally and external to Oura.
- Make a direct impact on millions of users seeking better sleep, recovery, and metabolic health insights.
- Work in a small team setting where your clinical insight directly guides product direction and innovation.
- Collaborate across hardware, firmware, algorithm, data science, design and clinical operations — and have your clinical voice heard.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and an opportunity to be part of a company that puts wellness, science and innovation at the center.
**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 Region based on your US location.
We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).
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