Staff System Engineering Program Manager

Oura Oura · Consumer · San Francisco, CA +1 · Hardware

Oura is seeking an experienced Staff System Engineering Program Manager to lead hardware engineering teams through the end-to-end product development process, from NPI to scaled mass production. The role involves coordinating electrical, mechanical, firmware, and test engineers, managing program timelines, risks, and resources, and ensuring product maturity for launch.

What you'd actually do

  1. Coordinate and lead the work of hardware engineering teams: electrical, mechanical, firmware, system test and hardware compliance.
  2. Lead the engineering team to identify team level milestones and deliverables (against Program level targets) identifying the critical path and dependencies within engineering teams and between engineering and other teams such as Product, Industrial Design, Science, Software and Supply Chain.
  3. Scope work and inform program-level milestones including launch targets
  4. Interface with hardware engineering leadership both to provide program reporting and receive strategic guidance.
  5. Collaborate effectively with other PMO colleagues and program leaders across the company.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience with the entire end-to-end product development process including Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Firmware, System Test, Manufacturing and Supply Chain.
  • Experience working on complex products with new technology and/or challenging technology integration.
  • Knowledge of standard workflows and dependencies within single engineering disciplines and between engineering disciplines (examples: reaching ID Lock, board design and release, mechanical design and tooling start)
  • Previous experience taking a complex product through NPI phases to scaled mass production including experience leading factory builds (SMT and FATP)
  • Experience working in a phase gate development model and developing entry and exit criteria and defining appropriate maturity
  • Experience structuring and executing DOEs
  • Skills using project management tools such as Jira, Confluence and SmartSheet
  • Knowledge of project management best practices (PMP not required) and ability to develop and implement new processes and workflows.
  • Knowledge of PLM systems such as Team Center or Arena

Nice to have

  • Travel up to 25-30% time

What the JD emphasized

  • entire end-to-end product development process
  • complex products with new technology and/or challenging technology integration
  • NPI phases to scaled mass production
  • factory builds (SMT and FATP)
  • phase gate development model