Senior Forecast Analyst Demand Planning

The posting, as Oura wrote it

Our mission at ŌURA 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.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior Forecast Analyst – Demand Planning to help strengthen Ōura’s forecasting capabilities through better analytics, improved data integration, and more scalable demand methodologies.

In this senior individual contributor role, you will act as the analytical engine behind demand planning — improving how we translate signals into forecasts, building stronger statistical baselines, and helping the organization move toward more advanced machine learning-enabled forecasting over time. You will work closely with Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Data, Finance, and Systems partners to improve forecast quality, modernize inputs and tooling, and build decision-ready insights that help the business plan with greater confidence.

This role is ideal for someone who is deeply quantitative, highly practical, and excited to apply data science and analytical rigor to real planning decisions in a fast-growing consumer hardware business.

What You Will Do

Forecast Methodology & Model Development

• Develop, improve, and operationalize forecasting methodologies that increase accuracy, responsiveness, and scalability across Ōura’s planning processes.
• Build and refine statistical baseline forecasts using historical demand, seasonality, promotions, product transitions, channel mix, and other key business drivers.
• Help drive Ōura’s evolution toward machine learning-enabled forecasting by identifying the highest-value use cases, testing approaches, and translating outputs into practical planning decisions.
• Evaluate forecast performance using error diagnostics, bias analysis, and other relevant metrics, and turn findings into clear recommendations for improvement.
• Standardize forecasting logic, assumptions, and documentation so methods are transparent, repeatable, and easier to scale.

Data Integration & Planning Infrastructure

• Partner with Data and Systems teams to improve the structure, reliability, and integration of demand planning inputs across forecasting workflows.
• Help connect data across shipments, POS, inventory, promotions, product lifecycle events, and other planning inputs so teams can work from a more complete and trusted demand signal.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and improve planning speed through better tooling, automation

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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

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We are only considering candidates who currently reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Region 1 $143,000 - 169,000

ŌURA 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 ŌURA 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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