Senior Technical Program Manager, Manufacturing

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.

As the Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Manufacturing, you will be the primary bridge between Product Development (PD) and Global Manufacturing Operations. You are the single point of contact for all manufacturing process development and deployment within the PD program. Your mission is to ensure that every piece of custom automation, tooling, and test equipment is designed, validated, and deployed on time to meet aggressive product launch milestones.This is a US Hybrid (3 days per week) role based in our San Francisco, California office.

What You Will Do

• Program Single Point of Contact (SPOC): Act as the lead representative for Manufacturing Engineering in all PD program forums.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Work in lockstep with Operations Program Managers (OPMs) and Engineering Program Managers (EPMs) to align equipment schedules with the master product schedule. Bring diverse teams together to tackle complex problems and work towards closure.
• Understand and collaborate in developing the Plan of Record (POR), ensuring qualification plans, checklists and specifications are in place to support production release.
• Equipment Lifecycle Management: Drive the end-to-end development of manufacturing equipment, from initial requirements gathering and vendor selection (RFQs) to Final Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT).
• Risk Mitigation: Identify technical bottlenecks in the manufacturing process early in the design phase. Proactively manage dependencies between hardware design changes and equipment capability.
• Change Management: Manage changes impacting Manufacturing area to understand change impact and deployment planning.
• Deployment & Scaling: Oversee the installation and bring-up of manufacturing lines at global sites, ensuring equipment meets yield, cycle time, and reliability targets.
• Budget & Resource Tracking: Manage CAPEX/OPEX budgets for manufacturing development and ensure resources are allocated to the highest-priority program workstreams.
• What good looks like in 6 months:
• You are the recognized manufacturing voice in PD program forums for at least one active NPI program, and program leads come to you first for manufacturing readiness status.
• You have built an integrated equipment and process schedule (automati

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ographic 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 $198,050- $233,000

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