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Director, Quality

Oura · Hybrid - San Francisco, California · Hybrid

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About Oura

Enhance your health journey with Oura. The Oura Ring provides round-the-clock insights into sleep, fitness, and stress for wellness. Now HSA/FSA eligible. Backed by ICONIQ.

About the role

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. We’re looking for a Director, Quality to lead quality strategy and execution across Oura’s global engineering organization and supply chain. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Set the quality strategy: Define Oura’s quality vision, operating model, standards, metrics, and priorities across product development, components, suppliers, manufacturing, reliability, and the field
  • Embed quality across the product lifecycle: Establish effective quality gates and decision criteria from concept and architecture through EVT, DVT, PVT, launch, ramp, and sustaining
  • Partner with engineering and product leaders: Influence product architecture, design decisions, materials, specifications, interfaces, validation plans, and manufacturability to prevent quality and reliability issues
  • Lead risk-based quality planning: Establish disciplined use of DFMEA, PFMEA, reliability planning, design reviews, tolerance analysis, GR&R, SPC, DOE, and risk-based verification and validation
  • Influence cross-functional decisions: Provide clear, risk-based recommendations when quality, schedule, cost, performance, capacity, and supply continuity priorities compete
  • Communicate with senior leadership: Present concise assessments of product risk, supplier and manufacturing performance, launch readiness, field quality, and improvement priorities
More about this role

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.

We’re looking for a Director, Quality to lead quality strategy and execution across Oura’s global engineering organization and supply chain.

  • In this role, you will ensure that quality and reliability are designed into our products, components, suppliers, and manufacturing processes from concept through development, launch, ramp, and sustaining operations. You will lead a global team of quality professionals and partner closely with Product Development, Hardware, Software, Reliability, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Customer...

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