[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![ŌURA logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2026/07/011c99434cd6-221.webp)](https://jobicy.com/company/oura.md)[ŌURA](https://jobicy.com/company/oura.md) # Senior Director of Engineering Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/oura.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md)SalaryUSD 212,500–308k / yrDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceDirectorPublished1 Nov 2026Apply before1 Dec 2026Listing views49Application actions3Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. ŌURA is seeking a senior engineering executive to lead the Women’s Health software engineering organization and deliver trusted consumer-health experiences. The role manages through engineering managers, directors, and technical leaders while setting strategy, operating models, quality standards, and organizational priorities. It requires close partnership with Product, Design, Science, Data Science, Clinical, and Regulatory teams in a high-trust, clinically adjacent domain. A major mandate is to implement AI-native and agentic engineering workflows without compromising delivery, reliability, privacy, or member outcomes. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a high-stakes senior leadership position requiring both organizational transformation and consistent delivery of consumer health products. Success depends on executive-level judgment across engineering, product outcomes, AI adoption, regulated-domain trust, and talent leadership. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$260,250US market range (per year)$220k–$330k0$363.00k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses US pay ranges of $212,500–$308,000. Although the posting does not explicitly state a cadence, yearly compensation is inferred from the full-time US senior-director context and the magnitude of the stated ranges. A reasonable estimated US market range for a Senior Director of Software Engineering in consumer health is $220,000–$330,000 per year. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [Engineering leadership](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Engineering%20leadership.md)[Software engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Software%20engineering.md)[People management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=People%20management.md)[Organizational transformation](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Organizational%20transformation.md)[Product strategy](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Product%20strategy.md)[Consumer software](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Consumer%20software.md)[AI-native development](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AI-native%20development.md)[Agentic workflows](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Agentic%20workflows.md)[Technical strategy](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Technical%20strategy.md)[Cross-functional leadership](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Cross-functional%20leadership.md)[Architecture](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Architecture.md)[Data privacy](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Data%20privacy.md)[Reliability engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Reliability%20engineering.md)[Talent development](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Talent%20development.md)[Health technology](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Health%20technology.md) Sample interview questionsHow have you led an engineering organization through a major operating-model or technology transformation while sustaining product delivery?I begin by defining the business outcomes, the target operating model, and a small set of measurable leading indicators. I sequence the change through pilot teams, communicate trade-offs transparently, and protect critical delivery commitments with clear ownership and decision rights. I then scale proven practices while using regular feedback from teams and partners to address friction early. How would you evaluate and introduce AI-native or agentic workflows across a software engineering organization? I would identify high-value workflows such as code generation, testing, incident analysis, documentation, and developer support, then run controlled pilots with measurable baselines. Adoption should include security, privacy, quality, and human-review guardrails rather than treating AI use as an end in itself. The successful workflows would be standardized through tooling, training, and outcome metrics such as cycle time, defect rates, and developer experience. How do you balance speed, technical quality, privacy, and trust when building consumer health products? I make the trade-offs explicit through product risk assessment, architecture reviews, and shared success metrics with product, clinical, and regulatory partners. Teams should distinguish reversible experiments from decisions that affect safety, privacy, or long-term platform integrity. For sensitive capabilities, I favor strong validation, observability, and staged releases while maintaining clear member-value goals. Describe how you build a strong leadership bench when managing through managers and directors. I establish clear expectations for leaders around outcomes, talent development, execution, and collaboration, then provide frequent coaching and candid feedback. I create opportunities for leaders to own meaningful cross-functional initiatives and assess readiness through observed behavior, not tenure alone. Succession planning, calibrated performance discussions, and deliberate hiring complete the leadership pipeline. What metrics would you use to determine whether the Women’s Health engineering organization is succeeding? I would combine member-outcome metrics with delivery, quality, and organizational-health indicators. Examples include adoption and retention for priority experiences, reliability and defect trends, time to learn and ship, privacy or compliance findings, team engagement, and leadership-bench strength. The metric set should be reviewed with cross-functional partners so that engineering optimization remains tied to meaningful member impact. Opportunity details ## 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](https://ouraring.com/about-us) 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 are looking for a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead Women’s Health engineering at Oura.Women’s Health is one of Oura’s most important opportunities to help members understand, navigate, and act on their health across meaningful life stages and conditions. In this role, you will lead the engineering organization that turns that ambition into trusted, high-impact consumer experiences.This is a role for a product-minded engineering leader who can do two things at once: ship key initiatives that make meaningful progress toward member outcomes, and transform how the organization builds software through AI-native and agentic workflows.You will partner closely with Product, Design, Science, Data Science, Clinical, Regulatory, and other functions. You will shape the engineering strategy, organization, operating model, and leadership system needed to build excellent products at scale. ### What You Will Do: * Lead and develop the Women’s Health software engineering organization through engineering managers, directors, and key technical leaders. * Partner with Product, Design, Science, Data Science, Clinical, and Regulatory leaders to turn member needs and product strategy into a coherent, high-quality roadmap. * Ship the highest-priority initiatives and ensure they make meaningful progress toward member outcomes—not only delivery milestones. * Build an organization that consistently ships excellent consumer software with measurable impact for members, by creating clarity across team ownership, architecture, dependencies, decision-making, and priorities. * Lead organizational transformation while maintaining delivery momentum and team health. * Set and consistently reinforce a high performance bar across Engineering and the broader Women’s Health organization, including outcomes, technical quality, execution, collaboration, and leadership. * Define and implement an AI-native approach to product development and software engineering, including practical use of AI and agents, quality guardrails, and measurable outcomes. * Build a strong leadership bench through hiring, coaching, feedback, talent development, and thoughtful succession planning. * Represent engineering in senior cross-functional planning and help Oura make sound trade-offs between speed, quality, trust, and long-term leverage. This is a remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based in San Francisco, NY or Boston. ### What you’ll bring * 10–15 years of experience in building software products, ideally 5+ years in leadership. * A track record of shipping consumer software that created meaningful, measurable impact for users or members. * Experience building and scaling a strong product-building organization, including hiring and developing leaders and managing through managers. * Experience leading organizational transformation: changing structures, operating models, culture, or ways of working while maintaining delivery. * A clear and practical perspective on how to build a winning software organization in the age of AI and agents. * Excellent people leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, talent development, and inclusive leadership. * Strong technical and product judgment, with enough depth to make sound trade-offs across architecture, platform, data, quality, reliability, privacy, and speed. * Genuine interest in Women’s Health and the motivation to learn the domain deeply and serve members with empathy. ### Nice to have: * Experience in Women’s Health, reproductive health, menopause, postpartum, fertility, or adjacent health domains. * Experience with regulated, clinically adjacent, or high-trust consumer products. * Experience with wearables, connected devices, mobile products, or longitudinal health data. * Experience leading AI-enabled product development or AI-native engineering transformation. * Experience leading distributed, international, or cross-time-zone organizations. ### Benefits At Ōura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Ōura 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 Ōura 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 Ōura 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 $261,800 – $308,000 Region 2 $236,300 – $278,000 Region 3 $212,500 – $250,000 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). 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. Disclaimer: Beware of fake job offers! We’ve been alerted to scammers posing as ŌURA recruiters, especially for remote roles. 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