Director, Mechanical Sourcing

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We are looking for a Director, Global Mechanical Sourcing to lead the strategy, execution, and development of Oura’s global mechanical sourcing organization. This leader will own mechanical sourcing across current and future hardware programs, with global responsibility spanning the established Finland and US teams and broader regional supplier partnerships. This is an established function with strong leaders and processes already in place. The Director will align mechanical sourcing strategy across team based in the US, Finland, and Asia; connect priorities across the portfolio; improve decision-making; and be accountable for the function’s results as Oura grows - building on what is working while addressing the gaps that require a stronger global approach. The Director will lead through existing leaders and teams, develop sourcing talent, strengthen the operating model, and raise the bar for analytical standards and commercial discipline. The role will work closely with Product, Industrial Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Program Management, Finance, Legal, Logistics, and senior leadership. This role is for a leader who can set direction, stay close enough to the details to know what is really happening, lean in to contribute directly as necessary, and make decisions when the information is incomplete. The work will require resilience with suppliers, direct communication, and good judgment. The right leader will manage effectively up and down, stay accountable for outcomes, and invest deeply in the growth of their direct reports. They will hold themselves and the team to a high standard of integrity, collaboration, and follow-through. This is a hybrid role requiring someone to work 2-3 days a week out of our San Francisco office. What You Will Do Set the global mechanical sourcing strategy • Define and execute a multi-year global mechanical sourcing strategy aligned to Oura’s product roadmap, margin goals, quality standards, launch plans, resilience requirements, and manufacturing footprint. • Set supplier architecture across regions, technologies, and production stages, including preferred suppliers, second sources, geographic diversification, and capability-development priorities. • Create or iterate category strategies for key mechanical commodities such as CNC, injection molding, stamping, MIM, die casting, surface finishing, coatings, structural components, die cuts, softgoods, and related packaging categories where applicable. • Translate market conditions, technology developments, supplier capacity, geopolitical exposure, and cost drivers into clear recommendations for senior leadership. • Build a global mechanical sourcing roadmap that aligns priorities, supplier architecture, and tradeoffs across regions, building on existing strategies and processes while closing the observed gaps. Lead and develop the global team • Lead the global mechanical sourcing organization through its existing leaders, aligning regional priorities and setting clear outcomes and decision rights across regions, commodities, programs, and supplier relationships. • Set a high bar for performance, decision quality, communication, and follow-through while creating an environment where people can do their best work. • Build and execute development plans for managers and individual contributors, including coaching, feedback, career paths, succession planning, and opportunities for expanded scope. • Assess organizational capability and capacity against Oura’s product roadmap; hire, structure, and develop the team as the business grows. • Set a common operating cadence with consistent mechanisms for strategy reviews, supplier performance, risk escalation, negotiation planning, and executive updates. • Build a strong working culture across geographies, challenge the status quo with respect, and help the team stay focused when the work gets difficult. Bring analytical rigor to cost and value decisions • Establish a fact base for mechanical cost and value decisions, including should-cost models, supplier benchmarks, cost-driver analysis, total-cost-of-ownership analysis, and scenario planning. • Create visibility into mechanical cost trajectories across the product lifecycle and partner with Finance and Product Cost teams to connect sourcing actions to gross margin and business plans. • Use data to evaluate supplier proposals, manufacturing alternatives, volume assumptions, tooling and NRE, yield, labor, material, freight, payment terms, and other total-cost drivers. • Standardize scorecards and review mechanisms that make supplier performance, cost, quality, delivery, capacity, responsiveness, and risk visible to the right stakeholders. • Make sure recommendations are grounded in clear assumptions, evidence, and a realistic path to execution. Build vendor strategy and supplier performance • Own supplier selection and portfolio decisions for mechanical components and assemblies across NPI and sustaining programs. • Develop executive-level relationships with strategic suppliers and contract manufacturing partners across North America, Europe, and Asia. • Lead supplier capability assessments, onboarding, qualification, business reviews, corrective-action plans, and long-term partner development. • Set expectations for supplier performance, capacity planning, quality, responsiveness, transparency, and continuous improvement. • Build supply continuity plans that address concentration, geographic risk, capacity constraints, financial health, tooling ownership, materials, and contingency options. • Partner with Engineering and suppliers on DFM, design-for-cost, manufacturing capability, process innovation, and tradeoffs that improve product performance and production readiness. Lead complex negotiations • Lead or oversee high-impact negotiations covering unit cost, tooling and NRE, capacity commitments, lead times, payment terms, minimum order quantities, price-adjustment mechanisms, warranty, E&O and liability, intellectual property, and other commercial terms. • Prepare negotiation strategies grounded in should-cost analysis, supplier economics, market alternatives, business priorities, and a clear understanding of Oura’s negotiating position and constraints. • Represent Oura credibly with supplier executives and align internal stakeholders before entering critical commercial discussions. • Secure outcomes that support Oura’s business goals, including cost competitiveness, supply assurance, investment, flexibility, quality, and launch execution. • Ensure agreements and commitments are documented, governed, and translated into measurable supplier actions. Own execution across the hardware lifecycle • Be accountable for operational and commercial outcomes across the mechanical portfolio, including NPI, and ensure escalations are resolved through the right leaders. • Stay close to critical supplier, build-readiness, capacity, quality, cost, and commercial issues. Personally lean in when impact or urgency calls for it, and otherwise drive decisions to closure through the accountable leaders. • Ensure sourcing strategy is integrated into design reviews, supplier selection, development builds, manufacturing readiness, capacity planning, and launch decisions. • Work with Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, Finance, and Legal to resolve cross-functional issues and make tradeoffs that protect cost, quality, schedule, resilience, customer experience, and brand. • Improve sourcing processes, templates, systems, and governance so the team can move with speed while maintaining decision quality and control. • Provide concise, fact-based updates to senior leadership on strategy, cost, risk, supplier performance, decisions, and support needed. Requirements We would love to have you on our team if you have: • 12+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, supply chain, operations, manufacturing, or a related field, with significant experience in mechanical components and assemblies. • Experience leading global sourcing teams across multiple regions, including managing effectively through leaders, developing direct reports, and building strong, accountable teams. • Deep experience with mechanical manufacturing processes such as CNC, injection molding, stamping, MIM, die casting, surface finishing, adhesives, die cuts, softgoods, or related technologies. • Experience in consumer electronics, wearables, medical devices, or another product business with complex, miniaturized hardware. • Experience owning category strategy, supplier architecture, and day-to-day supplier execution. • Strong analytical skills, including should-cost modeling, cost-driver analysis, supplier benchmarking, financial analysis, scenario planning, and total-cost-of-ownership evaluation. • A proven record of leading complex negotiations with supplier and contract manufacturing executives across cost, tooling, capacity, quality, liability, and long-term commercial terms. • Experience supporting multiple concurrent NPI programs through development, ramp, mass production, and sustaining, with a track record of personally engaging in critical operating issues when the business needs it. • Strong understanding of DFM, supplier qualification, manufacturing readiness, quality systems, supply continuity planning, and the operational and commercial escalation paths needed to keep NPI programs moving. • Executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to turn complex data and tradeoffs into clear recommendations and decisions. • The judgment to balance cost, quality, schedule, resilience, innovation, customer experience, and business value. • The ability to operate effectively across cultures, time zones, and functions in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment. • A leadership style that is direct, accountable, collaborative, and grounded in high standards for themselves and the people they lead. • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally approximately 25–30% as needed. Preferred qualifications • Experience leading mechanical sourcing for wearables, smart devices, or other high-volume consumer hardware. • Experience working across both European and US-based engineering, sourcing, and supplier organizations. • Experience with packaging, finishing, coatings, adhesives, softgoods, or other adjacent mechanical categories. • Experience with supplier development, value engineering, design-to-cost, or manufacturing process innovation. • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field. A master’s degree is a plus. This is a hybrid role • The candidate should be based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to come into the office regularly. This role will work closely with colleagues in Finland and other global locations. 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. 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