{"id":1258274,"url":"https://alion.io/job/oura-packaging-program-manager","title":"Packaging Program Manager","company":{"id":63542,"name":"Oura","domain":"oura.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/oura","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":15,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.267,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":72,"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":172550,"max":203000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":203000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-05-21T21:59:14Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-28T04:43:37Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":129,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":129},"description":"Our mission at Oura 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.\nEmpowering 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. \nOura is looking for a Packaging Program Manager to lead the development and delivery of packaging across new product introduction and sustaining initiatives. This role drives cross-functional execution from concept through mass production, ensuring packaging solutions meet product, brand, cost, quality, sustainability, regulatory, and supply chain requirements.\nThe ideal candidate brings strong program management discipline, strong packaging development experience, and the ability to align highly cross-functional teams around clear plans, decisions, risks, and milestones. They operate comfortably in fast-moving hardware environments and know how to balance customer experience, operational readiness, and business goals.\nThis is role is based in San Francisco.\nWhat you will do: \nLead end-to-end packaging program execution for new product development, special editions, and sustaining changes from concept through launch and post-launch support.\nBuild and manage integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and decision logs for packaging deliverables across engineering, operations, and commercial teams.\nPartner across Packaging Engineering, Product Management, Design, Hardware Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Creative, and Marketing to align technical, business, and brand requirements.\nTranslate product, technical, and brand requirements into executable packaging plans and drive packaging readiness through development gates, validation builds, ramp, and launch.\nOwn cross-functional coordination of key packaging technical deliverables, including structure, materials, artwork, labeling, specifications, tooling, pack-out, and supplier feasibility.\nDrive technical packaging development and validation including design reviews, material selection, manufacturability, tolerance alignment, transit and environmental testing, line trials, and pilot builds.\nEnsure packaging solutions meet the product requirements including protection, reliability, regulatory, sustainability, cost, manufacturability, distribution, and customer unboxing experience.\nManage packaging-related change control, specification and artwork revisions, BOM alignment, issue resolution, and cross-functional tradeoff discussions throughout development and sustaining.\nIdentify packaging program and technical risks early, drive mitigation plans to closure, and coordinate external partners and suppliers to deliver materials, tooling, specifications, and logistics on time.\nTrack cost, quality, schedule, readiness, and technical maturity metrics, and manage the overall packaging tracker to improve packaging materials, waste reduction, regulatory alignment, and execution discipline.\nQualifications:\n7+ years of experience in program management, technical program management, or packaging program management in consumer electronics, hardware, or related physical product environments.\nProven experience leading cross-functional programs from concept through production ramp and launch.\nStrong understanding of packaging development processes, validation milestones, tooling, artwork release, supplier readiness, and manufacturing execution.\nDemonstrated ability to manage complex schedules, dependencies, and cross-functional decision-making.\nStrong executive communication skills with the ability to present clear status, risks, and recovery plans.\nExperience working with external vendors, contract manufacturers, and global supply chain partners.\nStrong problem-solving skills and sound judgment in ambiguous environments.\nHighly organized, detail-oriented, and effective at driving accountability across teams.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience supporting premium consumer products with high brand and customer experience expectations.\nExperience with sustainable packaging strategy and execution.\nFamiliarity with manufacturing builds, NPI processes, and go-to-market readiness for hardware products.\nExperience partnering with creative, brand, and industrial design teams on packaging development.\nExperience working in fast-scaling companies and balancing speed with process rigor.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nPackaging programs hit major milestones with clear ownership and predictable execution.\nCross-functional teams stay aligned on priorities, risks, and decisions.\nPackaging is ready for builds, ramp, and launch without avoidable last-minute escalations.\nSolutions meet customer, brand, operational, cost, and quality expectations.\nLeadership has high confidence in program status and recovery planning\nBenefits \nAt Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.\nWhat we offer:\nCompetitive salary and equity packages\nHealth, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources\nAn Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family\n20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off\nPaid sick leave and parental leave\nOura 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.\nRegion 1 $172,550 - $203,000\nRegion 2 $ 158,950 - $187,000\nRegion 3 $147,900 - $174,000\nA recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location.\nWe 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).\nOura 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 Oura 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.\nWe 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.\nDisclaimer: Beware of fake job offers!\nWe’ve been alerted to scammers posing as ŌURA recruiters, especially for remote roles. Please note:\nOur jobs are listed only on the ŌURA Careers page and trusted job boards.\nWe will never ask for personal information like ID or payment for equipment upfront.\nOfficial offers are sent through Docusign after a verbal offer, not via text or email.\nStay cautious and protect your personal details.\nTo all recruitment agencies: Oura does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Oura employees, or any other organization's location. 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