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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. \nRole Summary\nWe are seeking a Senior Forecast Analyst - Demand Planning to help strengthen Ōura’s forecasting capabilities through better analytics, improved data integration, and more scalable demand methodologies.\nIn this senior individual contributor role, you will act as the analytical engine behind demand planning - improving how we translate signals into forecasts, building stronger statistical baselines, and helping the organization move toward more advanced machine learning-enabled forecasting over time. You will work closely with Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Data, Finance, and Systems partners to improve forecast quality, modernize inputs and tooling, and build decision-ready insights that help the business plan with greater confidence.\nThis role is ideal for someone who is deeply quantitative, highly practical, and excited to apply data science and analytical rigor to real planning decisions in a fast-growing consumer hardware business.\nWhat You Will Do\nForecast Methodology & Model Development\nDevelop, improve, and operationalize forecasting methodologies that increase accuracy, responsiveness, and scalability across Ōura’s planning processes.\nBuild and refine statistical baseline forecasts using historical demand, seasonality, promotions, product transitions, channel mix, and other key business drivers.\nHelp drive Ōura’s evolution toward machine learning-enabled forecasting by identifying the highest-value use cases, testing approaches, and translating outputs into practical planning decisions.\nEvaluate forecast performance using error diagnostics, bias analysis, and other relevant metrics, and turn findings into clear recommendations for improvement.\nStandardize forecasting logic, assumptions, and documentation so methods are transparent, repeatable, and easier to scale.\nData Integration & Planning Infrastructure\nPartner with Data and Systems teams to improve the structure, reliability, and integration of demand planning inputs across forecasting workflows.\nHelp connect data across shipments, POS, inventory, promotions, product lifecycle events, and other planning inputs so teams can work from a more complete and trusted demand signal.\nIdentify opportunities to reduce manual work and improve planning speed through better tooling, automation, and analytical design.\nSupport business requirements and validation for planning system enhancements, ensuring analytical and forecasting use cases are well represented.\nDecision Support & Cross-Functional Analytics\nBuild scenario models, dashboards, and analytical tools that help the business understand demand risk, upside, downside, and operational implications.\nSupport monthly, quarterly, and long-range planning cycles with clear, decision-ready analysis.\nPartner closely with Demand Planning and Supply Chain to ensure forecasting outputs are actionable within supply, inventory, and execution processes.\nTranslate complex analytical findings into concise business narratives for technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nBring structure to ambiguous forecasting problems by combining analytical depth with sound business judgment.\nContinuous Improvement\nImprove core forecasting metrics, reporting, and workflows so the team can focus more on decisions and less on manual data gathering.\nHelp define the future-state demand planning capability, including stronger baselines, better model governance, and more scalable analytics.\nContribute to a culture of experimentation and evidence-based planning by testing new methods and measuring their business impact.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nMust-Have Qualifications\n6+ years of experience in forecasting, demand planning, analytics, data science, operations research, or a closely related field.\nStrong experience building and applying statistical forecasting methods in a business environment.\nAdvanced SQL skills and strong proficiency in Python, R, or a similar analytical programming language used for modeling and forecasting.\nDemonstrated ability to work with large, messy data sets and improve data quality, data structure, and analytical reliability.\nExperience developing forecasting models, evaluating model performance, and using diagnostics to improve outcomes over time.\nStrong understanding of planning and operational processes, ideally in consumer products, hardware, retail, or supply chain environments.\nAbility to translate analytical work into clear business recommendations that influence planning decisions and cross-functional action.\nExperience partnering effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across functions.\nStrong ownership mindset and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving processes and priorities.\nNice-to-Have Qualifications\nExperience with machine learning approaches for time-series forecasting or demand sensing in production or near-production settings.\nFamiliarity with planning platforms, BI tools, and modern data environments used in operational planning.\nBackground in consumer electronics, wearables, premium hardware, or subscription-adjacent businesses.\nExperience helping design or scale forecasting processes in a high-growth company.\nExperience with causal modeling, experimentation, or advanced scenario planning techniques.\nSuccess in This Role\nForecasting at Ōura becomes more scalable, data-driven, and reliable through stronger baseline methods and clearer performance measurement.\nDemand Planning and Supply Chain teams have better inputs, better visibility into risk, and greater confidence in forecast-based decisions.\nDemand data becomes more integrated, more trustworthy, and easier to use across planning workflows.\nNew methodologies improve forecast quality without adding unnecessary complexity to the planning process.\nGrowth Opportunity\nThis is a high-impact individual contributor role with meaningful ownership over forecasting methodology, demand analytics, and planning infrastructure. Over time, this role can expand its influence across forecasting strategy, planning systems, and analytical capability-building as Ōura continues to scale.\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\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA. We are only considering candidates who currently reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.\nRegion 1 $143,000 - 169,000\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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