Packaging Program Manager

About Oura

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.

Job Description

Oura 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.

The 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.

This is a remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based in San Francisco, San Diego, or Boston.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end packaging program execution for new product development, special editions, and sustaining changes from concept through launch and post-launch support.
• Build and manage integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and decision logs for packaging deliverables across engineering, operations, and commercial teams.
• Partner across Packaging Engineering, Product Management, Design, Hardware Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Creative, and Marketing to align technical, business, and brand requirements.
• Translate product, technical, and brand requirements into executable packaging plans and drive packaging readiness through development gates, validation builds, ramp, and launch.
• Own cross-functional coordination of key packaging technical deliverables, including structure, materials, artwork, labeling, specifications, tooling, pack-out, and supplier feasibility.
• Drive technical packaging development and validation including design reviews, material selection, manufacturability, tolerance alignment, transit and environmental testing, line trials, and pilot builds.
• Ensure packaging solutions meet the product requirements including protection, reliability, regulatory, sustainability, cost, manufacturability, distribution, and customer unboxing experience.
• Manage packaging-related change control, specification and artwork revisions, BOM alignment, issue resolution, and cross-functional tradeoff discussions throughout development and sustaining.
• Identify 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.
• Track 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.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in program management, technical program management, or packaging program management in consumer electronics, hardware, or related physical product environments.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional programs from concept through mass production.