Type Approval Manager

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 over one million 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 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.

At Oura, we’re on a mission to empower people to improve their health through insight and daily awareness. We are looking for a Type Approval Manager to manage all regulatory verifications and certification procedures for current and new products. You will interface Oura towards verification laboratories and certification bodies. You will participate in product change processes and manage all regulatory considerations thereof. You will also participate in the needed pre-verification work to ensure smooth progress in final type approval flow.

You are located at the crossroads of Oura Operations, R&D, product management and Programs. You navigate smoothly between several aspects of the regulatory landscape - from technical specifications to requirement standards and from TA project management to test procedure ownership.

You will be located in our San Diego or San Francisco office.

What You will do:

• Establish yourself throughout the multi-functional Oura teams as type approval specialist

• Work closely with R&D and operations teams to build and drive Oura regulatory verification efforts
• Develop and implement sufficient processes and tools to successfully manage regulatory and country specific approvals
• Gather and evaluate changes in regulatory space to react and steer appropriate actions for managed and new products
• Own and run all needed regulatory and type approval actions in ongoing product programs and report accordingly to program management, from planning phase to maintenance.
• Function as a regulatory and type approval authority within the company
• Working closely with local or global retail partners and requirements

We would love to have you on our team, if You have:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Type Approvals for electronic products or in a related field
• Experience in working with verification laboratories
• Experience in product engineering in high volume handheld/wearable and/or in consumer products
• Experience with regulatory testing processes and requirements understanding.
• Experience working with Country Specific Approvals
• Excellent communication and team working skills
• Ability to present results orally and in writing, clearly and effectively
• Self-driven and forward-looking attitude
• Good knowledge of English, both written and spoken
• B.Sc or M.Sc in Engineering, Mechanical, Manufacturing or related field
• Willingness to travel

We also appreciate if you have prior experience in any of the following areas:

• Radio Equipment Directive
• FCC / ISED
• Bluetooth SIG
• NFC
• Low voltage directive
• EMC and RF verifications
• Project management

Benefits

At 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.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Oura 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

Oura 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 $126,000 - $157,000
• Region 2 $115,000 - $144,000

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)