Director, Corporate Communications

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
201K-236K Annually
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The Role
Leads Oura’s corporate communications strategy, executive communications, media and stakeholder relations, and crisis communications. Advises C-suite executives, shapes the company narrative, prepares leaders for public engagements, builds media and thought-leadership programs, and coordinates messaging across corporate, product, healthcare, science, commercial, and internal communications. The role also oversees awards, speaking opportunities, crisis preparedness, and communications during high-impact business moments.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

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. 

The Director of Corporate Communications will lead the strategy, development, and execution of Oura's corporate, financial, executive, and crisis communications, with opportunities to support product and brand communications. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Global Communications, this role will serve as a senior communications advisor to executive leadership and a strategic partner to leaders across the company.

This leader will shape and advance Oura's external narrative as the company scales, strengthening understanding of our growth, business momentum, product roadmap, mission, science, healthcare strategy, and long-term vision. They’ll ensure that communications across product, brand, science, healthcare, commercial, and corporate storytelling ladder up to a clear, differentiated, and consistent company narrative.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, highly credible communications leader with experience advising C-suite executives and leading corporate, executive, external, internal, and crisis communications at a high-growth or large-scale company. They bring exceptional written, verbal, and strategic-planning capabilities, sound judgment, and the ability to lead through complexity and ambiguity. Experience with consumer technology, healthcare, financial communications, or a company preparing for or navigating a significant corporate milestone is a plus.

This role requires a leader who can translate complex business, health, science, and technology topics into clear, credible stories that build trust with consumers, partners, employees, media, investors, and other key stakeholders while remaining hands-on when the moment demands it.

We prefer candidates in the San Francisco, Bay Area 

What you will do: 

Corporate Communications Strategy and Leadership
  • Own and evolve Oura's corporate communications strategy, ensuring alignment with company priorities, global brand objectives, and business goals.
  • Serve as a senior communications counselor to executive leadership, helping shape company narrative, reputation strategy, and communications priorities.
  • Champion Oura's corporate narrative and ensure it is consistently and effectively communicated across external and internal channels.
  • Set communications strategy for major company milestones, product launches, strategic partnerships, regional activations, business updates, and other high-impact moments.
  • Establish clear communications plans, priorities, success measures, and operating rhythms across the corporate communications function.
  • Lead Oura's awards strategy and oversee applicable conference submissions, speaking opportunities, and external recognition programs.
Executive Communications
  • Lead executive communications efforts, including positioning, message development, talking points, keynote scripts, speeches, presentations, and other high-visibility materials.
  • Prepare Oura executives and senior leaders for media interviews, investor and analyst engagements, speaking opportunities, employee moments, and public appearances.
  • Lead executive media training and support ongoing development of Oura's external spokespeople.
  • Partner with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure leaders communicate with clarity, consistency, and authenticity.
  • Manage the planning and execution of executive communications programs, including logistics, briefing materials, run-of-show documents, and post-event follow-up.
Stakeholder and Media Relations
  • Build and maintain relationships with key media outlets, influencers, analysts, thought leaders, and other stakeholders to drive high-quality coverage and strengthen Oura's reputation.
  • Develop proactive media and thought-leadership strategies across corporate, business, product, science, healthcare, commercial growth, and culture narratives.
  • Collaborate with external agencies and consultants to extend Oura's reach, strengthen media presence, and deliver high-impact campaigns.
  • Build strong partnerships with leaders across product, engineering, commercial, finance, legal, marketing, people, science, and healthcare to align internal and external messaging.
  • Serve as a senior point of contact for corporate PR, brand PR, crisis communications, and media relations inquiries.
Crisis and Issues Communications
  • Own Oura's crisis and issues communications approach, including plans, messaging frameworks, holding statements, FAQs, escalation protocols, and preparedness exercises.
  • Advise executive leadership and cross-functional partners on reputational risk, communications strategy, and response options during sensitive or high-impact situations.
  • Partner with legal, people, product, security, commercial, and executive leadership to assess risk, align messaging, and manage communications during evolving issues.
  • Lead the development and execution of internal and external communications during crisis situations, including media statements, executive talking points, employee communications, and customer-facing responses where applicable.
  • Strengthen organizational readiness through scenario planning, spokesperson preparation, and ongoing refinement of crisis processes.

We would love to have you on our team if you have

  • 10+ years of experience in communications, public relations, or corporate communications, including substantial experience leading external, executive, corporate, and crisis communications.
  • Demonstrated experience setting communications strategy and advising C-suite executives and senior leadership teams.
  • A track record of building and protecting corporate reputation through high-impact communications programs, complex business moments, and sensitive issues.
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling narratives and adapt messaging for different audiences and channels.
  • Experience translating complex business, health, science, or technology topics into clear, credible, and engaging communications.
  • Experience working in the technology, healthcare, consumer lifestyle, or health technology sectors; experience with financial communications is a plus.

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.

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 and 8 days of flexible wellness time off. Paid sick leave and parental leave.  

Compensation 

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: $200,600 - $236,000

To all recruitment agencies: Oura does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Oura employees or any other organization location. Oura is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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)

Oura 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.

We 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.

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To 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. Oura is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Skills Required

  • 10+ years of experience in communications, public relations, or corporate communications
  • Substantial experience leading external, executive, corporate, and crisis communications
  • Experience setting communications strategy and advising C-suite executives and senior leadership teams
  • Track record of building and protecting corporate reputation through high-impact communications programs, complex business moments, and sensitive issues
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to craft compelling narratives and adapt messaging for different audiences and channels
  • Experience translating complex business, health, science, or technology topics into clear, credible, and engaging communications
  • Experience working in technology, healthcare, consumer lifestyle, or health technology sectors
  • Experience with financial communications

Ōura Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ōura and has not been reviewed or approved by Ōura.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Compensation is considered competitive for a midsize, high‑growth company, supported by posted role‑ and location‑based pay bands that signal structured ranges. A public equal‑pay pledge reinforces attention to fairness.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity is a meaningful part of total compensation at a growing company, contributing to perceived upside over time. This ownership component complements base pay in the total rewards mix.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth The package includes substantial PTO, paid holidays, and dedicated wellness days that together exceed a basic time‑off offering. This breadth of time away supports recovery and balance.

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The Company
HQ: Oulu
850 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Oura is an award-winning and fast-growing startup that helps people track all stages of sleep and activity using the Oura Ring and connected app. By providing daily feedback and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we've helped hundreds of thousands of people improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. We’re on a mission to empower every person to own their inner potential, and we’re seeking talented individuals to join us on our journey. JOIN THE OURA TEAM Oura is full of skilled experts and we’re known to share a good laugh every now and then. We always strive to learn more and dig deeper into our research and analytics, to stay engaged and creative in everything we do. We respect our partners, privacy and the scientific method. We are a multi-disciplinary team of over 100 experts in hardware engineering, software development, machine learning, bioscience, sleep, industrial and UX design, production, marketing and customer experience. Oura Health Ltd.’s HQ and major manufacturing facilities are located in Oulu, Finland. Other locations include Helsinki and San Francisco.

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