Our mission at ŌURA 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.
Oura is seeking a Hardware Interaction Designer early in their career to join the Interaction Architecture design team to help create experiences that connect our members more deeply to their health and wellbeing. In this role, with close team support and mentorship, you'll collaborate with Industrial Design, Engineering, Product, and Science teams to contribute to intuitive and delightful interactions between Oura's hardware and software ecosystems.
About the team: Interaction Architecture is an interdisciplinary team that bridges hardware and software using a blend of design and engineering to craft cohesive experiences. We unify ŌURA's design language across physical and digital products and enable cross-functional teams to turn new ideas and technologies into real-world solutions.
What You Will Do:
- Contribute to well-scoped interaction design and prototyping tasks for physical touchpoints (buttons, lights, haptic feedback, sensors) to ensure seamless integration between hardware and software.
- Partner with Industrial Design, Software Product Design, and User Research teams on defined user flows and integrated physical-digital touchpoints.
- Support research and usability testing efforts to gather insights, identify pain points, and refine interaction flows.
- Develop digital and physical prototypes using tools such as Figma, Arduino, CAD, or custom tools to validate concepts and answer specific design questions.
- Apply established hardware interaction patterns, system guidelines, and design principles to ensure consistency across hardware and software.
- Communicate progress, questions, dependencies, and risks early and clearly with cross-functional project team members.
- Demonstrate strong attention to detail, craft, and follow-through, actively incorporating feedback to elevate work quality over the course of projects.
- This is a San Francisco-based role that involves regular interaction and collaboration with Oura colleagues in Finland and across the US. Regular travel to our Finland and San Diego offices is expected. Finland's Eastern European Time Zone is 10 hours ahead of US Pacific Time (e.g., 7 AM PT = 5 PM EET); regular meetings for this role can occur between 7–9 AM PT.
This is a hybrid role out of our San Francisco office.
What you'll bring:
- 1–3 years of experience designing physical-digital interactions for consumer-facing hardware products or connected ecosystems.
- A portfolio demonstrating foundational interaction design skills across physical interfaces and multisensory feedback (e.g., haptics, gesture, light).
- Solid understanding of foundational human factors, hardware affordances, and physical capabilities/constraints.
- Hands-on familiarity with digital and physical prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Arduino, CAD, AI tools).
- Strong communication, collaboration, and listening skills with a coachable mindset and openness to feedback.
- Familiarity with mobile platforms and how physical hardware integrates with software.
- A background in multimedia design, industrial design, product design, or a related field (e.g., interaction design, HCI, architecture, or creative technology)
- Experience designing for small-screen, screenless, or wearable devices (e.g., rings, watches, earbuds)
- Experience designing haptic patterns, LED/light behaviors, or audio cues
- Basic electronics or physical computing skills (e.g., Arduino, Raspberry Pi, sensors, microcontrollers)
- Familiarity with 3D modeling or CAD tools (e.g., Fusion 360, Rhino, SolidWorks, Blender)
At Ōura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Ōura 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 Ōura 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
Ōura 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 $127,500 - $150,000
ŌURA 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 ŌURA 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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Skills Required
- 1-3 years of experience designing physical-digital interactions for consumer hardware products or connected ecosystems
- Portfolio demonstrating foundational interaction design skills across physical interfaces and multisensory feedback, such as haptics, gesture, or light
- Understanding of human factors, hardware affordances, and physical capabilities and constraints
- Hands-on familiarity with digital and physical prototyping tools, such as Figma, Arduino, CAD, or AI tools
- Strong communication, collaboration, and listening skills with a coachable mindset and openness to feedback
- Familiarity with mobile platforms and physical hardware integration with software
- Background in multimedia design, industrial design, product design, interaction design, HCI, architecture, or creative technology
- Experience designing for small-screen, screenless, or wearable devices
- Experience designing haptic patterns, LED or light behaviors, or audio cues
- Basic electronics or physical computing skills, such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, sensors, or microcontrollers
- Familiarity with 3D modeling or CAD tools, such as Fusion 360, Rhino, SolidWorks, or Blender
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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