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.
Oura is looking for a senior-level UX Researcher to help improve the experience of discovering, evaluating, purchasing, and managing Oura products and Membership online. This role will initially focus on the global DTC eCommerce experience, with opportunities to support Membership and Commercial/B2B experiences as the work expands.
What You Will Do:- Spearhead holistic user research initiatives spanning digital commerce and enterprise portals, directing efforts from initial scope formulation to strategic actionable guidance.
- Design and execute user interviews, usability evaluations, concept testing, card sorting, alongside diverse qualitative evaluation techniques.
- Collaborate closely with Design, Product Management, Engineering, Insights, Marketing, and Commercial partners to surface critical research priorities.
- Synthesize investigative work into impactful deliverables, such as journey maps, entry point analysis, Jobs to Be Done, page-level goals, and friction mapping.
- Assess user experiences by integrating qualitative findings with analytics metrics, experimentation outcomes, and heuristic standards.
- Articulate themes effectively to leadership, tying customer motivations directly to overarching business and product metrics.
- Elevate internal research operations through scalable frameworks, standardized templates, and lightweight workflows that streamline design validation choices.
This is a remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based in San Francisco, San Diego, or Boston.
What you'll bring:- 5+ years of dedicated user research practice, showcasing a proven history of guiding end-to-end studies that directly shape product strategy.
- Proven background evaluating digital commerce platforms alongside B2B, enterprise, SaaS, or complex web applications.
- Exceptional qualitative research mastery—specifically in-depth interviews, usability studies, core synthesis, and distilling key insights responsibly from small user cohorts.
- Modern AI-driven methodology: Skillfully leverages cutting-edge AI tools to streamline participant recruitment, session moderation, transcript analysis, research repositories, and knowledge sharing—while maintaining rigorous standards around data privacy, ethics, and study integrity.
- Deep expertise deploying customer journey mapping, Jobs to Be Done, page-level objective definitions, heuristic reviews, and comprehensive experience audits.
- Adept at unifying qualitative insights with quantitative metrics, telemetry, and experiment results to form cohesive narratives.
- Outstanding workshop facilitation and communication abilities that build consensus across executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Practical exposure to centralized research repositories, behavioral analytics suites, experimentation tools, and scalable research operations.
- Track record of establishing or scaling a high-impact research function within rapidly expanding organizations or agile startup environments.
- Co-authored with Glean
- Experience researching health, wellness, digital health, healthcare, or wearable technology products.
- Experience working across international markets and diverse user groups.
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
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- An Ōura Ring of your own during your tenure
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off *prorated
- Paid sick 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: $172,550 - $203,000
Region 2: $158,950 - $187,000
Region 3: $147,900 - $174,000
A recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location.
We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), 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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Skills Required
- 5+ years of dedicated user research experience
- Proven experience leading end-to-end research studies that shape product strategy
- Experience evaluating digital commerce platforms and B2B, enterprise, SaaS, or complex web applications
- Advanced qualitative research skills, including interviews, usability studies, synthesis, and insight development
- Ability to use AI tools for research while maintaining data privacy, ethics, and study integrity
- Expertise in journey mapping, Jobs to Be Done, page-level objectives, heuristic reviews, and experience audits
- Ability to combine qualitative insights with quantitative metrics, telemetry, and experimentation results
- Workshop facilitation and communication skills for executive and cross-functional audiences
- Experience with research repositories, behavioral analytics, experimentation tools, and research operations
- Track record of establishing or scaling a research function in a growing or agile organization
- Experience with health, wellness, digital health, healthcare, or wearable technology products
- Experience working across international markets and diverse user groups
Ōura Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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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