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.
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.
As the Staff Manager of Global Trade Compliance at Oura, you will lead the global trade compliance function, ensuring adherence to all applicable import/export laws and regulations across various regions. You will play a key role in aligning our compliance strategies with Oura’s growth initiatives. This position requires a strategic leader who can build and maintain strong relationships with external service providers, government officials, and internal teams to ensure seamless compliance processes.
What You Will Do:
- Global Trade Compliance Strategy: Develop and implement a comprehensive trade compliance roadmap for Oura, ensuring alignment with global regulations and company objectives.
- Regulatory Expertise: Stay updated on trade compliance laws, rules, and regulations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Regularly review sanctions and embargoes to ensure ongoing compliance.
- Risk Management: Identify and mitigate compliance risks by implementing effective processes. Monitor regulatory changes and adjust company processes accordingly.
- Operational Efficiency: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and regulatory constraints, and work with external partners to optimize compliance while maximizing operational efficiency.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate w/ Sales, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, and external partners to develop compliant strategies that enable Oura's growth.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Foster communication and build strong relationships across Oura’s functions, suppliers, and regulatory bodies.
- Internal Audits & Compliance Improvement: Conduct internal audits, provide feedback, and offer guidance to maintain and improve compliance standards.
- Commodity Jurisdiction & Classification: Perform commodity jurisdiction and classification, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Export/Import Licensing: Coordinate with program personnel to gather necessary information for export/import applications and ensure that business and customer requirements align with licenses or agreements.
- Reporting & Analysis: Support reporting and analysis of Global Trade Compliance data for local, global, reporting. This includes maintaining trade metrics, conducting internal self-audits (Self-Testing), and ensuring adherence to customs and import/export requirements.
- Hazmat Compliance: Ensure compliance with all hazardous materials transportation regulations. Manage and oversee hazmat training, documentation, and certification processes.
Requirements:
- This position requires 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Customs Brokerage License: Strongly preferred.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Advanced knowledge of international trade regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). A strong understanding of U.S. Customs regulations is essential.
- Process Development: Proven experience in developing and strengthening global trade compliance processes, including building governance infrastructure.
- Industry Expertise: Technical expertise in the wearable industry is preferred.
- Travel: Ability and willingness to travel up to 15%.
You will fit to our team if you also have:
- Leadership Experience: Proven track record of working closely with executive leadership in a global environment.
- Analytical & Strategic Thinking: Strong organizational, analytical, and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to see the big picture.
- Collaboration: A collaborative nature with the ability to work effectively in a team environment across different time zones.
- Project Management: Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail.
- Independence: Proven ability to work independently, often under time-critical conditions.
- Security Clearance: Eligible to obtain and maintain a personal security clearance as necessary.
Benefits
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- An Oura Ring of your own + employee discounts for friends & family
- Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers
Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. 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 (SF Bay Area): $170,000 - $200,000
A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your location.
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.
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
- 8+ years of relevant global trade compliance experience
- Customs Brokerage License
- Advanced knowledge of international trade regulations, including EAR and ITAR
- Strong understanding of U.S. Customs regulations
- Experience developing and strengthening global trade compliance processes and governance infrastructure
- Technical expertise in the wearable industry
- Experience working with executive leadership in a global environment
- Strong organizational, analytical, strategic thinking, collaboration, project management, and independent work skills
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a personal security clearance as necessary
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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