Design Leader, Software Design

We are looking for a Design Leader of Software Design to lead the end-to-end experience of Oura’s software products, with a primary focus on our member-facing mobile and web experiences. This role sits alongside our most senior individual contributors and is expected to operate in high ambiguity, set a clear design vision, and create enduring, company-level impact across multiple product areas.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a high-performing design organization; Mentor and develop designers; Set a compelling, coherent design vision; Elevate craft through active participation; Define and steward the design system; Partner with product and engineering without ceding design authority; Build and steward the team; Champion AI-enabled design workflows.

Requirements

Extensive experience (typically 10+ years) in software design, product design, or interaction design for digital products, including significant time in consumer or health tech environments; Proven leadership experience (3+ years) managing and growing UX teams in a product development organization, including setting clear expectations across different levels; A portfolio that demonstrates sustained ownership of complex, multi-surface experiences with clear evidence of your design thinking, not just team output; Deep fluency across interaction design, information architecture, visual hierarchy, motion, and systems thinking; Track record of improving experience quality in measurable ways through engagement signals, satisfaction scores, qualitative research findings, or reduced friction in core user flows; Demonstrated excellence in Operational Excellence (strong craft and execution on complex, multi-platform products) and Impact (connecting software design work to clear product outcomes); Strong evidence of Collaboration and Leadership: building effective cross-functional relationships, influencing senior stakeholders, and creating healthy, inclusive team cultures; Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and facilitating complex design decisions.

Nice to have

Experience working on health, wellness, or other trust-sensitive products where emotional tone, clarity, and credibility must be carefully calibrated; A history of making the teams around you better through mentorship, cultural contribution, and sustained investment in design quality; Experience owning or co-owning a consumer design system and evolving it to serve a scaling product; Fluency with high-fidelity interaction prototyping not just static mocks, but communicating motion, feel, and micro-interactions at a fidelity that engineering can build from; Experience working with user researchers as partners: drawing on their insights to pressure-test and evolve design direction, without owning the research function yourself; Curiosity about AI tools and their effect on design practice with opinions about where human judgment is irreplaceable; Experience navigating the intersection of product design and brand, and knowing when and how to hold the line on quality.

Benefits

Competitive salary; Lunch benefit; Wellness benefit; Flexible working hours; Collaborative, smart teammates; An Oura ring of your own; Wellness Time Off