Director, PLM

Strategic Leadership & Corporate Scaling

• Digital Transformation Roadmap: Define, lead and maintain a Global PLM strategy that anticipates corporate expansion into new markets, regulatory environments, and complex product portfolios.
• Enterprise Scaling & Governance: Further develop the processes and solutions for data integrity and configuration management that allow for increase in simultaneous development programs and production volume without adding organizational friction.
• Cross-Functional Change Management: Serve as the high-level bridge between Design, R&D, Supply Chain, etc to promote global Engineering Change Order (ECO) workflows and product release gates.

Global Operational Ownership

• Global Configuration Strategy: Own the high-level logic for multi-level Bill of Materials (BOM) management, ensuring seamless data synchronization between international design hubs and global manufacturing partners.
• Strategic Vendor & Budget Management: Manage the executive-level relationships with software providers and implementation partners. Own the PLM CAPEX/OPEX budget and ensure the technology stack delivers a high ROI for the global business.
• Organizational Data Policy: Maintain the global policies for part numbering, revision control, and intellectual property protection to ensure long-term data durability.
• Advanced Digital Innovation: Champion the integration of AI within the product lifecycle to ensure the global PLM ecosystem acts as an intelligent catalyst for business velocity.

Technical & Operational Leadership

• Hands-on Operational Excellence: Demonstrate deep experience in the daily operative tasks of a PLM team—including BOM auditing, ECO processing, and system administration—to effectively mentor the team and identify process bottlenecks from the ground up.
• Team Technical Empowerment: Lead by example in the tactical execution of data migrations and system integrations, ensuring the leadership vision is grounded in the practical realities of hardware and software engineering workflows.
• Process Troubleshooting: Act as a senior escalation point for complex technical data issues, utilizing past operational experience to drive rapid resolution of roadblocks in the product release cycle.

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

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.

San Francisco Salary Range: $226,100 - $266,000

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)

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