Design Leader, Software Design

Responsibilities

• ▹Manage software design teams, overseeing multiple designers and design leads
• ▹Mentor and develop designers at all levels through regular 1:1s, career conversations and honest feedback
• ▹Define a coherent design vision for Oura's mobile and web experiences and make it concrete and actionable
• ▹Raise the quality of work through critiques and working sessions
• ▹Define and steward the design system together with design leads
• ▹Partner with product and engineering leadership on roadmap priorities while keeping a distinct design perspective
• ▹Play an active role in recruiting, hiring and onboarding designers
• ▹Lead initiatives to incorporate 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 organisation
• ▹A portfolio that demonstrates sustained ownership of complex, multi-surface experiences with clear evidence of your own design thinking
• ▹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 craft and execution on complex, multi-platform products, and in connecting design work to clear product outcomes
• ▹Strong evidence of 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
• ▹A history of making the teams around you better through mentorship and cultural contribution
• ▹Experience owning or co-owning a consumer design system and evolving it to serve a scaling product
• ▹Fluency with high-fidelity interaction prototyping that engineering can build from
• ▹Experience working with user researchers as partners
• ▹Curiosity about AI tools and their effect on design practice
• ▹Experience navigating the intersection of product design and brand

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salary
• ▹Lunch benefit
• ▹Wellness benefit
• ▹Flexible working hours
• ▹An Oura ring of your own
• ▹Wellness time off

About the company

The Oura Ring and its connected app help people understand their readiness, activity and sleep quality.