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.
We are looking for a Research Project Manager to join Oura’s Research Operations team, supporting strategic partnership projects generating real-world evidence of Oura’s impact and utility across health domains and populations. This role will own multiple outcomes-focused research projects and coordinate closely with Clinical Outcomes, Health Science, Data Science, Engineering, Product, Commercial, Legal, Regulatory, and external partners.We have offices in San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles for those who prefer hybrid or office settings. Oura employees in other major cities (like Boston and New York) occasionally gather informally at local co-working locations.
What You Will Do:- Own a portfolio of commercial, academic, and member-based research studies, from feasibility and scoping through partner coordination, launch, data collection, analysis readiness, reporting, and closeout.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic collaborators in academic, healthcare, CRO, and commercial organizations.
- Establish repeatable processes, workflows, and documentation to enable high-quality research at industry speed and scale in a highly dynamic environment.
- Work with teams of experts to translate research questions into clear study plans, operational requirements, documented decisions, milestones, reporting, and evidence deliverables.
- Coordinate budgets, contracts, partner responsibilities, data-transfer expectations, privacy and consent requirements, timelines, and issue resolution.
- Monitor study progress, surface risks early, and communicate tradeoffs clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
- Support evidence dissemination through reports, publications, abstracts, partner deliverables, clinical education, or commercial and regulatory materials as appropriate.
This is a remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based on the East Coast.
What you'll bring- 3+ years of experience managing human research, clinical research, health outcomes, real-world evidence, healthcare programs, or equivalent partner research programs.
- Experience independently managing external academic, commercial, clinical, CRO, and/or healthcare partnerships.
- Experience taking research or outcomes projects from feasibility and planning through execution, reporting, and closeout.
- Strong project-management, documentation, risk-management, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Familiarity with research data flows, participant privacy and consent, data-quality review, and tools such as spreadsheets, project trackers, survey platforms, EHRs, EDC, CTMS, eTMF, or comparable systems.
- Human-subjects research and GCP/CITI training, or willingness to complete required training.
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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