Remote
Research Project Manager
About this role
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. Job description 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.