Director, Mechanical Sourcing

The role

The Director, Global Mechanical Sourcing will lead the strategy, execution, and development of the global mechanical sourcing organization. This leader will own mechanical sourcing across current and future hardware programs and align strategy across US, Finland, and Asia teams.

What you will do

• Set the global mechanical sourcing strategy
• Lead and develop the global mechanical sourcing organization
• Build and execute development plans for managers and individual contributors
• Establish a fact base for mechanical cost and value decisions
• Own supplier selection and portfolio decisions for mechanical components and assemblies
• Develop executive-level relationships with strategic suppliers and contract manufacturing partners
• Lead or oversee high-impact negotiations
• Be accountable for operational and commercial outcomes across the mechanical portfolio
• Improve sourcing processes, templates, systems, and governance

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, supply chain, operations, manufacturing, or a related field
• Significant experience in mechanical components and assemblies
• Experience leading global sourcing teams across multiple regions
• Deep experience with mechanical manufacturing processes such as CNC, injection molding, stamping, MIM, die casting, surface finishing, adhesives, die cuts, softgoods, or related technologies
• Experience in consumer electronics, wearables, medical devices, or another product business with complex, miniaturized hardware
• Experience owning category strategy, supplier architecture, and day-to-day supplier execution
• Strong analytical skills including should-cost modeling, cost-driver analysis, supplier benchmarking, financial analysis, scenario planning, and total-cost-of-ownership evaluation
• Proven record of leading complex negotiations with supplier and contract manufacturing executives
• Experience supporting multiple concurrent NPI programs through development, ramp, mass production, and sustaining
• Strong understanding of DFM, supplier qualification, manufacturing readiness, quality systems, and supply continuity planning
• Executive presence and communication skills
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally approximately 25–30% as needed

Nice to have

• Experience leading mechanical sourcing for wearables, smart devices, or other high-volume consumer hardware
• Experience working across both European and US-based engineering, sourcing, and supplier organizations
• Experience with packaging, finishing, coatings, adhesives, softgoods, or other adjacent mechanical categories
• Experience with supplier development, value engineering, design-to-cost, or manufacturing process innovation
• Master’s degree

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Ōura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
• 20 days of paid time off
• 13 paid holidays
• 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• Paid sick leave
• Parental leave

Before you apply

• Candidate should be based in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Not considering candidates residing in Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)

About the company

ŌURA's mission is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Their products help a global community gain knowledge of readiness, activity, and sleep quality using the Oura Ring and connected app.