Product Secrecy & Protection Lead

At Oura, our mission is to empower every person to own their inner potential. With our award-winning Oura Ring and app, we help over 2.5 million people turn insights about sleep, activity, and readiness into healthier, more balanced lives. We believe that starts from within — by creating a culture where our team feels supported, included, and inspired to do their best work. Our values guide how we show up for each other and our community every day.

The Product Secrecy & Protection Lead will lead Oura’s global program to safeguard confidential intellectual property, prototypes, research environments, and pre-release product information. This high-impact manager-level individual contributor role reports to the Senior Director, Global Risk & Resilience (Legal) and focuses on embedding secrecy frameworks, managing prototype risks, and investigating leaks.

This is a builder role: the right candidate will be a strategic thinker who can design scalable frameworks while also rolling up their sleeves to execute and deliver results. The role partners across the business to balance innovation with security requirements, directly shaping Oura’s secrecy culture while enabling growth. In doing so, your work will protect Oura’s most sensitive ideas while empowering our engineers, scientists, and designers to innovate with confidence.

This is a remote US role.

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:

• Build and lead Oura’s product secrecy program, establishing scalable frameworks, playbooks, and hands-on solutions to protect confidential designs, prototypes, and pre-release assets across the product lifecycle.
• Develop and enforce prototype handling standards for secure distribution, storage, transport, usage, and disposal, including supporting labs and research environments with appropriate access and monitoring controls.
• Conduct risk assessments on secrecy and prototype security, developing mitigation strategies and governance (policies, standards, and procedures) aligned with trade secret law and contractual obligations.
• Partner with IT/Security to ensure secure digital handling of confidential product data and controlled access to systems and assets.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and scientific research teams to understand technical processes and workflows, integrating security measures without disrupting innovation.
• Define and report on key metrics to measure the effectiveness and business impact of secrecy and product security controls (e.g., incident response, risk reduction, time-to-market enablement).

• 12+ years of experience in product security, secrecy/IP protection, investigations, or related roles in consumer technology, wearables, or R&D-driven environments.
• Expertise in controlled lab design and prototype handling, with familiarity in physical security best practices and supporting systems (e.g., access control, surveillance, secure storage/transport).
• Proven ability to build and operate programs at both the strategic and tactical levels — drafting governance (policies, standards, procedures, playbooks) and executing hands-on when needed.
• Strong investigative and partnership skills, including experience coordinating with external firms, vendors, and agencies.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust across technical and business teams and present effectively to all levels of the organization.
  

Nice to Have 

• Expertise in trade secret law, confidentiality frameworks, and regulatory considerations.
• Strong understanding of scientific research and engineering environments, with the ability to translate technical requirements into practical security measures.
  

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.

What we offer:

• 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.

• Region 1 $149,000-$186,000
• Region 2 $138,000-$172,000
• Region 3 $128,000-$160,000

A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.

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)

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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