Clinical Director, Metabolic Health

Oura
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: professionalSkills: ["Communication","Interpersonal skills","Clinical leadership","Cross-functional collaboration","Presenting"]

Lead clinical strategy for metabolic health features in a fast-moving SaMD and wearable environment. Partner with hardware, algorithm, science, and regulatory teams to define performance goals, clinical endpoints, and specifications, including CGM and lab integrations. Design and oversee feasibility and real-world validation studies, translate medical evidence into product decisions, and ensure compliance through submissions across major markets while representing Oura to clinicians, payors, and scientific audiences.

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Oura
Oura
2 months ago

Clinical Director, Metabolic Health

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Job Summary

Lead clinical strategy for metabolic health features in a fast-moving SaMD and wearable environment. Partner with hardware, algorithm, science, and regulatory teams to define performance goals, clinical endpoints, and specifications, including CGM and lab integrations. Design and oversee feasibility and real-world validation studies, translate medical evidence into product decisions, and ensure compliance through submissions across major markets while representing Oura to clinicians, payors, and scientific audiences.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build trust and credibility for Oura metabolic health products with members, physicians, scientists, and health systems.
  • •Collaborate across engineering, product, design, data science, and algorithm teams to define clinical features for metabolic health, including CGM and lab integrations.
  • •Translate metabolic health knowledge and literature into real-world informed performance goals and clinical feature specifications.
  • •Design and oversee clinical validation studies (feasibility, observational, real-world) to demonstrate product performance and clinical relevance.
  • •Partner with regulatory, quality, and clinical outcomes teams to build protocols, drive submissions, and ensure compliance; represent Oura externally to scientific audiences.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionEquityPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •MD/DO/MBBS with deep expertise in general endocrinology or metabolic medicine.
  • •Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Endocrinology, or related specialty, with an active medical license.
  • •At least 5 years practicing medicine in a relevant field.
  • •Experience in health product development or digital health in regulated environments (SaMD, wearables, diagnostics).
  • •Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable presenting to diverse teams including leadership.
Experience:5+ yearsDigital healthWearablesSaMDDiagnosticsRegulated healthcare
Education:Professional (JD, MD, etc.)
Skills:CommunicationInterpersonal skillsClinical leadershipCross-functional collaborationPresenting
Licenses:Medical license
Tech Stack:Software as a medical device (SaMD)Continuous glucose monitors (CGM)Statistical analysisClinical algorithms

Company Brief

Oura
Designs and sells the Oura Ring, a wearable device that tracks sleep, activity, and physiological signals to provide personalized health, recovery, and readiness insights via a companion app and analytics platform.
Industry: Wearables
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: Oulu, Finland
Founded: 2013
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