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title: 'Staff AI Data Transformation Architect at Ōura'
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# Staff AI Data Transformation Architect at Ōura

- **Company:** Ōura
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oura/jobs/4429661009

## Job description

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](https://ouraring.com/about-us) 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.

At Ōura, we're on a mission to make health a daily practice for everyone. With our award-winning Ōura Ring and app, we've empowered over a million people to improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. Now, we're looking for a distinguished AI leader to turn scattered experimentation into safe, scalable, everyday practice across the entire company.We are seeking a Staff AI Data Transformation Architect to lead as the senior-most individual contributor driving Data AI enablement across our Data team at Ōura, reporting to VP, Data Engineering and Analytics. This is a highly visible, org-defining role that combines two things usually split across separate jobs: the strategic work of building a company-wide AI roadmap and operating model, and the hands-on work of running the operational backbone — access, governance, licensing — that makes that practice safe and scalable.There are no direct reports in this role: strategy, influence, credibility, and hands-on execution are your primary tools. This role is distinguished from Senior by its company-wide scope of influence, the level of ambiguity it resolves, and the expectation that you define the problem as much as solve it.

What You Will Do:

- Define and own the Data AI enablement roadmap across data, product, engineering, science and business functions, prioritizing the transformation opportunities with the highest leverage.
- Build the operating model for repeatable adoption: playbooks, shared tooling, evaluation frameworks, and success metrics that turn isolated pilots into standard practice.
- Establish a shared language and evaluation framework that leaders across the company use to assess AI opportunities consistently.
- Drive build-vs-buy decisions for AI tooling, influencing vendor strategy and technology investment at a company-wide level.
- Own the AI tool estate end-to-end: integration of data and access models within the Databricks platform, multi-agent workflows, token management, and partner with AI Productivity to power the AI ecosystem with a trusted data layer.
- Hold the governance line: partner with AI Governance, Security, Privacy, and Legal to define guardrails for responsible AI use in a health-sensitive environment, with auditable change management.
- Keep AI spend efficient: own observability, productivity best practices and reclamation cycles, and the usage insights that inform renewal, expansion, and build/buy decisions.
- Architect Ōura's Data AI strategy leveraging Databricks and AWS to process terabyte–petabyte scale data with global consistency.
- Lead the design of machine-readable contracts, vector-based data architectures and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns to enable LLM-powered reporting and Agentic AI at production scale, including an enterprise context plane: ontology, semantic layer, knowledge graph, and context layer.
- Partner closely with data analysts and engineers to assess, prioritize, and remediate data readiness (quality, structure, access, documentation) against the AI roadmap's use cases.
- Partner with leadership to drive workflow redesign, working directly with functional leaders to change how their teams operate — not just what tools they have access to.
- Build internal AI fluency through reusable training, a strong practitioner community, and self-service documentation that let teams and other admins operate independently.
- Scale a small number of high-value pilots into standard, company-wide practice rather than leaving them as isolated experiments.
- Act as the primary bridge between executive intent, functional leaders, and enabling functions (Security, Legal, IT, Software).
- Drive alignment across AI productivity, engineering and business units, establishing trust early and earning a seat at the table through credibility.
- Set the operating standard that functional AI Champions and any dedicated AI-tool administrators run to, without owning their day-to-day work directly.
- Represent Data AI enablement in cross-company forums, making adoption and impact metrics visible and discussed at the leadership level.

This is a hybrid role out of our San Francisco office.

What you'll bring:

- 8+ years of experience scaling AI data solutions, products or technology adoption beyond pilots into sustained, organization-wide practice, with measurable outcomes.
- A track record of building durable operating models, SOPs, and measurement systems that outlast any one project.
- History of influencing and aligning senior leadership on long-horizon technology investments.
- Deep technical fluency in LLMs and implementation patterns, with sound judgment for separating real value from hype.
- Direct, hands-on experience administering at least one enterprise AI productivity tool (e.g., Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise, Glean, Gemini, coding assistants, LLM API gateways), including user/group management and configuration troubleshooting.
- Demonstrated AI fluency: uses LLM assistants and agents in daily work with sound judgment and verification.
- Clear point of view on when to build vs. buy, grounded in real experience rather than generic opinion.
- Experience in enterprise data platforms including lakehouse using AI/LLMs.
- Practical experience with role-based access models and permissions in multi-domain/region zones.
- Comfort partnering with Security, Privacy, and Legal to define and operationalize guardrails for responsible AI use in a regulated or health-sensitive environment.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across R&D and business units without formal authority.
- Proven ability to design, document, and maintain SOPs, playbooks, and training that non-technical users and other admins can follow independently.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to flex between a hands-on troubleshooting conversation and an executive steering committee.

Nice to have:

- Databricks Certified Administrator or Databricks Certified Data Engineer certification.
- Familiarity with data mesh principles and domain-oriented data ownership models.
- Experience supporting ML workflows — MLflow, Feature Store, or Databricks Model Serving.
- Knowledge of dbt for data transformation and analytics engineering workflows.
- Cloud/AI token FinOps experience — cost allocation tagging, budget alerting, and multi-tier storage optimization.
- Exposure to Databricks Lakehouse Federation or cross-platform query federation patterns.
- Prior experience as an AI Champion or similar transformation role in another function or company.
- Familiarity with scripting or configuration automation (e.g., Python, shell, configuration-as-code) to reduce manual admin work.
- Experience in health tech, consumer health, wearables, or another regulated, high-trust industry.
- Deep expertise designing data architectures for LLM, RAG, and vector-based use cases in production environments.
- Experience with MLOps frameworks, VertexAI, MLflow, and production AI/ML lifecycle management.
- Ability to define data requirements for Agentic AI and interactive self-serve analytical systems.

## Benefits

At Ōura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Ōura 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 Ōura 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

Ōura 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 $198,050 - $233,000

Region 2 $180,200 - $212,000

Region 3 $169,150 - $199,000

A recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location.

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), 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.

Disclaimer: Beware of fake job offers! We’ve been alerted to scammers posing as ŌURA recruiters, especially for remote roles. Please note:

- Our jobs are listed only on the ŌURA Careers page and trusted job boards.
- We will never ask for personal information like ID or payment for equipment upfront.
- Official offers are sent through Docusign after a verbal offer, not via text or email.

Stay cautious and protect your personal details.

To all recruitment agencies: Oura does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Oura employees, or any other organization's location. Oura is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

## About Ōura

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ōura (Oura Health) makes a smart ring that tracks sleep, activity, stress, and women’s health, providing personalized insights to help people improve their overall well-being.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E, $900M round in 2025)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with major offices in Helsinki and Oulu, Finland)
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Petteri Lahtela, Kari Kivelä, Markku Koskela

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Wellness and Fitness Services / Health Technology
- **Target customers**: B2C (individuals focused on sleep, fitness, stress, and longevity) and B2B (employer wellness programs, clinical research partners)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Empower every person to own their inner potential and make health a daily practice.”

## Products & Services
- **Oura Ring (Gen 3 / Horizon)**: A wearable smart ring that collects over 50 health metrics – heart rate, HRV, body temperature, SpO2, sleep stages, activity, and stress. Form factor is designed for 24/7 comfort.
- **Oura Membership**: A subscription service that unlocks personalized daily health insights, readiness scores, sleep analysis, guided programs (e.g., stress management, women’s health), and trend reports.
- **Oura for Business**: Employer wellness programs that leverage Oura Ring data to improve workforce health, reduce burnout, and support preventive care.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $11 billion (set during the Series E round in 2025) – [getlatka.com](https://getlatka.com/companies/ouraring.com)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$250M** (2025 estimate) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oura)
- **Total Funding**: Conflicting reports – **$1.6B** per LinkedIn vs. **$1.2B** per Latka; both include the $900M Series E led by Fidelity in 2025. Prior investors include Lifeline Ventures, DFO Management, and others.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fidelity (lead, Series E), Lifeline Ventures, DFO Management; partnerships include the NBA (COVID-19 monitoring), employer wellness programs, and research institutions.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 2.5 million rings sold as of December 2024 – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oura)
  - Headcount: 1,042 employees (+59.2% YoY) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oura)
  - Active job postings: 124 (+85.1% YoY) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oura)
  - Acquisitions in 2024-2025: Doublepoint (gesture recognition), Sparta Science (force plate tech), Veri (continuous glucose monitor integration), Proxy (digital identity) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oura)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Form factor moat**: The only mass‑market smart ring with clinical‑grade accuracy, comfortable for 24/7 wear.
- **Data depth**: 50+ biometric metrics and proprietary algorithms for sleep, stress, and women’s health (including FDA‑cleared atrial fibrillation detection).
- **Brand and trust**: Featured in Time’s “100 Best Inventions,” endorsed by the NBA, and used by leading research institutions.
- **Integrated ecosystem**: Hardware + subscription + B2B platform creates recurring revenue and high switching costs.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI‑powered personalization**: Investing in machine learning to deliver hyper‑personalized health insights and coaching.
- **Women’s health expansion**: Dedicated product and research teams for menstrual health, pregnancy, and menopause.
- **Clinical and enterprise growth**: Pushing into clinical trials, employer wellness, and healthcare partnerships.
- **Hardware innovation**: Developing the world’s smallest smart ring (Oura Ring 4 / Horizon) and exploring gesture recognition (via Doublepoint acquisition).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven culture**: Employees are passionate about improving global health and well‑being.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly scaling company (almost 60% headcount growth) with significant resources post‑Series E.
- **Work flexibility**: Hybrid roles in San Francisco, San Diego, Helsinki, and Oulu; many remote options available – [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oura)
- **Engineering & science focus**: Strong R&D investment – 28% of employees are in technical roles, 5% in research.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salaries (e.g., Data Scientist ~$155K/yr, Staff Software Engineer ~€97K/mo in Finland) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oura)
- **Employee sentiment**: Glassdoor‑style rating of 3.5/5 (116 reviews), with compensation rated 3.8/5 – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oura)
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company emphasizes collaboration, impact, and a “privilege” to work on meaningful health technology.

## Sources
1. [ouraring.com](https://ouraring.com/) – Official product and company overview
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oura) – Company details, financials, headcount, acquisitions, and employee data
3. [getlatka.com](https://getlatka.com/companies/ouraring.com) – Valuation, funding rounds, and CEO info
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oura) – Active job listings and office locations

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