Clinical Director, Metabolic Health

Clinical Director, Metabolic Health

Remote - San Francisco, California

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.

As the Clinical Director of Metabolic Health you will bring your expertise in endocrinology or metabolic medicine into a fast-moving, technology-driven environment. While a member of the Clinical Affairs team, your day to day will be in partnership with hardware, algorithm, science and regulatory teams to define, validate and bring to market metabolic-relevant features that enhance Oura's ability to monitor and support metabolic-related health.

The role centers on metabolic health, while requiring a whole person view to health and wellness. You're the clinician-scientist who bridges human physiology and wearable product innovation across the wellness and software as a medical device (SaMD) spaces.

• Build trust and credibility for Oura and our products for members, physicians, scientists and health systems.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, data science and algorithm teams to define clinical features aligned with metabolic health, including integrations with continuous glucose monitors (CGM) and laboratory testing, and alignment with related teams such as sleep, activity and women's health.
• Collaborate on clinical feature specifications:
  Translate your metabolic health knowledge and existing literature into real-world informed performance goals, working closely with science and product teams.
• Design and oversee clinical validation studies (feasibility, observational, real-world) to demonstrate product performance and clinical relevance in the metabolic space.
• Work with regulatory, quality and clinical outcomes teams to build protocols, drive submissions and ensure compliance in applicable markets, and adapt to the changing regulatory environment in major markets.
• Engage cross-functionally: proactively anticipate risks, communicate clearly about challenges, adjust plans, and maintain a collaborative mindset.
• Serve as a clinical voice across the organization: staying abreast of the newest and most relevant medical insights, weaving this science into product decisions, translating this into company knowledge and features.
• Guide the team on inclusion of appropriate biometrics and ground truth data, clinical endpoints, and study design. Uplevel internal knowledge across teams related to this domain of medicine and science.
• Represent Oura externally to scientific audiences, payors, partners, clinicians and health systems.

Minimum qualifications

• MD/DO/MBBS with deep expertise in general endocrinology, metabolic medicine, or related specialty.
• Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Endocrinology or a related specialty with an active medical license.
• At least 5 years practicing medicine in a relevant field.
• Prior experience in health product development or digital health, in regulated environments (software as a medical device/SaMD, wearables, diagnostics).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; comfortable presenting to diverse teams including leadership.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing and executing pivotal clinical studies for regulated health products (evidence generation, real-world observational datasets, algorithm validation).
• Familiarity with algorithm/ML development in a clinical context (glycemic patterns, insulin resistance markers, or metabolic-physiology signals) and with the application of statistical analysis to clinical algorithms.
• Familiarity with diagnostic and wearable signals,…