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.
We are seeking a Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist to support regulatory strategy/operations for our Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) portfolio. This role will help drive compliant and efficient execution of regulatory activities across the product lifecycle, including submission support, document management, change assessments, registrations, regulatory intelligence, and inspection/audit readiness.
The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience in medical device or digital health regulatory affairs, strong operational discipline, and the ability to work cross-functionally with quality, engineering, product, clinical, and legal teams in a fast-paced environment.
What You Will Do
- Lead regulatory and quality strategy for product development, approval, and lifecycle management for wellness and regulated features.
- Support regulatory operations lead for SaMD products across development, submission, launch, and post-market phases
- Coordinate preparation, compilation, publishing, and archival of regulatory submissions and related correspondence
- Maintain regulatory documentation, including:
- submission trackers
- product registrations/listings
- regulatory commitments
- approvals and clearance records
- change assessment logs
- Support design change assessments and help determine regulatory filing impact for software updates, labeling changes, and product modifications
- Track and communicate submission milestones, approvals, renewals, and post-market reporting requirements
- Support UDI, registration, listing, and market access maintenance activities where applicable
- Contribute to inspection and audit readiness by organizing regulatory evidence and ensuring documentation is current and inspection-ready
- Monitor evolving regulations, guidance, and standards relevant to SaMD, and help translate changes into operational actions
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to improve regulatory processes, templates, and tools for scale and efficiency
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, engineering, healthcare, or related discipline
- 5+ years of experience in regulatory affairs or regulatory operations within medical devices, digital health, or other regulated healthcare products
- Experience supporting software-based medical products or SaMD
- Familiarity with key regulatory frameworks and standards, such as:
- FDA medical device requirements
- EU MDR
- ISO 13485
- IEC 62304
- ISO 14971
- Experience compiling and maintaining regulatory documentation in a controlled environment
- Strong project coordination, organization, and document management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines with strong attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting 510(k), De Novo, technical documentation, or international registrations
- Familiarity with eQMS, document control, and submission management tools
- Experience with software change assessments, traceability, and lifecycle documentation
- Understanding of cybersecurity, labeling, and post-market requirements for SaMD
- RAC certification or other relevant regulatory training is a plus
- Experience working in a fast-paced startup or high-growth medtech environment is preferred
Benefits
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: $151,300 - $178,000
- Region 2: $138,550 - 163,000
- Region 3: $127,500 - $150,000
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), 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.
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