Senior CMF Designer
oura • Hybrid - San Francisco, California
Posted: April 3, 2026
Job Description
We are seeking a highly passionate Senior CMF Designer to lead material innovation and aesthetic definition across our product portfolio. In this critical role, you will define the authoritative color, material, and finish (CMF) direction for our next generation of products, ensuring they embody Oura’s brand identity and vision. You will be instrumental in a highly collaborative environment, partnering closely with design, engineering, sourcing, and external partners from concept development through mass production.
What you will do:
- Strategic CMF Development: Develop, define, and drive clear CMF strategies that support both current product lifecycles and long-term future product roadmaps.
- Material Innovation & Library Management: Systematically build, manage, and contribute to Oura’s comprehensive CMF material library, continuously vetting new materials and processes for viability and impact.
- Hands-on Experimentation & Prototyping: Conduct detailed, hands-on material and finish experimentation, testing applications and evaluating performance to inform design decisions.
- Aesthetic & Brand Alignment: Create compelling color and material stories that are meticulously aligned with and amplify Oura’s core brand identity and market position.
- Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate closely with the Engineering team to ensure the alignment of manufacturing feasibility, cost targets, and the original design intent for CMF application.
- Vendor Partnership & Exploration: Proactively collaborate with external vendors and manufacturing partners to explore and onboard innovative new materials and advanced processes.
- Quality & Sampling Management: Own and manage the entire sampling process, ensuring CMF execution meets the highest standards of quality, finish, and consistency.
- Communication & Documentation: Clearly and effectively communicate CMF direction, rationale, and specifications across all internal and external teams, providing the necessary documentation and support.
This is a hybrid-remote role, with the expectation to work from our San Francisco offices at least half-time.
REQUIREMENTS
We would love consider you for our role if you have:
- 4+ years experience in CMF design, preferably within consumer electronics or high-tech product industries.
- Technical Knowledge: Deep, demonstrable knowledge and intellectual curiosity regarding emerging materials, surface finishes, and global manufacturing processes.
- Product Development Approach: A hands-on, meticulous, and detail-oriented approach to the entire product development lifecycle, from concept ideation to production launch.
- Strategic Vision: Proven ability to translate high-level design strategy and aesthetic direction into tangible, executable product design vision.
- Communication: Extremely strong visual and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting complex CMF concepts and stories to diverse audiences.
Collaboration: Comfortable and proficient working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team environment.
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 and add to our benefits!
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
- Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers
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: $172,550 - $203,000
A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.
We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Arkansas (AR), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), Oklahoma (OK), Rhode Island (RI), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)
Additional Content
We are seeking a highly passionate Senior CMF Designer to lead material innovation and aesthetic definition across our product portfolio. In this critical role, you will define the authoritative color, material, and finish (CMF) direction for our next generation of products, ensuring they embody Oura’s brand identity and vision. You will be instrumental in a highly collaborative environment, partnering closely with design, engineering, sourcing, and external partners from concept development through mass production.
What you will do:
- Strategic CMF Development: Develop, define, and drive clear CMF strategies that support both current product lifecycles and long-term future product roadmaps.
- Material Innovation & Library Management: Systematically build, manage, and contribute to Oura’s comprehensive CMF material library, continuously vetting new materials and processes for viability and impact.
- Hands-on Experimentation & Prototyping: Conduct detailed, hands-on material and finish experimentation, testing applications and evaluating performance to inform design decisions.
- Aesthetic & Brand Alignment: Create compelling color and material stories that are meticulously aligned with and amplify Oura’s core brand identity and market position.
- Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate closely with the Engineering team to ensure the alignment of manufacturing feasibility, cost targets, and the original design intent for CMF application.
- Vendor Partnership & Exploration: Proactively collaborate with external vendors and manufacturing partners to explore and onboard innovative new materials and advanced processes.
- Quality & Sampling Management: Own and manage the entire sampling process, ensuring CMF execution meets the highest standards of quality, finish, and consistency.
- Communication & Documentation: Clearly and effectively communicate CMF direction, rationale, and specifications across all internal and external teams, providing the necessary documentation and support.
This is a hybrid-remote role, with the expectation to work from our San Francisco offices at least half-time.
REQUIREMENTS
We would love consider you for our role if you have:
- 4+ years experience in CMF design, preferably within consumer electronics or high-tech product industries.
- Technical Knowledge: Deep, demonstrable knowledge and intellectual curiosity regarding emerging materials, surface finishes, and global manufacturing processes.
- Product Development Approach: A hands-on, meticulous, and detail-oriented approach to the entire product development lifecycle, from concept ideation to production launch.
- Strategic Vision: Proven ability to translate high-level design strategy and aesthetic direction into tangible, executable product design vision.
- Communication: Extremely strong visual and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting complex CMF concepts and stories to diverse audiences.
Collaboration: Comfortable and proficient working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team environment.
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 and add to our benefits!
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
- Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers
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: $172,550 - $203,000
A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.
We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Arkansas (AR), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), Oklahoma (OK), Rhode Island (RI), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)