Senior CMF Designer

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.

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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.

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BENEFITS

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