Staff System Engineering Program Manager (Hardware)

Location: Hybrid, San Francisco, California, United States. The role is based in the San Francisco office. Candidates residing in Alaska, Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, West Virginia, or Wisconsin are not considered.

Salary: $198,000–$233,000 annually for Region 1 US locations; pay varies by location, skills, experience, qualifications, internal equity, and market conditions.

Company

hirify.global develops Oura Ring wearable health products and a connected app that provide insights into readiness, activity, and sleep quality.

What you will do

• Lead a major hardware program or workstream from early prototype through EVT, DVT, and PVT, aligning scope, milestones, deliverables, and launch outcomes.
• Coordinate mechanical, electrical, firmware, science, systems, and test teams through integrated plans, dependencies, decisions, and deliverables.
• Build and maintain schedules, critical paths, action logs, budgets, forecasts, risk registers, mitigation plans, and program documentation.
• Coordinate prototype and factory builds, including readiness criteria, materials, resources, issue triage, and follow-through on build learnings.
• Run core team meetings, drive decisions and accountability, resolve execution risks, and align recovery plans.
• Present concise program status, budget, risks, decisions, and recovery plans to executive leadership while coordinating with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and manufacturing partners.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience leading technical programs or complex product development, preferably in consumer hardware.
• Experience coordinating hardware development across mechanical, electrical, firmware, science or systems, and test disciplines.
• Experience leading hardware programs through NPI stages and coordinating prototype or factory builds.
• Strong program-management skills covering integrated scheduling, critical-path management, budget tracking, risk and dependency management, and action closure.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity, influence without direct authority, and create accountability while maintaining strong working relationships.
• Confidence leading core team forums and presenting clear program status and risks to executive or senior leadership.
• Strong judgment and communication skills, including translating complex technical issues into decisions, trade-offs, and actionable plans.
• Experience with Jira, Smartsheet, Confluence, and Google Workspace.
• Desire to learn, take on challenges, drive results, and protect product quality and customer outcomes.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with EVT, DVT, and PVT.
• Experience with PLM systems such as Teamcenter or Arena.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work from the San Francisco office.
• Competitive salary and equity packages.
• Health, dental, vision, and mental health resources.
• Oura Ring, employee discounts for friends and family, 20 days of paid time off, 13 paid holidays, and 8 days of flexible wellness time off.
• Paid sick leave and parental leave.
• Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation available during interviews and employment.