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 Director of Knowledge Management, you will own Oura’s enterprise knowledge strategy and serve as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for our transition to governed, durable knowledge practices. Operating at the intersection of People, IT, Legal, Comms, and Operations, you will establish taxonomy, build governance frameworks, and drive the cultural change needed to ensure the right knowledge reaches the right people at the right time.
Key Responsibilities
Knowledge Strategy & Architecture
- Define enterprise-wide taxonomy, governance, and "living knowledge" frameworks to support rapid scaling and IPO readiness.
- Develop corporate ontologies to ensure institutional knowledge is machine-searchable and AI-ready.
- Partner with senior leadership to identify and mitigate organizational memory risks.
Data Retention & Migration (Program Lead)
- Serve as DRI for a 7-wave data retention program, transitioning the company from Slack-centric storage to durable repositories (Confluence, Google Drive).
- Build and mobilize a cross-functional network of department champions to lead migration efforts.
- Enforce documentation standards, leverage AI tools (e.g., Glean) for migration, and manage change to prevent shadow IT.
- Partner with Legal to manage compliance carve-outs, legal holds, and retention policies.
Institutional Memory Preservation
- Standardize knowledge capture for critical transitions (departures, role changes, org redesigns).
- Embed retrospective practices to systematically document decision rationales and project context.
Platform Stewardship & Change Management
- Co-own governance of Oura’s tech stack (Confluence, Google Workspace, Glean, Miro, Slack, Intranet) in partnership with IT.
- Optimize information architecture to support multi-tool AI stack use cases (e.g., performance reviews, deal continuity).
- Embed knowledge hygiene into core HR milestones (onboarding, L&D tracking, planning cycles).
- Define and track KPIs for knowledge health, including content currency, discoverability, and search efficacy.
Qualifications
- 12+ years in knowledge management, organizational effectiveness, change management, L&D, or an adjacent field.
- Proven success scaling KM practices within high-growth, Series C+ or pre-IPO environments.
- Prefer candidates with hands-on expertise with Google Workspace, Glean, Miro, and Slack.
- Exceptional track record of driving cross-functional behavior change, program management, and cultural alignment.
- Familiarity with data retention compliance, legal governance, or HR/L&D operations.
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 $200,600-$230,000
- Region 2 $182,750- $210,000
- Region 3 $164,900- $190,000
A recruiter can determine your Region 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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