Senior Director, Sports & Brand Partner Marketing

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p> <p>Empowering the world starts with living <a href="https://ouraring.com/about-us&quot;&gt;our values</a> 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.&nbsp;</p></div><p>We’re looking for a senior, highly strategic leader to serve as Senior Director, Sports &amp; Brand Partner Marketing, owning how Oura shows up with our most important partners across brand collaborations, collegiate and professional sports, and our growing ecosystem of product partners, including Oura360 offerings (e.g., Dexcom Stelo, Health Panels, and future add‑on services).</p> <p>This highly visible role will own the end‑to‑end partnership and sports marketing portfolio — from target prioritization and deal shaping through activation, measurement, renewal, and expansion — and will serve as a Oura’s senior marketing counterpart to VP‑level leaders at partner organizations.</p> <p>You will build and scale co‑marketing programs, maximize contractual assets, and ensure measurable brand and business impact across paid, owned, earned, experiential, and partner channels. You will also design and lead the intake, prioritization, and governance model for marketing requests from our Commercial organization, ensuring we focus on the right opportunities, route work to the right marketing teams, and protect both brand integrity and team bandwidth.</p> <p>You will lead a growing team, collaborate closely with executive leadership, and work cross‑functionally across Marketing, Creative, Commercial, Product, Social, Lifecycle, Science/Clinical, and PR/Comms to drive growth through Oura’s partner and sports ecosystem. This is a remote role, but the candidate must be based in the United States.</p> <h3>What You Will Do</h3> <h4>1. Strategy &amp; Leadership</h4> <ul> <li>Own the comprehensive sports and brand partner marketing strategy, aligned to company growth goals and long‑range plans, including target prioritization, partnership evaluation, and deal shaping in collaboration with executive stakeholders.</li> <li>Define tiered partner frameworks, value propositions, and go‑to‑market strategies, clarifying investment levels, benefits, and expectations for each tier.</li> <li>Build, lead, and develop a high‑performing Sports &amp; Brand Partner Marketing team, fostering a collaborative, accountable culture with clear ownership, career paths, and development plans.</li> <li>Partner with senior leadership across Commercial, Marketing, and Product to prioritize initiatives, secure alignment, and influence roadmaps for partners, Oura360, and sports properties.</li> <li>Act as a strategic thought partner to the CMO, Chief Commercial Officer, and other executives on where and how sports and partnerships show up in our brand and growth strategy.</li> </ul> <h4>2. Sports Marketing</h4> <ul> <li>Develop and lead sports‑led brand marketing initiatives and experiential activations that elevate Oura’s brand through partner collaborations, including major sponsorships, tentpole events, and fully integrated campaigns across paid, owned, earned, and experiential channels.</li> <li>Lead Oura’s sports marketing strategy, starting with our roles as the Official Wearable of Team USA and Team Finland, as well as a key sponsor of the New York Knicks, shaping the overarching creative platform and activation vision in partnership with Brand and Creative teams.</li> <li>Translate complex sports sponsorship and rights packages (IP, NIL, hospitality, research collaboration, media) into clear, prioritized activation roadmaps that balance brand elevation, performance, and operational reality.</li> <li>Partner closely with PR/Comms, Brand, Creative, and Science/Clinical to develop differentiated narratives and campaign concepts that reinforce Oura’s leadership in sleep, recovery, readiness, and long‑term wellbeing for elite athletes and everyday members alike.</li> <li>Concept, produce, and support immersive sports‑led experiences (e.g., Olympics activations, federation programs, hospitality experiences, athlete‑driven content) that create culturally resonant moments and measurable impact.</li> </ul> <h4>3. Brand Partner Marketing</h4> <ul> <li>Define and uphold criteria for brand‑right partnerships, ensuring alignment with Oura’s positioning, cultural relevance, and long‑term brand strategy; influence target selection in collaboration with executive stakeholders.</li> <li>Lead the development of integrated co‑marketing strategies with brand partners in close partnership with Brand, Creative, Product, and Commercial teams, translating partner assets into cohesive storytelling across paid, owned, earned, retail, and partner channels.</li> <li>Oversee the strategy and execution of experiential and brand activations tied to strategic partners, creating culturally resonant moments that elevate Oura’s presence while delivering measurable brand and business impact.</li> <li>Establish and continuously refine performance frameworks and dashboards to measure partnership ROI (e.g., brand lift, engagement, revenue contribution, asset utilization), and use insights to guide investment, activation strategy, and renewal decisions.</li> </ul> <h4>4. Oura360 &amp; Ecosystem Marketing</h4> <ul> <li>Post‑launch, own the end‑to‑end member‑facing marketing strategy for Oura360 products (e.g., Dexcom Stelo, Health Panels and future add‑on services), with a focus on awareness, attach, engagement, and long‑term retention.</li> <li>Partner with Lifecycle, CRM, Product, and Commercial teams to design and optimize cross‑channel programs (email, push, in‑app, .com, partner co‑marketing) that drive trial and sustained engagement with Oura360 offerings among Oura Members.</li> <li>Build and own measurement frameworks for Oura360 (e.g., awareness, attach rate, utilization, retention, incremental revenue, and—where appropriate—health outcomes) and use insights to refine strategy, creative, and channel mix.</li> <li>Ensure Oura360 storytelling is tightly integrated into brand, partner, and sports marketing moments so Members understand how these offerings enhance their overall Oura experience.</li> </ul> <h4>5. Commercial Intake, Prioritization &amp; Marketing Governance</h4> <ul> <li>Design and lead a clear intake, triage, and prioritization model for marketing requests from the Commercial organization (US and global), including criteria, SLAs, and decision frameworks.</li> <li>Act as senior marketing point of contact for Commercial leaders, helping them understand when and how to engage with Brand, Lifecycle/CRM, Product Marketing, PR/Comms, and other teams — and where marketing should not be involved.</li> <li>Partner with Commercial and Finance to assess expected impact and marketing burden for proposed partnerships and activations; push back constructively when opportunities are off‑strategy, under‑resourced, or dilute focus.</li> <li>Create operating rhythms and communication channels (e.g., regular pipeline reviews, intake office hours, dashboards) that provide transparency into the marketing request pipeline and tradeoffs across markets, verticals, and partners.</li> <li>Ensure that marketing resources are deployed against the highest‑impact partner and sports opportunities, protecting team capacity while enabling Commercial to deliver on revenue goals.</li> </ul> <h4>6. Cross‑Functional &amp; Executive Partnership</h4> <ul> <li>Serve as the senior marketing lead and executive‑level counterpart for key strategic brand and sports partnerships (e.g., Team USA/USOPC, Team Finland, New York Knicks, and other priority partners), driving alignment across Commercial, Legal, Science/Clinical, PR/Comms, Creative, and agencies.</li> <li>Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior counterparts at partner organizations (CMO/VP/Head‑level), including joint business planning, annual and multi‑year roadmaps, and executive readouts.</li> <li>Partner with PR/Comms to shape announcement strategies, press materials, run‑of‑show plans, and executive social content for major partnership and sports moments (e.g., Olympics announcements, new federation deals, Oura360 milestones).</li> <li>Represent Oura in high‑stakes external settings (e.g., executive summits, renewal negotiations, board‑level partner meetings), ensuring our brand position, member value, and commercial priorities are clear and compelling.</li> </ul> <p>This is a remote US role.&nbsp;</p> <h4><br>The Ideal Candidate:</h4> <ul> <li>A senior, strategic marketer who thrives at the intersection of brand, product, partnerships, and sports, able to move seamlessly between high‑level strategy and hands‑on execution.</li> <li>Experienced in owning partner and sports marketing strategies end‑to‑end, wit