Oura is seeking a Senior Counsel to support enterprise-wide global legal strategy and counsel across jurisdictions with a strong grounding in international expansion, global privacy, trade, and product regulatory law. This role helps determine and execute the strategic legal roadmap across jurisdictions, operationalizes scalable governance frameworks, and partners cross-functionally to support enable market entry, compliant product launches, and durable business operations.
What You Will Do:- Provide strategic legal counsel on international expansion, entity and market-entry pathways, compliance, and risk considerations for operations in new and existing jurisdictions.
- Advise on global privacy and data protection requirements, including cross-border data transfers and localized requirements including on user terms, notices, privacy impact assessments, vendor contracts, and consent approaches.
- Help harmonize regional requirements into global standards with pragmatic country-level deviations that facilitate the ability to quickly expand into new jurisdictions.
- Partner with Regulatory Affairs and Product to align on regulatory pathways and compliance considerations for new features and markets.
- Build, maintain, and socialize scalable legal templates, guardrails, and playbooks that streamline international launches and reduce cycle time.
- Operationalize multi-jurisdictional launches, including coordinating with outside counsel across regions and consolidating country-specific advice into clear, actionable guidance that can be communicated with and actioned by internal technical and non-legal stakeholders.
- Support responses to regulatory authority inquiries, enforcement matters, risk-related considerations, and policy interpretation; coordinate strategy and communications with outside counsel as needed.
- Advise on advertising and promotional compliance, substantiation requirements, and labelling considerations to ensure alignment with regulatory clearances and applicable consumer protection laws.
- Provide counsel on global trade compliance for product and data flows, including export controls (EAR/ITAR), sanctions/embargoes, customs/import classification (HTS), ECCN and dual-use analysis, restricted-party screening, and distributor/partner diligence.
- Help implement and maintain policies, training, and controls to support prompt cross-border launches and supply chain resilience.
- Support legal program enablement by helping to develop simple intake, triage, and review lanes; clear escalation paths; and metrics that demonstrate business enablement, internal compliance, and risk management.
This is a remote role based in the US.
What you'll bring- 7+ years of relevant legal experience, including advising on international expansion and global privacy and/or product regulatory matters.
- Demonstrated ability to counsel cross-functional teams (Product, Regulatory, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Operations) in a fast-paced environment with pragmatic, business-forward guidance.
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) and good standing with at least one U.S. state bar (or international equivalent in a common law jurisdiction).
- Strong working knowledge of major global privacy frameworks and cross-border transfer mechanisms, and familiarity with international consumer and marketing law considerations. Comfort translating complex, multi-regional rules into actionable, product-ready requirements.
- Experience building scalable legal processes (templates, playbooks, SLAs), communicating with regulators, and managing outside counsel across regions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of simplifying complexity for executive and non-legal audiences.
Nice to have:- In-house experience at a high-growth technology or consumer health company.
- Exposure to wearable technologies, digital health, connected devices, and/or software-as-a-medical-device regulation.
- Specific expertise supporting EU/UK markets.
BenefitsAt ura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at ura 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 ura 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
ura 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 $206,000 - $235,000
Region 2 $186,000 - $213,000
Region 3 $168,000 - $192,000
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).
