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IPSY

Subscription-based beauty products via monthly bags

Vice President TPM

Full-Time
$225k - $275k+ Bonus
Expert
Bachelor's
Remote in USA
RemoteRemote work is limited to states where IPSY is authorized to hire.
Project & Program ManagementProgram Management
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • At least 12 years of experience in technology leadership spanning strategy, program management, and digital operations, including at least 5 years in a PMO.
  • A proven track record supporting executive leaders, ideally a CTO, and scaling operational capability in high-growth environments.
  • Fluency in how digital platforms ship and are measured, including delivery mechanics, instrumentation, and engineering culture, and the ability to translate that across the organization.
  • Hands-on fluency with Jira, Confluence, Asana, Smartsheet, and Monday.com.
  • Comfort discussing architecture trade-offs, incident response, and system performance with engineering and Site Reliability Engineering teams without needing to write production code.
  • Systems thinking and decision-making in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, with the ability to move between strategy and daily execution.
  • Skill in cross-functional alignment and influencing without direct authority.
  • Strong financial acumen in budgeting, return on investment, and prioritization, and the ability to design scalable governance models.
  • Strong executive presence and written and verbal communication skills, including synthesizing technical and business context for an executive-level audience.
  • Must be legally authorized to work full-time in the United States without requiring current or future visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities
  • Drive annual planning, Objectives and Key Results alignment, and progress tracking across the technology organization.
  • Take on sensitive, fast-moving cross-department initiatives requiring discretion and the ability to quickly bring together the right people.
  • Lead the centralized Project Management Office function and define and implement its vision, operating model, and governance framework.
  • Define and manage a portfolio of strategic initiatives spanning platform modernization, checkout and payments, fulfillment, personalization, subscription systems, and experience transformation.
  • Build the operating framework for prioritizing work, tracking milestones, resolving dependencies, managing budgets, and flagging risks.
  • Align Business, Engineering, Product, Data, and Infrastructure on scope, sequencing, and delivery dates.
  • Build and lead a high-performing project and program management team, and establish standardized methodologies—including Agile, hybrid, and stage-gate—suited to each program type.
  • Drive end-to-end execution of complex, cross-functional programs, including platform enhancements, personalization, and fulfillment optimization.
  • Introduce best practices, tools, and technologies to enhance execution, including Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, and portfolio tools.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to strengthen Agile practices and delivery predictability.
  • Support roadmap planning, backlog prioritization, and release governance.
  • Enable data-driven decision-making and iterative delivery models.
  • Oversee Digital Operations and Site Event Operations to ensure platform reliability, operational readiness, and execution of peak commerce and site events.
  • Drive the design and adoption of digital operational best practices across platform engineering, Quality Assurance, Site Reliability Engineering, and support.
  • Define and own digital operational performance key performance indicators, including uptime, page load time, deployment frequency, incident mean time to resolution, and error rates.
  • Lead continuous improvement rituals, including retrospectives, postmortems, and tooling upgrades, to reduce friction and improve delivery velocity.
  • Ensure the Project Management Office risk framework accounts for payment card industry data security standards compliance, data privacy, and third-party vendor risk involving payment gateways and fulfillment or third-party logistics partners.
  • Establish and lead enterprise resource management practices to support effective portfolio execution.
  • Maintain a centralized view of resource capacity, demand, and allocation across strategic initiatives, and provide forward-looking capacity forecasts to inform prioritization, sequencing, and trade-off decisions.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and Data functional leaders to align staffing plans with prioritized work.
  • Identify resource constraints and recommend reallocation, hiring, outsourcing, or reprioritization; enable scenario planning to assess the effect of new initiatives on existing commitments and trade-offs.
  • Implement tools and processes to track resource utilization, skill alignment, and availability in real time.
  • Ensure resource plans are tied to portfolio outcomes, timelines, and financial targets.
  • Oversee portfolio-level budgeting and forecasting.
  • Track and report delivery timelines, cost performance, return on investment, and business outcomes; establish key performance indicators and Objectives and Key Results linked to strategic initiatives.
  • Build a culture of transparency, delivery accountability, and technical and operational excellence.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence.
  • Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing project and program management team; define clear roles, career paths, and development plans.
  • Provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and performance management aligned to organizational goals.
  • Lead change management efforts to improve adoption of Project Management Office practices.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in consumer-facing digital products, e-commerce, or subscription-commerce platforms.
  • Project Management Professional, Program Management Professional, or equivalent certification.
  • Agile certifications such as Scaled Agile Framework or Scrum.

About the company

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IPSY is a beauty subscription service that sends a monthly Glam Bag with five curated items (makeup, skincare, and hair) based on your profile, starting at $13. Subscribers receive exclusive offers and discounts up to 80% plus expert tips and tutorials from IPSY Stylists. How it works: you create a beauty profile, pay a monthly fee, and get a personalized bag each month with optional add-ons and deals. IPSY stands out by combining personalized curation, a continuing subscription, a rich community with expert content, and frequent exclusive discounts to build loyalty and recurring revenue.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$236.6M

Headquarters

Santa Monica, California

Founded

2011

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What believers are saying

  • August 2026 launch won OLIVIAUMMA Sephora traffic with 2-3x benchmark click-through rates.
  • April 2026 Aces partnership expands IPSY's sports visibility and brand reach.
  • February 2026 Mystery Bags hit 30% sell-through in under a week.

What critics are saying

  • Subscription beauty remains promotion-sensitive, and 2024 layoffs signal continued margin pressure.
  • Sephora, Ulta, and TikTok creators own discovery, compressing IPSY's influence quickly.
  • If shoppers bypass subscriptions for retailer-native discovery, IPSY becomes a data broker.

What makes IPSY unique

  • IPSY combines 16 million beauty fans, first-party reviews, and 20 million touchpoints.
  • August 2026 Marketing Solutions monetizes its sampling engine beyond subscriptions.
  • Its 2025 Beauty Discovery Report uses 200 million reviews to shape brand strategy.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Paid Time Off
  • Remote Work Options
  • Learning & Development Programs

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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PR Newswire
Oct 15th, 2026
IPSY Expands its Consumer Offerings with the Launch of IPSY Wellness.

IPSY Expands its Consumer Offerings with the Launch of IPSY Wellness. Oct 15, 2026, 09:00 ET The new quarterly membership brings IPSY's trusted approach to curated discovery to wellness, helping consumers discover products and rituals that support inner and outer beauty LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Today, IPSY announced IPSY Wellness, marking the beauty company's major expansion into the wellness category and the next evolution of its curated discovery platform. Recognizing that beauty and wellness have converged into one connected routine, IPSY Wellness brings IPSY's trusted discovery engine into a new category. Building on years of expertise where IPSY has served as a guide to millions cutting through the noise to find the beauty products that will best work for them, now IPSY Wellness brings that authority to a category that can be even harder to navigate. IPSY Wellness extends IPSY's proven approach to discovery, helping members navigate an increasingly crowded category with confidence. IPSY analyzed first-party preference, review, and product trial data from its millions of members to understand their wellness needs, and used those insights to build a program that curates products around consumer needs, introducing emerging and established brands at scale. According to IPSY's 2026 Beauty Discovery Report, 66%* of members surveyed are interested in wellness but feel overwhelmed by the options, while 69%** say they won't commit to a routine without sampling first. That appetite for discovery is evident among members, with 65%* of those surveyed saying they are likely to try or explore a new wellness brand or product if introduced through IPSY, putting discovery and trial at the center of the opportunity. "Millions of members have trusted IPSY with their beauty routines, and with wellness and beauty now more connected than ever, we want to take a more holistic approach to meeting our members' needs. The growing interest in wellness demonstrates that members are looking for IPSY to provide the same level of support in wellness that we have provided in beauty for years," said Galen Smith, CEO of IPSY. "IPSY Wellness builds on the discovery model we've established in beauty, applying our strengths in trial and curation in a way that deepens member relationships and creates new opportunities for brands." The definition of a beauty routine has changed with wellness now central to how consumers look and feel their best. Beauty is increasingly being built from the inside out, with approximately two-thirds of Gen Z and millennials in the U.S., U.K. and Germany having purchased functional nutrition products in the past year*** IPSY member insights reinforce this shift, associating wellness with health and beauty, fitness, nutrition, better sleep and skin health.* More than 60%**** of respondents to an IPSY Instagram poll say supplements and nutrition, skin and facial tools, and hair and scalp care all play a role in how they approach beauty. IPSY Wellness offers a new avenue for growth by deepening relationships with existing members and reaching new audiences beyond its core beauty community. Because wellness products often require more time to experience their benefits, the quarterly format gives members time to try products and build routines. At launch, IPSY Wellness members can choose from three collections: Skin, Hair and Total Wellness. Each features four thoughtfully curated products, including supplements, treatment, and tools; at more than 50% off retail value. The collections will feature a mix of emerging and iconic brands, including Goli, Sakara and Apothékary at launch, followed by Lemme, Beam and Good Bacteria in 2027, giving members the opportunity to discover both established favorites and new names in wellness. ABOUT IPSY IPSY is a leading curated beauty and wellness membership, uniting millions of hyper-engaged consumers with the products and inspiration that empower them to look and feel their best. Through subscription deliveries and its e-commerce marketplace, IPSY connects members with new favorites from emerging and iconic brands, and a community that shares their passion. IPSY is also the go-to platform for beauty brands, providing access to one of the world's largest networks of highly engaged beauty enthusiasts. Through IPSY Marketing Solutions, its full-funnel marketing engine, and powered by expert curation and millions of member insights, IPSY drives product discovery, demand, and retail growth while shaping what's next in beauty. Learn more at IPSY.com. * Source: IPSY Consumer Research, 2025. 420 total survey respondents. ** Source: IPSY Consumer Research, 2025. 1,238 total survey respondents. *** Source: McKinsey & Company, Future of Wellness Survey, 2025. More than 9,000 consumers surveyed across the U.S., U.K., Germany, and China. **** Source: IPSY Instagram poll. 513 total votes. SOURCE IPSY

PR Newswire
Aug 25th, 2026
IPSY launches full-funnel Marketing Solutions to accelerate beauty brand growth and retail performance

IPSY has launched IPSY Marketing Solutions, a full-funnel marketing platform designed to help beauty brands build awareness, generate consumer demand, and drive retail growth. The service leverages IPSY's 15 years in beauty discovery, combining a community of 16 million beauty enthusiasts, first-party data, creator partnerships, and precision media capabilities. The platform addresses growing pressure on beauty brands to demonstrate measurable return on investment and prove consumer demand before retail launches. IPSY Marketing Solutions complements retail media strategies by connecting product trial, creator marketing, and consumer insights into integrated campaigns. Early partnerships have shown results: a campaign for OLIVIAUMMA's Sephora launch achieved click-through rates 2–3 times above industry benchmarks. The service supports brands at all growth stages, from emerging companies preparing for retail launches to established brands like ELEMIS and e.l.f. Beauty.

Personal Care Insights
Aug 25th, 2026
Ipsy talks marketing engine launch that drives beauty brand demand.

Ipsy talks marketing engine launch that drives beauty brand demand. Key takeaways. * Ipsy has released a marketing solutions engine, using first-party data, product trials, and its creator network to help beauty brands drive demand and retail growth. * Its consumer insights help brands understand consumer interest and optimize marketing throughout the product launch cycle. * Its Oliviaumma campaign shows how audience insights and authentic consumer content can generate measurable traffic and marketing ROI. Ipsy has dispatched an end-to-end marketing and sales engine to address the growing pressure on brands to deliver marketing ROI (return on investment) and prove consumer interest. Ipsy Marketing Solutions aims to help brands drive demand, scale retail, and maximize marketing efficiency. The engine is designed to work alongside retail media strategies, informing brands about consumer preferences and driving engagement across the full marketing lifecycle. Jason Kwong, chief business development officer at Ipsy, tells Personal Care Insights about how the company takes a holistic approach to understanding consumer behavior by utilizing a broad set of informational touchpoints to give brands dependable and data-backed consumer insights. For Ipsy Marketing Solutions, the personalized beauty subscription service company has tapped its social media community base of 16 million and its consumer touch points of over 20 million, alongside first-party data, a product trial ecosystem, and its creator network to develop the engine. Kwong tells Personal Care Insights the company is uniquely positioned to provide beauty insights to partner brands due to its 15 years of expertise in beauty discovery. Reading beauty data Ipsy uses consumer insights to drive beauty brand growth. Ipsy Marketing Solutions is designed to assist beauty brands in bringing attention to their product and supporting consumer demand. The full-funnel marketing and sales acceleration engine works to boost retail growth through a product's launch cycle. Galen Smith, CEO of Ipsy, says: "Launching a beauty product today requires more than generating attention; it requires knowing whether consumers actually want it before it reaches retail." "Ipsy Marketing Solutions [expands] how brands can partner with Ipsy through creator activations, experiential, paid media, and a unified full-funnel engine that helps brands launch smarter, build stronger consumer connections, and drive measurable retail growth." Ahead of a launch, the company helps brands get products to "relevant consumers." Kwong says it provides users with trusted reviews while gathering early signals around preferences and demand. Following a product's launch-to-market, partnering brands can continue to tap these insights to inform creator campaigns, experiential activations, and precision media that reach targeted audiences and drive sales. "What connects those stages is the ability to learn from how consumers are responding and use those insights to inform marketing. Ultimately, the goal is to help brands understand what's resonating and translate consumer engagement into measurable business impact." He underscores that Ipsy has already seen this kind of translation of insights into impact in its previously-mentioned work with Oliviaumma. Leveraging history in beauty Ipsy connects beauty brands with engaged consumers. According to Kwong, Ipsy is differentiated by its scale and trusted consumer relationships in its position to offer a marketing and sales engine. He emphasizes the company's multifaceted informational ecosystem comprising its large social community, broad customer touchpoints, as well as first-person data collated through customer reviews and creator partnerships. "These give us insight into how consumers discover and respond to beauty products - insights that brands can use to build more relevant audiences, generate authentic advocacy, and drive measurable campaigns," he says. Kwong tells Personal Care Insights that Oliviaumma's launch at Sephora illustrates how measurable marketing campaigns can translate to a key competitive advantage. "We leveraged our first-party audience insights and authentic content from Ipsy members who had trialed and reviewed the brand's products in a paid media campaign designed to drive qualified traffic to Sephora.com," he explains. In addition to the ROIs related to the event, the partnership connected Oliviaumma to consumers more directly. "This allows the brand to hear feedback at scale and better understand consumer preferences as it enters retail," says Kwong. "It demonstrates how Ipsy can turn product trial, audience insights, and trusted consumer advocacy into measurable retail performance." The company also recently used its first-party audience insights, paired with social content from community members who tried the products, to bolster the Sephora debut of K-beauty's Oliviaumma. The paid campaign exceeded industry benchmark click-through rates by two to threefold, boasts Ipsy. The company is currently working with brands such as ELF Beauty, Rodial, Elemis, and Dew of the Gods. First-party data helps Ipsy deliver targeted beauty marketing. Reflecting consumer interest. Kwong explains how Ipsy leverages its expertise in personalizing consumer experiences without relying on it as the sole driver of its insights. "Platforms working with consumer behavior and personalization need to be thoughtful about how different signals are interpreted, particularly when translating engagement into insights about broader demand." "We have a large and highly engaged beauty community generating feedback across product trials, reviews, and other customer touchpoints, which gives us the ability to look at consumer response across a broad set of experiences rather than treating any one exposure as definitive." He tells Personal Care Insights that Ipsy's diverse consumer data ecosystem allows the company to evaluate consumer response across more than one type of interaction, rather than conflating a standalone recommendation, trial, or review with broader demand. "Ultimately, our objective is to give brands a reliable view of genuine consumer interest that can help them make smarter decisions before, during, and after a launch," Kwong concludes.

Stitch Fix
Jun 15th, 2026
Stitch Fix appoints Sree Sreedhararaj as Chief Product and Technology Officer.

Stitch Fix appoints Sree Sreedhararaj as Chief Product and Technology Officer. Retail technology leader brings deep expertise in personalization, AI and digital innovation to the personal styling service Posted by Stitch Fix * Share this: SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2026 - Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX), the leading online personal styling service, today announced the appointment of Sree Sreedhararaj as Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). In this role, Sreedhararaj will lead the company's technology, product, data science, security and IT teams. "Sree brings deep technical expertise and a relentless focus on the customer," said Matt Baer, CEO, Stitch Fix. "Stitch Fix was built on the belief that shopping should feel personal, inspiring and effortless, and we use our rich client data, innovative and AI-driven technology platform and the trusted relationships our Stylists build with clients every day to deliver on this promise. As AI unlocks new possibilities, we believe the future of retail lies in using this technology to create more human connections. Sree has built technology platforms that make personalization at scale possible. That perspective will be critical as we shape the next era of retail." Sreedhararaj joins Stitch Fix from IPSY, the beauty membership platform, where he served as Chief Technology Officer. At IPSY, he led technology transformation, overseeing the development of its proprietary AI-powered personalization engine and the integration of agentic AI capabilities across the business. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Sephora. There, he modernized Sephora's digital infrastructure and led its AI integration and personalization strategy. Earlier in his career, Sreedhararaj held engineering leadership roles at Walmart and served as a consultant at Infosys, where he worked with retailers including Best Buy, Target, Nordstrom and Gap. "Stitch Fix has accomplished something truly unique in apparel retail," said Sreedhararaj. "The company cracked the code on combining human connection with technology to deliver a superior shopping experience. I'm excited to partner with Matt and the entire product and technology organization. Together, we will build on that foundation, continue innovating for our clients and help more people discover styles they will love." About Stitch Fix, Inc. Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX) is the leading online personal styling service that helps people discover the styles they will love that fit perfectly so they always look - and feel - their best. Few things are more personal than getting dressed, but finding clothing that fits and looks great can be a challenge. Stitch Fix solves that problem. By pairing expert stylists with best-in-class AI and recommendation algorithms, the company leverages its assortment of exclusive and national brands to meet each client's individual tastes and needs, making it convenient for clients to express their personal style without having to spend hours in stores or sifting through endless choices online. Stitch Fix, which was founded in 2011, is headquartered in San Francisco. Request the Stitch Fix Press Kit Press inquiry? Contact [email protected].

SmartBrief
Apr 9th, 2026
Women's sports see record investment as WNBA wins viewers

Women's sports see record investment as WNBA wins viewers. 2026-04-09 Makeup brand Ipsy has entered a three-year partnership with the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces, making it the team's official beauty partner. Investment and attention in women's sports have surged this year, with sponsorships reaching $127 million and ad impressions up 79% year over year. The WNBA's 2025 season reached a record average viewership of 1.2 million, reflecting growing fan engagement. Brands like Ipsy are capitalizing on this momentum, joining others in bridging beauty and sports through high-profile partnerships. The Las Vegas Aces, fresh from a championship and boasting a dedicated fanbase, exemplify this growth and present new opportunities for brand collaborations. Full story: NRF SmartBrief News and trends about the U.S. Retail industry Designed specifically for retail professionals, NRF SmartBrief is a free, daily email newsletter. It provides the latest need-to-know news and industry information that maximizes your time, giving you an edge over your competition.