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Purple Innovation

Direct-to-consumer mattresses with GelFlex Grid

Senior Manager - Marketing Operations

Full-Time
$114.8k - $135k+ 401(k) Match
Senior
Bachelor's
Draper, UT, USA
Hybrid
Growth & Marketing

About the job

Requirements
  • 5–7 years in marketing operations, marketing program management, or a senior cross-functional coordination role, ideally in a consumer brand, direct-to-consumer, or fast-paced e-commerce environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to run complex, cross-functional marketing programs with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
  • Hands-on experience building campaign workbacks and owning a master marketing calendar across channels with different lead times.
  • Experience designing intake, briefing, approval, and change-management processes in Wrike or a similar platform such as Asana, Monday, or Jira, with demonstrated team adoption.
  • Working knowledge of capacity and resource planning, including maintaining workload visibility and making sequencing recommendations acted on by leadership.
  • Comfort working with marketing dashboards and performance reporting, including gathering and validating data and translating findings into optimization actions with channel owners.
  • Experience coordinating vendor onboarding, contracts, purchase orders, and invoices alongside Finance and Legal.
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Responsibilities
  • Translate approved marketing strategy into coordinated plans with clear deliverables, owners, milestones, and dependencies across brand, creative, digital, retail, and wholesale.
  • Maintain visibility into workload and resource constraints; recommend sequencing and tradeoffs, and surface the impact of new requests or changes before teams commit.
  • Own the master marketing calendar and campaign workbacks, incorporating channel lead times, creative development, production, approvals, and launch-readiness checks.
  • Lead focused planning and status reviews, maintain decision and risk logs, drive follow-through with accountable owners, and escalate issues requiring leadership decisions.
  • Establish practical intake, briefing, approval, and change-management processes in the team's project-management platform; support adoption and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with Analytics and channel owners to establish reporting requirements, consolidate performance updates, and schedule reviews that translate findings into optimization actions.
  • Coordinate vendor onboarding, contract review, purchase orders, and invoices; track commitments and deliverables with Finance, Legal, and marketing owners.
  • Build reusable launch playbooks, operational documentation, and asset-governance standards, partnering with Brand and Creative on approved content and library organization.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building launch playbooks or operational documentation that remains useful beyond the campaign for which it was created.
  • Experience running the operating cadence for a marketing leadership team, including planning reviews, decision and risk logs, and follow-through.
  • Experience across both direct-to-consumer and wholesale or retail, with understanding of their different calendars and approval paths.
  • Experience partnering closely with brand and creative teams on approval workflows and asset governance.
  • Experience setting and enforcing priorities, including declining work without damaging relationships.
  • Experience thriving in a fast-moving, high-change environment where roadmaps shift while execution standards remain high.
  • Experience in a consumer brand, direct-to-consumer, or fast-paced e-commerce environment.

About the company

Purple Innovation designs comfort technology for sleep, centered on the GelFlex Grid made from Hyper-Elastic Polymer. The GelFlex Grid uses a grid of soft, supportive columns with over 1,400 air channels to dissipate heat and cradle pressure points like hips and shoulders. The company sells mattresses, pillows, and bedding accessories mostly through direct-to-consumer online channels, with growing wholesale and retail stores. Its goal is to improve sleep quality by combining science-backed materials with an omnichannel strategy to reach health-conscious consumers.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Lehi, Utah

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • Q1 2026 showroom sales rose 5%, with comparable sales up 7%.
  • Purple opened new showroom plans in Jacksonville and expanded wholesale partnerships in 2026.
  • Management reaffirmed 2026 adjusted EBITDA of $20–$30 million after Q1 cost cuts.

What critics are saying

  • Q2 2026 guidance fell to $420 million-$440 million after Q1 weakness.
  • Management disclosed substantial doubt about Purple's going-concern status in August 2026.
  • The 2025 Utah factory closures and 2026 strategic review show a business fighting survival.

What makes Purple Innovation unique

  • Purple's Hyper-Elastic Polymer and GelFlex Grid remain proprietary mattress technologies.
  • Purple Royale at Mattress Firm gave the brand premium shelf space in 12,000 slots.
  • Licensing with Brandgenuity extends Purple into furniture, accessories, and travel products.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Paid Vacation

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

2%
Crain Communications
May 5th, 2026
Positive response to new products at Purple, but profits fall again.

Positive response to new products at Purple, but profits fall again. May 05, 2026 01:15 PM GMT+1 Utah, US - Revenues were down again in Q1 at Purple Innovation, falling 8.1% quarter-on-quarter to $95.7m. The decline, the company said, was largely driven by softness in e-commerce and lower wholesale revenue, although this was partially offset by growth in showroom sales. The latest edition of Urethanes Technology International is now available Staying current is easy with newsletters delivered straight to your inbox.

Retail Dive
Apr 29th, 2026
Purple taps former La-Z-Boy exec as CFO.

Purple taps former La-Z-Boy exec as CFO. The mattress company also reported a miss on Q1 revenue and decreased its full-year outlook due to an accounting adjustment. Published April 29, 2026 Dive brief: * Purple Innovation's CFO Todd Vogensen is exiting the company Friday, according to a Tuesday press release. The executive is leaving Purple "to pursue a opportunity closer to home, where he will support transaction readiness at a private company," CEO Rob DeMartini said in a statement. * Bob Lucian, former CFO of La-Z-Boy, has replaced Vogensen effective this past Monday. Prior to La-Z-Boy, Lucian served as CFO of Coty's North America Professional Beauty division. * Purple's Q1 net revenue missed expectations, dropping 8.1% year over year to $95.7 million, mostly driven by declines in e-commerce and wholesale revenue that was partly offset by growth in showrooms.The mattress brand's net loss worsened nearly 60%, ballooning to $30.5 million for the quarter. Dive insight: Purple's CFO transition is happening while the company battles declining sales and continues to evaluate strategic alternatives. "We've recruited a highly accomplished CFO with direct experience in our market dynamics to lead the company's next chapter," said Rob DeMartini, CEO of Purple Innovation. "Bob brings decades of financial and operational leadership across branded consumer businesses, including deep experience in retail and manufacturing, and a proven track record of driving operational discipline, strengthening financial performance and leading transformation. We are confident he will play a key role as we continue to execute our strategy and drive long-term value creation." Purple lowered its full-year outlook on Tuesday, now expecting fiscal year 2026 revenue in a range from $465 million to $485 million compared to the prior estimated range of $500 million to $520 million. That's due to an accounting adjustment the company made related to required net reporting of certain wholesale transactions, which also decreased the company's reported revenues. The brand's Q1 operating expenses declined 6.3% to $52 million, and DeMartini sounded upbeat on improved operating efficiency. "During the first quarter, we continued to build on the progress we made at the end of last year, with improving consistency across our business and solid performance in our showroom and wholesale channels," the CEO said in a statement. "While total sales were modestly down, e-commerce trends improved sequentially, and we are seeing early benefits from the more disciplined execution and the actions we've taken to strengthen the business."

Yahoo Finance
Mar 30th, 2026
Purple to report Q4 earnings Tuesday, revenue expected to grow 8.4% year on year

Purple, a bedding and comfort retailer, will report earnings on Tuesday before market open. Analysts expect revenue to grow 8.4% year-on-year, reversing the 11.6% decline recorded in the same quarter last year. Last quarter, Purple reported revenues of $118.8 million, missing analyst expectations but delivering strong beats on EBITDA and earnings per share estimates. Analysts have largely reconfirmed their estimates over the past 30 days. The consumer discretionary home furnishings sector has underperformed recently, with share prices down 7.5% on average over the last month. Purple has bucked the trend, rising 6.5% during that period. The stock currently trades at $0.71, below the average analyst price target of $2.53.

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PURPLE names Group Account Director

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Licensing International
Apr 2nd, 2025
Purple Chooses Brandgenuity to Launch Global Wellness Licensing Effort

Purple chooses Brandgenuity to launch global wellness licensing effort.