Sr. Manager, Marketing Operations (Hybrid)

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Lehi, UT, USA
Hybrid
115K-135K Annually
Senior level
Retail
The Role
Own integrated marketing planning and campaign delivery across brand, creative, digital, retail, and wholesale. Manage master calendars, workbacks, capacity planning, operating reviews, risk logs, workflows, reporting coordination, vendor operations, and marketing documentation. Partner cross-functionally with Analytics, Finance, Legal, sales channels, and marketing leadership to prioritize work, improve processes, and ensure campaigns launch effectively.
Summary Generated by Built In

Purple is a digitally-native vertical brand with a mission to help people feel and live better through innovative comfort solutions. To us, comfort means more than great products, it means empowering every employee to feel comfortable being themselves. We believe your career at Purple will be a one-of-a-kind “Career in Comfort” because our workforce is one-of-a-kind. We are committed to a culture of collaboration where every voice is heard and understood. As an innovation company at our core, we believe a diversity workforce brings better insights, solutions and products and serves as the backbone to bettering our company. Join with us as we add to our team of exceptional individuals who will help us take over the world — one mattress at a time.

Compensation

The compensation target for this role is: $114,800 - $135,000

Job Summary

Purple is looking for a Sr. Manager of Marketing Operations who thrives at the intersection of planning and execution. Someone who can turn approved strategy into coordinated plans with clear deliverables, owners, milestones, and dependencies across brand, creative, digital, retail, and wholesale — and keep a high-output team moving without slowing it down.

This role sits at the center of our marketing organization. You'll report to the VP of Brand Management and work shoulder-to-shoulder with brand, creative, and demand gen leadership, plus partners across sales channels, Analytics, Finance, and Legal — sequencing work against real capacity and making sure what gets decided in the room actually gets delivered.

We move fast. Priorities shift. We're a publicly traded company that still operates with a startup engine, and this role is built for someone who doesn't just tolerate that reality, but is energized by it. You'll own the operating cadence, the workbacks, and the workflows that let everyone else spend less time chasing status and more time on the work that drives growth.

If you're the person who spots the calendar collision three weeks out, can say what a new request will cost the team before anyone commits to it, and builds the playbook before anyone asks for one, this was written for you.

Job Description

How you’ll shape the future of comfort:

What You'll Own  

  • Integrated planning: Translate approved marketing strategy into coordinated plans, with clear deliverables, owners, milestones and dependencies across brand, creative, digital, retail and wholesale. 

  • Capacity and prioritization: Maintain visibility into workload and resource constraints; recommend sequencing and tradeoffs, and surface the impact of new requests or changes before teams commit. 

  • Campaign delivery: Own the master marketing calendar and campaign workbacks, incorporating channel lead times, creative development, production, approvals and launch-readiness checks. 

  • Operating cadence: Lead focused planning and status reviews, maintain decision and risk logs, and drive follow-through with accountable owners. Escalate issues that require leadership decisions. 

  • Workflow and systems: Establish practical intake, briefing, approval and change-management processes in the team's project-management platform; support adoption and continuous improvement. 

  • Measurement coordination: Partner with Analytics and channel owners to establish reporting requirements, consolidate performance updates and schedule reviews that translate findings into clear optimization actions. 

  • Vendor and financial operations: Coordinate vendor onboarding, contract review, purchase orders and invoices; track commitments and deliverables with Finance, Legal and marketing owners. 

  • Foundations and knowledge management: Build reusable launch playbooks, operational documentation and asset-governance standards, partnering with Brand and Creative on approved content and library organization. 

  

Who You Are  

  • A planner at heart. You think in dependencies and lead times. Give you a launch date and you can work backward to what has to be true this week. 

  • Proactive, not reactive. You anticipate what's needed before being asked. You see the collision coming, send the reminder, and build the process because someone has to and it might as well be done right. 

  • Comfortable with change. Priorities shift here, sometimes overnight. You re-sequence quickly, reset without friction, and help the team do the same. Ambiguity is just part of the pace. 

  • Diplomatically assertive. You can hold a deadline with a creative director and push back on a vendor timeline without burning the relationship. You know how to get things done through people you don't manage. 

  • Clear-eyed about capacity. You know what the team can actually absorb, and you'd rather have the hard tradeoff conversation up front than watch three things ship late. 

  • Fluent across channels. You understand enough about paid media, lifecycle, creative production, retail, and wholesale to translate between those teams, even if you haven't run those channels yourself. 

  • A clear communicator. Whether it's a status review, a workback, a risk log, or a vendor brief, your communication is tight, actionable, and complete. 

 

 

What we’re looking for:

  • 5-7 years in marketing operations, marketing program management, or a senior cross-functional coordination role, ideally in a consumer brand, DTC, 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 very different lead times 

  • Experience designing intake, briefing, approval, and change-management processes in Wrike (or Asana, Monday, Jira) that teams adopted and kept using 

  • Working knowledge of capacity and resource planning — you've maintained workload visibility and made sequencing recommendations leadership acted on 

  • Comfort working in marketing dashboards and performance reporting: pulling what you need, sanity-checking it, 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 

 

Even Better if...

  • You've built launch playbooks or operational documentation that outlived the campaign they were written for 

  • You've run the operating cadence for a marketing leadership team: planning reviews, decision and risk logs, and follow-through that actually closed 

  • You've operated across both DTC and wholesale or retail, and understand how differently their calendars and approval paths behave 

  • You've partnered closely with brand and creative teams on approval workflows and asset governance 

  • You've been the person who says “not this quarter” and made it stick without damaging the relationship 

  • You've thrived in a fast-moving, high-change environment where the roadmap shifts and execution still has to be excellent 

 

Physical Requirements:

Physical activities may occasionally include:  

  • Remaining in stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods of time.  

  • Adjusting or moving objects up to 15 pounds in all directions. 

 

Physical activities may constantly include:  

  • Communicating with others to exchange information. 

  • Repetitive motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers. 

  • Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of work assigned. 

 

Environmental Conditions may occasionally include:  

  • Noisy open office environment 

BENEFITS AND PERKS

  • Medical, Dental, Vision

  • 401(k) Match

  • Flexible PTO

  • Earn a Mattress

  • Purple Swag

  • Amazing Purple Products

WHY WORK AT PURPLE?

  • Make your mark: We value innovative thinking. At Purple, you will be empowered to bring your ideas to life as we work together to improve people’s lives through comfort.

  • Gain unique experience: Be a part of one of the fastest growing companies in Utah! The contributions you make will matter at Purple as the company continues to grow with you.

  • Awesome culture: Join the tight-knit team at Purple and you can enjoy working alongside industry experts, making close friends, and annual employee appreciation events.

Purple provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Skills Required

  • 5-7 years of experience in marketing operations, marketing program management, or senior cross-functional coordination
  • Experience in a consumer brand, direct-to-consumer, or fast-paced e-commerce environment
  • 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
  • Experience designing intake, briefing, approval, and change-management processes in Wrike, Asana, Monday, Jira, or similar platforms
  • Working knowledge of capacity and resource planning, including workload visibility and sequencing recommendations
  • Experience with marketing dashboards and performance reporting, including translating findings into optimization actions
  • Experience coordinating vendor onboarding, contracts, purchase orders, and invoices with Finance and Legal
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • Experience building launch playbooks or operational documentation
  • Experience running marketing leadership operating cadences, planning reviews, decision logs, and risk logs
  • Experience working across direct-to-consumer and wholesale or retail channels
  • Experience partnering with brand and creative teams on approval workflows and asset governance
  • Experience working in a fast-moving, high-change environment
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The Company
HQ: Lehi, UT
975 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Welcome to Purple — home of the one, the only, the Purple Grid™. Ranked #1 in Customer Satisfaction with bed in a box mattresses by J.D. Power, including best in both support and comfort! We’re a one-of-a-kind innovation brand that is on a mission to meaningfully improve lives by helping Every Body get the comfort they deserve and the support they need. Our premium comfort innovation products start in the bedroom and extend beyond to provide optimal comfort everywhere you go. With a variety of mattresses, bedding, bases, seat cushions, dog beds, and more, Purple is quickly becoming the iconic color of true comfort, true innovation, and truly feeling great. While most new mattress companies only focus on just a simpler mattress buying experience with the same foam mattresses, Purple is committed to simply making a better mattress (with the better buying experience, to boot!). The only mattress with the Purple Grid™, Purple is instantly soft where you want it and firm where you need it – all at once. It's the comfort you crave, the support your back needs. Plus, 1,500+ open airways help dissipate body heat rather than trapping it, so you don't sleep hot. It all started in 1989 when two engineer brothers, Tony and Terry Pearce, set out with a mission to invent technology and create local jobs that meaningfully improve the lives of everyone involved. Over the last 30+ years, the Brothers Pearce have revolutionized the comfort industry by innovating various No Pressure® cushioning materials used in everything from wheelchairs and critical care hospital beds to sporting goods and high-end mattresses. Then, in September of 2015, they successfully launched The No-Compromise Purple® Mattress on Kickstarter, and it's been uphill from there — continually inventing, improving, and creating ways to make the world a more comfortable place.

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