Sr. Project Manager, Product Introduction; NPI); Hybrid

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 This is a hybrid position with a combination of remote work and onsite work at our HQ in Draper, Utah with the work arrangement determined by business needs.

Purple is building its next generation of products, and how we bring products to market matters as much as what we build. We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to drive the New Product Introduction (NPI) process from concept to commercialization for our Gel Flex Grid comfort products.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product, you'll drive the process execution across Product Management, Development, Engineering, Quality, Sourcing, Operations, and Marketing. In addition to owning new product timelines, you'll own and optimize the process itself: making stages, decisions, communication, status reports, and handoffs crystal clear, refining systems and putting automation to work so teams spend less time chasing status and more time innovating.

If you love building the system as much as running it, and you want to see your work in products that help improve people's lives, this role is for you.

Job Description How you’ll shape the future of comfort:

Drive NPI end to end. Own integrated plans for new products from concept to commercialization, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, launch timing. Turn Product Management's product goals into timelines, tasks and plans every team can commit to.

Own and refine our stage-gate process. Further refine clear gate criteria, documentation, deliverables, and decision rights so every team knows what  done  looks like at each phase. Keep the process as streamlined as possible and as thorough as necessary.

Drive builds and launch readiness. Coordinate prototype, and production-validation builds with Product, Development, Engineering, Quality, Sourcing, and Manufacturing. Manage RTS (ready to ship) dates, and keep go-to-market plans in lockstep.

See risk early and act fast. Surface schedule risks before they become problems. Lead trade-off discussions and escalate with clear options and a recommendation.

Make the process frictionless with automation. Find and implement tools and automations that eliminate manual status-chasing and reporting, such as auto-generated status summaries, meeting notes turned into action items, and early risk flags. Champion adoption across the team.

Make every launch better than the last. Lead post-launch retrospectives and turn lessons learned into templates, playbooks, and standards that speed up the next launch.

Create a single source of truth. Build dashboards and KPIs (gate on-time rate, schedule variance, development cycle time, launch readiness) and deliver concise, updates to senior leadership highlighting achievements, challenges, and actionable insights.

What we’re looking for7+ years of project or program management experience, including 5+ years leading NPI for physical, manufactured products (consumer products, durable…