Purple

Director

• Develop and implement a comprehensive IP licensing strategy aligned with Purple’s strategic growth priorities.
• Partner with Finance to develop pro forma P&L and business plans for the licensing strategy.
• Identify and evaluate licensing opportunities across new product categories, geographies, and brand extension channels.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of prospective licensees, from initial outreach through signed agreement.
• Lead negotiations for inbound and outbound licensing deals, including royalty structures, exclusivity terms, territory rights, and quality standards.
• Define category, territory, and channel licensing priorities by building white-space analyses, evaluating strategic fit, and recommending where Purple should (and should not) extend its brand and technologies.
• Partner with IP counsel to translate licensing priorities into IP portfolio recommendations (e.g., filing focus areas, claim scope needs, and brand protection priorities).
• Support IP counsel with commercialization inputs for patents, trademarks, and trade secrets (including GelFlex Grid® and related comfort technologies), ensuring licensing use cases and differentiation are reflected in protection strategies.
• Monitor market activity and competitive offerings for potential IP misuse; document findings and escalate to IP counsel, supporting investigations and enforcement decisions with business impact assessments as needed.
• Lead ongoing licensee compliance oversight (contractual obligations, brand standards, quality requirements), coordinating with Legal and internal stakeholders to address gaps and drive corrective action.
• Manage existing licensing relationships to maximize value and ensure performance standards are met.
• Lead licensee onboarding and go-to-market governance, including product briefs, internal approvals, packaging/claims review, and launch timelines to ensure a consistent brand and consumer experience.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for licensees, fostering strong, long-term partnerships.
• Collaborate with Sales/Wholesale teams to align licensing activity with broader channel strategy.
• Own licensing revenue forecasting, royalty tracking, and reporting.
• Develop business cases and ROI analyses for new licensing opportunities.
• Own royalty reporting governance, including defining reporting requirements, verifying statements, managing audit rights and periodic royalty audits, and ensuring accurate and timely royalty payments.
• Establish internal licensing governance, including an approval cadence, decision rights, escalation paths, and documentation standards to enable timely, well-controlled deal decisions.
• Partner with Product and R&D to identify licensable innovations, define licensing-ready use cases, and package technology value propositions for external partners.
• Partner with Marketing to set brand-extension guardrails (positioning, claims, packaging, and creative guidelines) and ensure licensed programs uphold Purple’s premium brand standards.
• Coordinate with Legal on licensing contract terms, including drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and executing agreements, and support issue resolution throughout the contract lifecycle.

Director of Licensing

Data Engineer

• Act as a mentor for junior members of the team.
• Assist newer team members in their assigned tasks and help them learn and grow in the Analytics space.
• Provide meaningful input into the direction the team should head.
• Lead large project discussions with stakeholders.
• Help gather requirements, create Jira tickets, and take initiatives from conception to completion.
• Maintain working knowledge of both Data Engineering and Data Governance processes, roles, and tools and help build collaboration between teams.
• Be a thought leader in the realms of DBT and Snowflake processes, architectures, modeling, and capabilities.
• Assist team members as needed with pull request approvals.
• Assess data model design accuracy, and efficiency, and lead refactoring efforts when necessary.

Data Engineer III

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Optimize and support financial systems
• Drive strategic planning, reporting, and analysis
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Implement, enhance, and maintain financial tools
• Ensure data integrity and accessibility

Senior Financial Analyst

Payroll

• Process and support daily off‑cycle, bi‑weekly, and monthly commission payrolls, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert for Workday Payroll, including payroll results interpretation, retroactive processing, and issue resolution.
• Ensure payroll practices comply with federal, state, and local regulations, including FLSA, wage and hour laws, payroll taxes, and garnishments.
• Support internal and external payroll audits and respond to audit requests as needed.
• Build, maintain, and enhance payroll controls to reduce risk and support audit readiness.
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, increase efficiency, and automate manual work where possible.
• Perform detailed payroll reviews using advanced Excel tools and techniques.
• Review payroll work completed by others on a periodic basis to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Create and maintain payroll documentation and standard operating procedures.
• Clearly explain complex payroll topics to payroll team members, internal partners, and employees when needed.

Director of Licensing

Data Engineer III

Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Payroll Analyst