Vice President of Growth, Purple
Public Sector
+ Company bonus
Indoor location services platform
Open for applications
Indoor location services platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Company bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
Purple is on a mission to make sure physical spaces thrive.
Role
Who you are
- This role demands a leader who combines strategic presence with hands-on execution — someone who can engage at board level, shape policy conversations, and deliver meaningful commercial and social results
- A senior commercial or growth leader with 10+ years’ experience in public sector engagement, strategic sales, or large-scale technology growth
- Experienced operating at VP or executive level, with a proven record of delivering results through complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Deep understanding of public sector decision-making, procurement, and digital transformation agendas across government, healthcare, or education
- Strong track record of influencing senior policymakers and board-level stakeholders
- Expert relationship builder and communicator, able to represent Purple’s brand with authority, diplomacy, and authenticity
- Commercially minded, strategically agile, and motivated by impact — capable of balancing business growth with social value creation
- Experienced in technology, SaaS, or digital infrastructure, ideally within a high-growth or mission-led organisation
- Passionate about connectivity as a force for good, advancing equality of access and inclusion through innovation
What the job involves
- We’re seeking an accomplished and visionary Vice President of Growth to lead Purple’s public sector growth strategy across the UK and selected international markets
- This senior role will be responsible for shaping and executing the company’s growth agenda — building trusted relationships across government, healthcare, education, and major public infrastructure sectors, and driving large-scale initiatives that align with Purple’s mission to connect people, places, and communities through intelligent, inclusive WiFi and data-driven connectivity solutions
- Reporting directly to the SVP Global Sales, you’ll bring exceptional commercial acumen, deep public sector experience, and the strategic influence to accelerate Purple’s impact in digital inclusion and connected community transformation
- Define and lead Purple’s public‐sector growth strategy, initially focusing on regional government and progressively expanding to national and international government bodies
- Execute a sales quota: meet or exceed annual revenue targets derived from government engagements across all tiers (regional, national, international)
- Build and sustain executive‐level relationships with government, healthcare, education, and smart‐city stakeholders, ensuring alignment with strategic growth goals
- Develop and lead go-to-market plans targeting government agencies, leveraging proven insights from regional success to scale nationally and / or internationally
- Identify, engage and close sales opportunities with regional, national and international government organisations, translating these into measurable commercial outcomes and societal impact
- Collaborate cross‐functionally with Product, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to ensure solutions meet government needs, support win‐themes, and drive repeatable growth
- Influence and guide policy and procurement frameworks relevant to digital infrastructure, connectivity and data-driven transformation to maximise our government sales potential
- Lead and mentor a high-performing growth team, ensuring consistent execution, quota attainment and expansion of government‐market penetration
- This role represents a unique opportunity to shape the growth of a purpose-driven technology company at a national and international level, driving real impact in digital inclusion and intelligent connectivity
Our take
As multi-store businesses look to digitise their brick-and-mortar operations, they can run into difficulties providing wayfinding services to customers, or managing dispersed real-world assets. Purple AI helps these businesses to improve store connectivity, with location services such as in-store customer WiFi provision, wayfinding and asset tracking solutions.
Of particular note, Purple has worked with a number of hospitals to meet the complex connectivity and asset management needs of employees and patients. Boasting the ability to provide wayfinding solutions for these facilities - in which patients and visitors navigate multiple floors to reach the right ward - showcases the utility of Purple's suite.
Alongside its wide net of hospital clients, Purple provides WiFi solutions for the likes of McDonald’s, Pizza Express, and the Hard Rock Cafe - a lofty client list in terms of brand popularity. As location services become more important across the board, the company will likely have the chance to build on this established presence even further.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2023
$14.1m
LATE VC
Jun 2017
$0.4m
GRANT
Total funding: $22.5m
Company benefits
- Remote first business - work from home (with regular opportunities to get together face to face)
- Flexible working & a great company culture - bring your best self to work
- Emphasis on learning and development - progress your career
- 23 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with 1 more day each year - and the option to buy extra days
- 4 volunteering days each year - give something back to the community
- Company bonus - 5% of salary
- Private Healthcare & Long Term Incentive Plan after 12 months’ service
Company HQ
Manchester, UK
Leadership
Gavin Whedon
(CEO)Currently Non-Executive Director at Syrenis. Previously Founder and CEO at Applied Language Solutions, and Strategic Accounts Director at thebigword.
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