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At Emma, we're on a mission to lead, disrupt and reinvent the sleep-tech industry.

Are you up for the challenge?

At Emma, we offer the perfect

conditions for fast, mutual growth.

Make
an impact

Question the status quo and make change happen —

our flat hierarchy ensures everyone's ideas are heard.

Take
ownership

At Emma, you take full responsibility of projects. Instead

of asking for approval, you decicde, share, and act.

Test, learn,
& grow

We maximise your growth by maintaining

a strong test-and-learn culture.

What we are looking into is that these people have drive and

passion, and that they are willing to take calculated risks

and drive things forward themselves ... This is, in a nutshell,

what we are seeking from an entrepreneurial perspective.

Manuel Müller & Dennis Schmoltzi

Co-founders & CEOs

We are looking for leaders whose

drive and ambition match our own.

Our DNA

Challenge the status quo

Entrepreneurial
Leadership

Entrepreneurial leadership means you ignite change by questioning the status quo and setting ambitious goals. Powered by strong strategic thinking and business judgment, you challenge every idea and constantly seek new opportunities to create, innovate and, sometimes, disrupt.
Solve challenging problems

Thought
Leadership

Thought leadership means you combine logic, structure, and generating hypotheses to create leading solutions for complex and challenging problems. Combining this with a great and growing depth of knowledge, you help develop new best practices.
Execute ideas

Executional
Leadership

Executional leadership means you take full ownership of your work and are proactive and eager to put ideas into motion. It ensures you don’t get stuck on theoretical problems, but instead work towards pragmatic solutions.
Lead and collaborate

People
Leadership

People leadership means you embody the Emma DNA and can easily collaborate with people of all different personalities across the organisation. By quickly grasping the strengths and weaknesses of others, you can both effectively lead teams and work well within them.

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2013

Where it
all began

The journey began with our two founders, Manuel Müller and Dennis Schmoltzi, who were friends that shared the same vision: to improve people's lives by changing the way they sleep. At that time, the mattress market was still almost entirely based offline and characterised by products that were difficult to differentiate and prices that weren't transparent. As a first step, our founders wanted to ease the shopping process by taking it online.

Yearly revenue: €5.3 thousand
Team members: 7

2013

It starts
small—literally

The first move was launching our multi-brand platform Dormando. In the beginning, we only sold other brands and the first sales were two Dunlopillo mattresses. Funnily enough, we ended up buying this brand in 2016. In these early stages, we were a team of just 7 and were working out of a tiny, 14 m² office which we nicknamed ”The Foxhole".

Yearly revenue: €5.3 thousand
Team members: 7

2014

Growth
begins

As our business model proved successful, we extended our product portfolio and, already convinced that the long-term solution would be omnichannel, we opened a showroom in Offenbach called Bettzeit. This also became our new office—space we desperately needed as we added 13 new members to our team.

Yearly revenue: €538 thousand
Team members: 20

2015

Emma
is born

While busy running and scaling Dormando, we decided to branch out and create our own brand alongside. We had the background needed to develop a great product: Manuel's previous industry experience with medical mattresses and our 2-year market experience with Dormando. Therefore, three months and many late nights later, Emma® was born. We'd recognised early on that the principle of ‘trying it out’ is the key to success—an idea that still determines our daily business today. This led us to offer consumers the novelty of mattress trials that lasted 100 nights with free delivery and returns. By now, we were at 55 team members and so we moved once again—this time to a 285 m² office space.

Yearly revenue: €3 million
Team members: 55

2016

Expanding into
new markets

We've always been ambitious and had our sights set on global growth. So, after launching the Emma mattress in Germany the previous year, we then launched it in Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands and the UK as well. We also acquired Dunlopillo's brand rights for Germany and Austria. Setting the base for further growth by leveraging our ability in creating superior sleep products, we built-up an in-house Research & Development team. With a wide variety of skills, this team pushes the boundaries of what material, technology and neuroscience can do for sleep.

Yearly revenue: €20 million
Team members: 85

2017

Emma
breaks even

This was the year where the Emma mattress won 2 awards: UK's Which? and Netherlands' Consumentenbond. This was proof of the quality of our product and that online mattress suppliers could successfully compete with traditional brands. Emma is a team with “skin in the game” and we value the impact of testing over endless planning—this ensures our accelerated growth. As a result, we expanded into 5 more countries and launched Emma in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The decision to expand paid off and our yearly revenue reached €33 million—meaning Emma had now broken even.

Yearly revenue: €33 million
Team members: 130

2018

Creation of
Emma Sleep University

Our growth continued to climb as we launched Emma in Sweden, Denmark, China, the USA and India. And at 176 people, we had outgrown our office once again and moved to a new 2,061 m² space. This accelerated growth is largely thanks to the "Emma way"—we're agile, execution-orientated and move at a fast and efficient pace. We decided we needed a way to transfer this mindset to future Emmies. The solution? We founded the Emma Sleep University.

Yearly revenue: €80 million
Team members: 176

2019

Emma is online
in 20+ markets

The year began with us exhibiting at various trade fairs like imm Cologne (Germany) and Salone del Mobile (Italy). We were on an omnichannel-mission to disrupt the sleep industry. As a result, we launched our new Dunlopillo Smart Select Series which introduced our patented graphite technology to the market. Emma was now online in over 20 countries after launching in Ireland, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and Canada. Intent on becoming a true international player, we opened Emma Southeast Asia in Manila. To stay focused, we decided to close Dormando and exclusively sell our own products.

Yearly revenue: €150 million
Team members: 290

2020

Exponential
growth

Emma was going from strength to strength. In a single year, we sold 1.5 million mattresses and grew our yearly revenue by 170%. With this, we outpaced several competitors and established ourselves as the world's leading D2C sleep brand. Our monumental success didn't go unnoticed and in April 2020 Emma merged with the Haniel Group. With Haniel as a strong partner at our side, we saw it as an opportunity to move to a whole new level of growth.

Yearly revenue: €405 million
Team members: 528

2021

Reinventing
sleep

The dedicated work of Emma's Research and Development team meant sleep entered a whole new sphere as we launched Emma Motion—the world's most advanced smart mattress. Using innovative and proprietary technology, we now offer customers a product that silently adjusts to their sleeping positions throughout the night. With the launch of this mattress, we took a huge step towards fulfilling our mission: to change the way people sleep. Soon we'll provide an individual sunrise for everyone—stay tuned.

Join an international

community of

talent and diversity

60
Languages spoken
782
Employees in 2021
33
Countries we operate in
4
Hubs worldwide

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Our DNA

At Emma, we do things a bit differently. Find out what makes us who we are.

Our step-by-step
hiring process

Get to know our hiring process before you apply.

Where your ideashave impactand your careercan grow

Makean impact

Takeownership

Test, learn,& grow

EntrepreneurialLeadership

ThoughtLeadership

ExecutionalLeadership

PeopleLeadership

Where itall began

It startssmall—literally

Growthbegins

Emmais born

Expanding intonew markets

Emmabreaks even

Creation ofEmma Sleep University

Emma is onlinein 20+ markets

Exponentialgrowth

Reinventingsleep