Jobs at Material (materialplus.io)

Designs enterprise AI and agent architectures, including MCP servers, governed agent platforms, prompt harnesses, RAG and context-engineering systems. Authors architecture, security, SDLC, and governance artifacts; develops reusable AI accelerators; supports knowledge graph and ontology design; and creates enterprise architecture leadership materials. Acts as the technical liaison between enterprise architecture and service-line engineering teams, translating strategic decisions into practical implementation guidance.

Conceptualize and execute brand, product, digital, and experiential design work. Build scalable brand systems across physical and digital environments, establish visual direction, prepare production-ready files, and present creative solutions. Manage concurrent projects, collaborate with strategy and technology teams, guide junior designers, and ensure polished execution. The role requires strong conceptual thinking, brand-system expertise, art direction, communication, and cultural awareness across beauty, fashion, lifestyle, and consumer trends.

Leads project execution and client relationships across creative, strategic, and technical workstreams. Responsibilities include managing project plans, milestones, budgets, risks, stakeholder communication, team coordination, and delivery quality. The role supports larger initiatives while independently managing smaller projects, uses AI tools to improve workflows, and adapts to shifting priorities in a fast-paced agency environment.

The Paid Media Manager leads digital media strategy, planning, client presentations, campaign implementation, execution oversight, performance pacing, optimization, and media partner relationships. The role collaborates with measurement, insights, account management, and creative teams, supports new business efforts, and helps grow the media practice. Experience across search, social, video, display, and programmatic media is required, along with agency experience serving B2B and B2C clients.

Leads Material’s qualitative insights practice, setting its vision, growing revenue, developing senior client relationships, and championing qualitative capabilities in the marketplace. Oversees innovation, new methodologies, AI adoption, pricing, profitability, and high-quality client delivery. Builds and inspires a high-performing team while strengthening the organization’s qualitative selling capabilities and evolving differentiated offerings.

Manages multiple end-to-end quantitative market research and insights engagements, including questionnaire development, data collection, field management, processing, analysis, and reporting. Translates research data into visual narratives, actionable recommendations, and strategic insights for clients. Builds stakeholder relationships, collaborates with cross-functional teams and vendors, and mentors junior and mid-level team members. Requires strong analytical, communication, project management, and client relationship skills.

Leads social strategy for enterprise brands, developing audience-centric frameworks, platform-specific content ecosystems, creator opportunities, and culturally relevant storytelling. Serves as a senior client advisor, presents to executive stakeholders, translates consumer research and social listening into recommendations, establishes measurement frameworks, and partners with creative, insights, analytics, media, and client services teams to drive brand growth and engagement.

Lead content strategy for large-scale websites, digital products, and digital experiences. Develop content hierarchies, user pathways, messaging, information architectures, content models, taxonomies, guidelines, and CMS requirements. Conduct workshops, research, audits, and gap analyses while partnering with UX, design, strategy, and technology teams. Manage content processes, calendars, and systems, and mentor junior team members.

Leads data science and marketing analytics engagements using AI, machine learning, behavioral data, CRM, CDP, transactional, digital, and survey data. Directs modeling across segmentation, propensity, churn, customer lifetime value, and engagement analytics. Translates complex findings into executive recommendations, leads client workstreams, supports business development, mentors analysts and data scientists, and partners with research, strategy, technology, and data engineering teams.

Supports and owns medium- to high-complexity market research engagements, including questionnaire development, link testing, data quality control, field management, tabulation, charting, slide creation, and insight synthesis. Delivers research findings and recommendations for clients while managing multiple deadlines, collaborating with internal teams and field partners, and identifying patterns and solutions. Requires strong analytical, strategic, communication, project management, and problem-solving skills.

Own day-to-day execution of medium- to high-complexity quantitative and qualitative market research engagements. Responsibilities include questionnaire development, link testing, field management, data running and tabulation, quality control, slide and chart creation, and research synthesis. The role supports insight development for major clients and requires strong analytical, communication, organizational, and collaboration skills, with opportunities to use AI and develop leadership capabilities.

The Senior Director of Strategy leads and shapes the strategy function, driving client engagement, mentoring strategists, and ensuring strategic coherence across design deliverables.

Develop and execute brand systems across physical and digital touchpoints, lead conceptual and art-directed work, produce production-ready files and guidelines, integrate motion thinking, manage projects to delivery, present to clients, and mentor junior designers while collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams.

Lead enterprise platform architecture and modernization, define standards and roadmaps, provide hands-on technical leadership for AWS Glue/PostgreSQL/Snowflake data platforms, mentor engineers, run incident reviews and RCAs, drive reliability, observability, CI/CD and security, and serve as primary EST-hours engineering contact for client stakeholders. Travel ~10–15%.

Lead new-logo acquisition and build a pipeline via outreach and network activation. Run discovery meetings, qualify opportunities, and develop tailored proposals. Build senior client relationships, contribute to go-to-market strategy, and orchestrate internal teams and SMEs to close complex, consultative engagements across sectors and service lines.