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# Sr. Material Research at Material Bank

- **Company:** Material Bank
- **Location:** South Florida / Boston, MA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/materialbank/jobs/7990241003?gh_jid=7990241003

## Job description

Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace for the architecture and design industry. Operating in 37 countries, our platform has become the standard for design professionals around the globe. Every day, Material Bank connects thousands of designers with tens of thousands of materials from leading brands. Material Bank is the fastest and most powerful way for design professionals to search, sample, and specify materials.

Material Bank is seeking a Sr. Material Researcher to bring deep material expertise and sound judgment to how products are represented across the marketplace's catalog. The role combines hands-on catalog work with research, category development, and standards improvement.

This is a rare chance to shape how an entire category is structured and specified, not just clean up individual records. Decisions made here reach thousands of architects and designers using Material Bank's marketplace every day.

Success looks like a catalog that gets more accurate and more usable over time — through standards, taxonomy, and structural improvements that keep the same issues from recurring.

Position will be a hybrid role located out of Boca Raton, FL. Open to candidates in the Boston, MA area as well.

## What you'll do

- Own complex material and product questions that require expert judgment, and the high-value enrichment where source data and tooling fall short.
- Review complex brand and product updates, resolve the ambiguity, and add intelligence that makes the record more useful.
- Lead or support new category onboarding, including the attributes, controlled vocabularies, and hierarchy placement needed to represent the category well.
- Research emerging materials, standards, and designer expectations in your assigned domains, then translate findings into practical recommendations on attributes, CVLs, taxonomy, and terminology.
- Investigate search and discovery problems where product data may be contributing.
- Propose changes to catalog standards when the current model turns out to be incomplete or misleading, and spot the recurring patterns that should become broader catalog improvements.
- Document your reasoning and evidence on non-obvious decisions so the knowledge is reusable.
- Coach peers, review complex work, and strengthen the team without managing anyone — escalating cross-category decisions rather than creating isolated local conventions.

## What you'll bring

- Deep expertise in architectural materials, building products, interior products, product specification, or materials research.
- The ability to research incomplete or conflicting information and reach a defensible conclusion without overstating what the evidence supports.
- Real understanding of how designers and architects evaluate, compare, and specify materials.
- Structural thinking about categories, attributes, controlled values, and how product data supports discovery.
- Comfort working directly in catalog systems and using tooling as part of the research workflow.
- Writing that explains why a decision is right, what supports it, and where uncertainty remains.
- The judgment to work independently on complex topics while recognizing when an issue reaches past your assigned category.

Especially valuable:

- Background in architecture, interior design, material libraries, specification, or a manufacturer's product or technical team.
- Experience with PIM, product catalogs, faceted search, or structured product content.
- Depth in at least one material domain paired with the ability to quickly learn unfamiliar ones.
- Mentoring peers or leading defined research workstreams without formal people management.

What you’ll get from us:

- Our people: We are a growth-driven team that values efficiency, builds smart automation, operates in small empowered teams, and moves quickly from idea to execution.
- Relaxation and Celebrations: Flexible PTO, Sick Days, Paid National Holidays, and even more (ask us about this when we connect).
- Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
- Plan for your Retirement: 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
- Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities.
- Growth: We’ll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
- Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Technologies has embraced a hybrid  working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.

Material Bank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran or disability status or other status protected under any applicable federal, state or local law.

## About Material Bank

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace that enables architects and designers to search, sample, and specify design materials with free, carbon-neutral overnight delivery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D; $325M+ total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, USA (with offices in Boca Raton, FL; Paris, France; Olive Branch, MS; and a New York office coming soon)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Adam I. Sandow (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Design Services, Architectural & Interior Design Materials Marketplace, Logistics
- **Target customers**: B2B — architects, interior designers, and design firms (120,000+ registered users); also serves manufacturers (500+ leading brands) seeking to get products specified
- **Mission or purpose**: To redefine the future of design by making the material search, sampling, and specification process fast, sustainable, and centralized — committed to net zero by 2040, 100% carbon neutral since 2020.

## Products & Services
- **Material Search & Sampling Platform**: A web-based marketplace where designers can search 500,000+ products across 300+ categories from 650+ brands. Orders placed by midnight ET are shipped in a single box and delivered by 10:30 AM the next day — always free for designers.
- **Brand Discovery & Specification**: Tools for designers to save materials, create boards, collaborate with colleagues, and communicate directly with brand representatives for product details, lead times, and quotes.
- **Manufacturer Services**: Brand exposure to 100,000+ design professionals, leads on-demand, sample reclamation, and massive brand awareness — all to help manufacturers drive specification.
- **Sustainability Initiatives**: Carbon-neutral shipping, sample reclamation, and a CEU webinar series (“Design Your Impact”) on sustainable specifying.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $325M+ total funding (latest round: $175M in 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not fully disclosed but backed by major venture firms (TechCrunch reported $28M Series A in 2021; $175M round in 2022). Partners include 500+ leading brands like Armstrong Flooring, Kimball International, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: 120,000+ registered users, 560,000+ separate design projects, 33,000+ design firms & corporations, 500+ leading brands, 4.2M+ packages saved from being sent via consolidation. Expanded globally with a European launch in 2023. Recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **One-box logistics moat**: Proprietary logistics network consolidates samples from hundreds of brands into a single overnight delivery — a massive operational moat that competitors cannot easily replicate.
- **Network effects**: As more designers join, more manufacturers want to list; as more brands list, the platform becomes more valuable to designers.
- **Sustainability leadership**: 100% carbon neutral since 2020 and committed to net zero by 2040 — a strong differentiator in an industry increasingly focused on environmental impact.
- **Speed & convenience**: Overnight delivery of physical samples from hundreds of brands — unmatched in the design industry.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Launched in Europe in 2023 (Paris office), signaling international growth.
- **Product expansion**: Moving beyond sampling into brand discovery, specification, and human connection — becoming a full lifecycle platform for design professionals.
- **Sustainability**: Deepening commitment to net zero, sample reclamation, and sustainable specifying education.
- **AI & data**: Actively hiring Senior Data & AI Engineer and Applied AI Engineer, suggesting investment in AI-powered search, recommendations, and logistics optimization.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-friendly culture**: “Remote-friendly but maintain a global presence for in-person collaboration” — most roles are remote, with hubs in South Florida, Paris, and Mississippi.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Full medical/dental/vision (some plans at 100% coverage), flexible PTO, company-wide break last week of December, 12 weeks paid parental leave, 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%, FSA/HSA, monthly remote stipend, employee referral bonuses, LifeMart discounts.
- **People-first values**: Leadership principles include “We care,” “We team,” “We grow,” “We build,” “We ask,” “We run” — emphasizing ownership, curiosity, speed, and collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Small but mighty technical team (25 people, 11% of workforce) with focus on data, AI, and platform engineering. Current openings include Senior Data & AI Engineer and Applied AI Engineer.
- **Growth trajectory**: $325M+ funded, expanding globally, recognized by Forbes as Best Startup Employer — high growth with stability.
- **Mission-driven**: Working on sustainability (net zero by 2040) and transforming a legacy industry — appealing to purpose-driven talent.
- **Employer rating**: 3.6/5.0 on LinkedIn (81 reviews), with compensation rated 4.1/5.0, culture 3.2, work-life 3.0, career 3.3.

## Sources
1. [materialbank.com](https://www.materialbank.com/)
2. [careers.materialbank.com](https://careers.materialbank.com/careers)
3. [careers.materialbank.com/about](https://careers.materialbank.com/careers/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/materialbank](https://www.linkedin.com/company/materialbank)
5. [TechCrunch (2021) - $28M Series A](https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/17/material-bank-a-logistics-platform-for-sourcing-architectural-and-design-samples-raises-28m/)
6. [Business of Home (2022) - $175M round](https://businessofhome.com/articles/material-bank-raises-175-million)

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