# Sr. Material Research at Material Bank

- Company: Material Bank
- What the company does: Search and order free material samples from Material Bank. Register as a professional to search across the best design and architectural product brands! Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.materialbank.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: South Florida or Boston
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/materialbank/jobs/7990241003?gh_jid=7990241003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/material-bank-sr-material-research/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Catalog