About us: 

We turn customer challenges into growth opportunities.   

Material is a global strategy partner to the world’s most recognizable brands and innovative companies. Our people around the globe thrive by helping organizations design and deliver rewarding customer experiences.  

We use deep human insights, design innovation and data to create experiences powered by modern technology. Our approaches speed up engagement and growth for the companies we work with and transform relationships between businesses and the people they serve.  

About the Sr. Director, Web and Content Operations

The Senior Director of Web and Content Operations leads a team of scrum masters, architects, developers, quality assurance, and content migrators to enhance the client's digital ecosystem built in Drupal. This role is an extension of the client’s marketing team and supporting the evolving needs of the whole organization.

Core Responsibilities:

Here’s what you’ll be doing day to day…

Technical Solution Strategy: Collaborate with the client team to define the digital roadmap and troubleshoot emerging issues. Provide innovative ideas to create a functional and attractive digital environment. Contribute to the client's digital transformation strategies based on industry best practices.

Cross Functional Team Leadership: You will be closely engaged with client partners, strategists, and delivery engagement leaders to shape solutions towards clients explicit and latent needs. You will assess and recommend experience platform-oriented solutions, engineering solutions, and closely collaborate with a global distributed delivery team to convert client visions to reality.

Architecture: Construct and refine technical architecture to solve complex business problems through in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

Communicate: Articulate the transition from current to future state in consideration of the future needs of the business, security policies and requirements. Break down complex business and technical strategies and roadmaps into consumable requirements for teams to execute against.

About You:

Client-Facing, often sitting face to face with customers to understand their needs and shape technical solutions to address them.

A Mentor, you lead by example and challenge others to push their boundaries.

A Self-Starter, you’re an expert in your field but even if you don’t have experience, you are anxious to jump in, learn and help.

Collaborative, you enjoy working with several cross functional teams on a daily basis.

An effective communicator, you have the charisma to command attention, strategize and problem-solve on your feet when needed with internal and external team members. 

Hands on, you’re willing to jump in and your hands dirty.

Your Experience & Intangible Traits:

The ideal candidate for the Senior Director Web and Content Operations position will possess the following competencies:

10+ years of aggregate experience in digital technologies, including architecting and developing large-scale web applications

10+ years of experience in client-facing technology consulting roles

5+ years of hands-on experience implementing and maintaining a complex Drupal (or similar) web CMS platform

Ability to methodically estimate technology execution scope of work in terms of budget and resources

Knowledge of current digital marketing trends and best practices on topics such as personalization, cross channel marketing, mobile, data driven optimization of experiences

Ability to define conceptual technology solution and articulate the value of technology to drive creative marketing platforms and present technology solutions to both technical and non-technical clients

Ability to translate client goals into achievable technical specifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, management information systems, mathematics or equivalent

Experience with any of the following would be relevant to the role and considered a plus:

Experience developing modern microservice applications using cloud-native abilities of AWS

Hands on experience with DevOps and release management process

Hands-on experience implementing complex customer journeys, personalization, and targeted customer offerings through use of digital experience platforms.

Why work for Material? 

In addition to fulfilling, high-impact work, company culture and benefits are integral to determining if a job is a right fit for you. Here’s a bit about who we are and highlights around what we offer. 

Who we are & what we care about:

Material is a global company and we work with best-of-class brands worldwide.  We also create and launch new brands and products, putting innovation and value creation at the center of our practice. Our clients are in the top of their class, across industry sectors from technology to retail, transportation, finance and healthcare. 

Material employees join a peer group of exceptionally talented colleagues across the company, the country, and even the world. We develop capabilities, craft and leading-edge market offerings across seven global practices including strategy and insights, design, data & analytics, technology and tracking. Our engagement management team makes it all hum for clients.  

We prize inclusion and interconnectedness. We amplify our impact through the people, perspectives, and expertise we engage in our work. Our commitment to deep human understanding combined with a science & systems approach uniquely equips us to bring a rich frame of reference to our work. 

A community focused on learning and making an impact. Material is an outcomes focused company. We create experiences that matter, create new value and make a difference in people's lives.  
 

What we offer: 

In addition to Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability and FSA, Material offers: 

A work environment that works best for you. Whether that’s fully remote, in one of our offices, or hybrid. 

Flexible & synchronous time off. We trust our colleagues to take responsibility for and manage their workloads. That’s why we offer Flexible Time Off along with synchronous companywide closures and 11 company holidays.

12 weeks of paid parental leave. Every parent deserves to spend the first few months of their new child’s life with them. 

Help planning for your future. We offer 401K match, as well as periodic financial wellness and planning sessions throughout the year.  

Pay Range: $111,600.00 - 175,000.00

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Material. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself. 

Equal Employment Opportunity          

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.

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