Bridge company strategy and operational execution, unlock the next phase of growth.
+ +## Details of the role + +- **Location**: Remote (preference for UTC-6 to UTC+5). +- **Type of work**: Full-time (contractor or employee [depending on circumstances](https://mui-org.notion.site/Hiring-FAQ-64763b756ae44c37b47b081f98915501#494af1f358794028beb4b7697b5d3102)). +- **Level**: [IC5 Staff and above](https://mui-org.notion.site/Leveling-at-MUI-5c30f9bfe65149d697f346447cef9db1). +- We're a **remote** company, operating mostly asynchronously. + +## The company + +MUI's story began in 2014 with Material UI, the most successful React implementation of Google's Material Design. +This open-source project has paved the way for the fully-fledged startup known as MUI (founded in 2019), which now boasts an ever-expanding ecosystem of React UI products. +We're a company of 40 people as of 2026, and we're growing steadily. + +## The products + +MUI is best known for our flagship product, Material UI—but this is just one of the UI libraries we maintain. +Material UI is complemented by advanced components through MUI X (Data Grid, Charts, Date and Time Pickers, Tree View) for more complex user interactions and data visualization needs. +Base UI is our headless component library. +We also host Design Kits and pre-built Templates. + +## The culture + +MUI is a fully remote company with a team that spans the globe. +The majority of our work is asynchronous, and we rely on written communication to collaborate. +We're radically transparent: a lot of our work happens in public. +Each contributor has the freedom to decide how and when they work, and that work is primarily self-directed: it's your responsibility to define and complete your own tasks in a timely manner. + +For additional details about the culture, you can check our [careers](https://mui.com/careers/) and [about](https://mui.com/about/) pages and also our [public Handbook](https://mui-org.notion.site). + +## Why we're hiring + +As MUI scales past 40 people, our biggest bottleneck is increasingly execution in business operations. +Without a dedicated business operations leader, executive bandwidth gets tied up in day-to-day tasks rather than high-leverage decisions, critical cross-functional projects stall between departments, etc. + +We are hiring a Director of Business Operations to offload executive operations from the CEO and build the machinery required for our products to reach their full potential. +In this role, you will take on critical initiatives, ensure that cross-functional friction is resolved, and enforce a high bar of execution across the entire business. + +Overall, both our open-source community and our premium products are growing fast. +We need talented people to keep up with the demands of our exigent community! + +### Why this is interesting + +You will operate at the intersection of business, revenue, system design (for example, AI), strategy, and organization design. +You won't manage processes—you will lead a team that builds scalable foundations, untangles complex cross-functional friction (across Finance, Marketing, Product, Sales, People, Finance, and Engineering), and incubates new capabilities (like RevOps or internal tooling migrations) from 0 to 1. + +If you love first-principles problem-solving, data, obsessing over operational details, and building living systems that save organization-wide time at scale, this role offers large autonomy and high strategic leverage. +We care deeply about precision, excellence, and deep focus on the inputs (not the outputs): "How you do anything is how you do everything." + +Our products empower React developers to build awesome applications faster – we see millions of developers on MUI's docs every year, one million a month. + +## The role + +### Key responsibilities + +Depending on the day, you'll: + +- **Track performance & resolve bottlenecks:** Monitor company KPIs, detect operational risks early, and deploy targeted interventions to solve root causes across departments. +- **Lead operational scaling & systems design:** Build, optimize, and automate scalable workflows, OKR cadences, and operating systems. + Manage the Operations Engineer and temporarily own critical functions like interim RevOps. +- **Lead people:** Manage a team of operational contributors (including an operations engineer, people partner, operations manager), unblocking their daily work, and setting clear execution standards. +- **Drive special projects (0-to-1):** Lead high-priority strategic experiments, expansions, or internal turnarounds from inception through execution to smooth handoff. +- **Break down cross-functional silos:** Facilitate seamless collaboration across Product, Sales, Engineering, and Finance to eliminate friction and increase decision-making velocity. +- **Act as an executive proxy & advisor:** Partner directly with the CEO and leadership team to offload executive initiatives, align company scorecards, and run core operating forums. + +Overall, expect the role to be 60% execution, 40% team management. + +## Who we're looking for + +### Required + +- **High-agency & Cross-functional judgment:** Self-directed problem solver who thrives in ambiguity and can prioritize among many opportunities. See [Manager of one](https://mui-org.notion.site/Managers-of-one-00432bb0f6cf4667ae4ce9dd4cca23d3). +- **High conscientiousness & Detail rigor:** Strong commitment to eventually reach no-defect execution; double-checks everything, maintains clean documentation, focus on friction-free user experiences. +- **Executive presence & business acumen:** Sound financial judgment, strong understanding of unit economics/gross margins, and the communication skills required to align senior leaders without direct line authority. +- **First-principles analytical rigor:** Proven track record of breaking down complex, ambiguous operational problems into root causes rather than treating superficial symptoms. +- **Hands-on data literacy & systems design:** Strong experience designing metrics, operating cadences (OKRs, WBRs/QBRs), and working alongside data/analytics engineers or tool stacks to establish single sources of truth. +- **Strategic execution & ownership:** Demonstrated success leading cross-functional strategic projects from scratch to a stable handoff, or taking on interim functional lead roles. +- **Relentless drive for excellence**: Follow the Boy Scout philosophy. You naturally leave every document, system, or workflow in better shape than you found it, proactively paying down operational debt. + +### Nice to have (but not required) + +- Former founder, Chief of Staff, or operations lead experience at a scaling startup (40–100 employees). +- Hands-on experience with modern analytics stacks (for example, SQL, Python). +- Prior experience in a developer tools or open-core business. + +## Benefits and compensation + +We offer competitive compensation commensurate with your experience level and location and are prepared to pay top market rates for someone who can clearly exceed the role's expectations. +You can find the other perks and benefits on the [careers](https://mui.com/careers/#perks-and-benefits) page. + +## How to apply + +[Apply now for this position 📮](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/MUI/1e96c9ba-ca98-41da-93ea-77459c509699/application?utm_source=ZNRrPGBkqO) + +Don't meet every requirement? +Apply anyway! +Research shows that certain folks are less likely to apply for a role than others [unless they meet 100%](https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless-theyre-100-qualified) of the outlined qualifications. +If this role excites you, we want to hear from you. +We'd love for you to share the unique skills, passion, and experience you could bring to MUI. + + diff --git a/docs/pages/careers/operations-engineer.js b/docs/pages/careers/operations-engineer.js new file mode 100644 index 00000000000000..8c12d75a72db2f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/pages/careers/operations-engineer.js @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +import TopLayoutCareers from 'docs/src/modules/components/TopLayoutCareers'; +import * as pageProps from 'docs/pages/careers/operations-engineer.md?muiMarkdown'; + +export default function Page() { + returnHelp us reach operational excellence using engineering skills.
+ +## Details of the role + +- **Location**: Remote (preference for UTC-6 to UTC+5). +- **Type of work**: Full-time (contractor or employee [depending on circumstances](https://mui-org.notion.site/Hiring-FAQ-64763b756ae44c37b47b081f98915501#494af1f358794028beb4b7697b5d3102)). +- **Level**: [IC4 Senior and above](https://mui-org.notion.site/Leveling-at-MUI-5c30f9bfe65149d697f346447cef9db1). +- We're a **remote** company, operating mostly asynchronously. + +## The company + +MUI's story began in 2014 with Material UI, the most successful React implementation of Google's Material Design. +This open-source project has paved the way for the fully-fledged startup known as MUI (founded in 2019), which now boasts an ever-expanding ecosystem of React UI products. +We're a company of 40 people as of 2026, and we're growing steadily. + +## The products + +MUI is best known for our flagship product, Material UI—but this is just one of the UI libraries we maintain. +Material UI is complemented by advanced components through MUI X (Data Grid, Charts, Date and Time Pickers, Tree View) for more complex user interactions and data visualization needs. +Base UI is our headless component library. +We also host Design Kits and pre-built Templates. + +## The culture + +MUI is a fully remote company with a team that spans the globe. +The majority of our work is asynchronous, and we rely on written communication to collaborate. +We're radically transparent: a lot of our work happens in public. +Each contributor has the freedom to decide how and when they work, and that work is primarily self-directed: it's your responsibility to define and complete your own tasks in a timely manner. + +For additional details about the culture, you can check our [careers](https://mui.com/careers/) and [about](https://mui.com/about/) pages and also our [public Handbook](https://mui-org.notion.site). + +## Why we're hiring + +MUI is scaling, but traditional business operations have become a strong bottleneck to our growth. +The leadership team is spending too much time on manual, repetitive tasks, building spreadsheets, debugging ETL regressions, wiring SaaS tools together, firefighting operational issues, etc. + +Rather than hiring a conventional IT team, we treat internal company operations as an engineering problem. +We believe that applying systems thinking, modern software engineering, and AI automation directly to business operations will create immense leverage. + +We are opening this role to act as a **hands-on force multiplier** across the organization—building zero-defect data models, automated internal tools, and AI-driven workflows across Finance, GTM (RevOps, Sales, Marketing), People, and Product. + +Overall, both our open-source community and our premium products are growing fast. +We need talented people to keep up with the demands of our exigent community! + +### Why this is interesting + +- **Function as a modern hands-on CIO / Head of business systems:** Instead of managing large corporate budgets or enterprise governance, you will directly apply software engineering (TypeScript, SQL, AI frameworks) to real-world business systems. +- **Massive organizational leverage:** You will step into cross-functional gaps to eliminate operational bottlenecks, saving hundreds of hours of leadership time and accelerating company velocity. +- **High-agency autonomy:** Operating without a rigid backlog, you will systematically map MUI's cross-functional workflows using Lean principles, identify high-leverage opportunities, and build end-to-end technical solutions. +- **AI-first execution:** You will be at the forefront of implementing AI agents, LLM tool integrations, and low-code orchestration engines to automate routine business tasks across every department. + +Our products empower React developers to build awesome applications faster – we see millions of developers on MUI's docs every year, one million a month. + +## The role + +### Key responsibilities + +Depending on the day, you'll: + +- **Internal systems architecture & management (Modern IT/CIO):** Own, maintain, and connect the company's internal software stack—from CRM, billing, and Accounting platforms to internal databases and analytics dashboards. +- **AI & workflow automation engine:** Identify, prototype, and build custom scripts (SQL, JavaScript), AI agents, low-code integrations (for example, Zapier, Make), etc. to eliminate manual tasks across People, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations. +- **GTM & RevOps technical execution:** Partner with Sales and Marketing to streamline lead pipelines, customer data enrichment, conversion funnels, and customer-facing website updates. +- **Data engineering & Operational analytics:** Build and maintain data pipelines, operational dashboards, and data models to power strategic decision-making (for example, pricing model LTV analysis, product adoption telemetry, sales PO volumes, npm/GitHub ecosystem metrics, or OKRs progress). +- **Process engineering & Systems optimization:** Apply the five core Lean principles and systems analysis to map company workflows, identify operational or financial bottlenecks, and build technological solutions to resolve them. +- **Technical force multiplier for Leadership:** Serve as a direct execution arm for executive leadership—stepping in to resolve unowned, cross-cutting technical issues across products, vendor platforms, or internal operations. + +## Who we're looking for + +### Required + +- **High-agency & Cross-functional judgment:** Self-directed problem solver who thrives in ambiguity and can prioritize among many opportunities. See [Manager of one](https://mui-org.notion.site/Managers-of-one-00432bb0f6cf4667ae4ce9dd4cca23d3). +- **High conscientiousness & Detail rigor:** Strong commitment to eventually reach no-defect execution; double-checks everything, maintains clean documentation, focuses on friction-free user experiences. +- **Modern business Tech Stack management (CIO/RevOps):** Technical mastery over core SaaS ecosystems (Salesforce/HubSpot, Stripe, NetSuite/Xero, Segment, GitHub/npm APIs). +- **Systems & Process engineering (Lean/Systems thinking):** Ability to map cross-functional workflows, spot operational bottlenecks, and apply Lean principles to eliminate non-value-added steps. +- **Full-Stack engineering:** Proficiency in TypeScript and SQL; can quickly build internal tools, scripts, and API integrations. +- **Data engineering & Analytics architecture:** Track record of designing reliable data pipelines, maintaining zero-defect data models, and delivering actionable BI dashboards (Revenue, LTV, PLG telemetry). + For example, ensures data & financial models match to the cent. +- **Workflow Automation & AI agents:** Hands-on experience with modern AI workflows (LLM APIs, agentic frameworks, function calling) alongside low-code orchestration engines (for example, Pipedream, Make, Zapier, n8n). +- **4+ years of professional software engineering experience**, with at least 2+ years spent building internal tools, data pipelines, or cross-functional business automation. + +### Nice to have (but not required) + +- Prior experience as an early-stage startup founder, Technical Operations Lead, GTM Engineer, Finance Ops Engineer, or Principal Engineer with cross-functional scope. +- Experience with React, Next.js, and MUI's tool ecosystem. +- Deep familiarity with open-source ecosystems, developer tools, or PLG (Product-Led Growth) telemetry metrics. +- Background in applying Lean principles within knowledge work or software development contexts. + +## Benefits and compensation + +We offer competitive compensation commensurate with your experience level and location and are prepared to pay top market rates for someone who can clearly exceed the role's expectations. +You can find the other perks and benefits on the [careers](https://mui.com/careers/#perks-and-benefits) page. + +## How to apply + +[Apply now for this position 📮](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/MUI/4bfd5851-6252-489d-a7b1-06a704c285a7/application?utm_source=ZNRrPGBkqO) + +Don't meet every requirement? +Apply anyway! +Research shows that certain folks are less likely to apply for a role than others [unless they meet 100%](https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless-theyre-100-qualified) of the outlined qualifications. +If this role excites you, we want to hear from you. +We'd love for you to share the unique skills, passion, and experience you could bring to MUI. diff --git a/docs/pages/careers/staff-engineer-pigment-css.md b/docs/pages/careers/staff-engineer-pigment-css.md index 42e730b1036d6b..f2464f62244704 100644 --- a/docs/pages/careers/staff-engineer-pigment-css.md +++ b/docs/pages/careers/staff-engineer-pigment-css.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ - **Location**: Remote (preference for UTC-6 to UTC+5). - **Type of work**: Full-time (contractor or employee [depending on circumstances](https://mui-org.notion.site/Hiring-FAQ-64763b756ae44c37b47b081f98915501#494af1f358794028beb4b7697b5d3102)). -- **Level**: [IC5 or above](https://mui-org.notion.site/Engineering-levels-25b2fba9dd1f4b43a1b28f47f0170f23). +- **Level**: [IC5 Staff and above](https://mui-org.notion.site/Engineering-levels-25b2fba9dd1f4b43a1b28f47f0170f23). - We're a **remote** company, operating mostly asynchronously. ## The company diff --git a/docs/pages/careers/staff-ui-engineer-base-ui.md b/docs/pages/careers/staff-ui-engineer-base-ui.md index 545b457132e7a4..bf3665d26105fb 100644 --- a/docs/pages/careers/staff-ui-engineer-base-ui.md +++ b/docs/pages/careers/staff-ui-engineer-base-ui.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ - **Location**: Remote (preference for UTC-6 to UTC+5). - **Type of work**: Full-time (contractor or employee [depending on circumstances](https://mui-org.notion.site/Hiring-FAQ-64763b756ae44c37b47b081f98915501#494af1f358794028beb4b7697b5d3102)). -- **Level**: [IC5 or above](https://mui-org.notion.site/Leveling-at-MUI-5c30f9bfe65149d697f346447cef9db1). +- **Level**: [IC5 Staff and above](https://mui-org.notion.site/Leveling-at-MUI-5c30f9bfe65149d697f346447cef9db1). - We're a **remote** company, operating mostly asynchronously. ## The company