Technology Group Lead

Avient • Avon Lake, OH

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About The Position

The Technology Group Lead will oversee and mentor a team of early career researchers focused on advanced materials innovation, driving high-impact strategic technology development. This role requires strong technical acumen, leadership skills, and the ability to translate emerging science into actionable research directions aligned with corporate priorities. The Technology Group Lead will foster collaboration across internal and external stakeholders, ensuring projects progress through defined stage-gate processes. Success in this position will be measured by the team’s ability to deliver high-impact insights and prototypes that shape the company’s future technology portfolio.
Our purpose at Avient Corporation is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world.

Innovation goes far beyond materials science; it’s powered by the passion, creativity, and diverse expertise of 9,000 professionals worldwide. Whether you’re a finance wizard, a tech enthusiast, an operational powerhouse, an HR changemaker, or a trailblazer in materials development, you’ll find your place at Avient.

Join our global team and help shape the future with sustainable solutions that transform possibilities into realities. Your unique perspective could be the key to our next breakthrough!

We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self, a leader of others, or a leader of the business.

By playing to win, acting customer centric, driving innovation and profitable growth, collaborating seamlessly across Avient, and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avient’s strategic goals, to meet our customer needs, and to accomplish your career goals.

At Avient, we believe a wide variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring, promotion, development, compensation or advancement are based solely on a person’s qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.

Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, color, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran’s status, or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal, state and local law. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application, please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing, [email protected].

Requirements

• strong technical acumen
• leadership skills
• ability to translate emerging science into actionable research directions aligned with corporate priorities

Responsibilities

• Champion a culture of safety, respect, and integrity, modeling these behaviors daily and ensuring your team consistently upholds them.
• Inspire and mentor a team of researchers by providing hands‑on technical guidance that nurtures curiosity, builds capability, and accelerates professional growth.
• Contribute to strategic project planning and execution, guiding research initiatives through a structured stage‑gate innovation process to deliver impactful outcomes.
• Communicate project milestones, insights, and challenges effectively to senior leadership, transforming complex scientific advancements into clear, actionable updates.
• Identify emerging technology trends, recognizing opportunities that can shape the future of advanced materials and strengthen Avient’s technology pipeline.
• Cultivate an environment where innovation thrives by encouraging collaboration, experimentation, knowledge‑sharing, and continuous improvement within the team and across the organization.
• Contribute flexibly and proactively to the broader goals of the technology organization through additional responsibilities that support evolving business needs.
• Ensure documentation of inventive work by reviewing and submitting timely invention records and identifying adjacent white‑space opportunities to strengthen the Intellectual property portfolio.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees