Viant, Inc. is hiring: Marketing Associate in Minneapolis
Viant, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, US, 55400
At Viant, we partner and innovate to deliver the highest quality, life-enhancing medical devices - Join us to build a new business unit with strong foundations, collaborate with Leading OEMs, and improve patient lives through better service and cost-effective solutions.
Viant is seeking an experienced Marketing Associate to lead marketing initiatives for our Plastics, Metals, and Assembly portfolios-core pillars of our vertically integrated design and manufacturing platform. This role serves as the business-unit marketing lead, responsible for defining growth strategies, shaping market positioning, and enabling commercial success.
The ideal candidate combines technical aptitude and strong marketing acumen, and commercial insight to drive awareness, preference, and pipeline growth in key MedTech markets. The Marketing Associate will ensure that all portfolio-level strategies align with and ladder into Viant's broader enterprise strategy, reinforcing our position as one of the industry's most trusted design and manufacturing partner.
We're looking for a marketing professional who understands the language of manufacturing and engineering-someone who can bridge technical expertise with creative strategy in a regulated industry. If you have a marketing background and hands-on experience in manufacturing or engineering, we want to hear from you!
Job Type: Remote position based in the Minneapolis, MN area
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Marketing
- Develop technical content and marketing collateral that articulate Viant's expertise, innovation, and engineering know-how in plastics, metals, and assembly.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to create case studies, capability sheets, technical white papers, and proof points
- Work closely with engineering, project management, D&D teams to capture innovation stories, capacity updates, and new capabilities
- Develop and maintain sales enablement tools-value proposition decks, customer presentations, technical overviews, and proof-point collateral-that strengthen commercial storytelling.
- Train and equip commercial teams with the technical content, success stories, and tools to position Viant's differentiated capabilities across the buyer journey.
- Develop and own integrated marketing strategies for the Plastics, Metals, and Assembly portfolios-anchored in customer needs, competitive differentiation, and market opportunity.
- Define and continuously refine value propositions, target segments, and growth priorities in partnership with Business Unit Leaders
- Translate portfolio strategies into actionable annual marketing plans with measurable objectives, KPIs, and ROI targets.
- Lead market and competitive analysis to identify emerging trends, customer pain points, and whitespace opportunities within medtech contract manufacturing.
- Support technology road mapping, new capability launches, and M&A activities
- Partner with Digital and Content teams to design and launch multi-channel campaigns (web, social, email, trade shows) that drive awareness and lead generation.
Education/Certification
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations, marketing or related concentration
- MBA with Marketing concentration (Preferred)
- 5+ years of B2B marketing experience in contract manufacturing, MedTech, or industrial sectors, ideally within a CDMO environment.
- At least 1-2 years of experience in engineering, operations, or project management in a manufacturing organization. (Regulated Industry preferred)
- Strong understanding of manufacturing technologies (plastics molding, precision metals, assembly, automation, etc.) and their applications in medical devices.
- Strong strategic thinker with the ability to develop marketing strategies to drive enterprise growth objectives
- Demonstrated experience in technical marketing - communicating differentiation to technical buyers and decision-makers.
- Ability to translate complex concepts into impactful customer facing content
- Strong Power Point skills
- Experience with CRM and marketing systems (Salesforce, HubSpot, Power BI)
- Strong influence and communication skills to work across matrixed teams and functions
- Agile and proactive; comfortable navigating fast-paced environments and evolving priorities.
- Ownership and accountability to drive deliverables to completion with excellence.
- Ability to travel frequently within the U.S. (Up to 25%)
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits-effective date of hire!
- Company-paid life insurance and disability benefits
- Generous Paid time off and 10 paid Holidays
- 401k Plan with Company Match
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Voluntary Universal Life and Long-Term Care
- Voluntary Legal Plan
- Pet Insurance
- Home Ownership Program
Viant is a global medical device design and manufacturing services provider that partners and innovates with customers to provide the highest quality, life enhancing medical devices. We do this through our depth and breadth of capabilities, end-to-end integration, technical expertise, and relentless focus on our customers and on operational excellence. With nearly 6,000 associates across 24 locations worldwide, we offer a unique combination of small-company service and attention with big-company resources. For more information, visit viantmedical.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
Viant provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Viant complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.