orbitalindustries - Communications Lead
Requirements
• Significant leadership experience in communications, content, editorial or brand storytelling — ideally in a technical, deep-tech or science-adjacent environment. Experience with investor communications or fundraising narratives is a strong plus • An excellent writer with strong editorial taste and clear judgement; your portfolio should demonstrate range across long-form, short-form and messaging work • Deep curiosity about AI, science, engineering or technical products — you follow these spaces because you're genuinely interested, not because it's your job • The ability to make technical ideas accessible without losing credibility or nuance • Comfortable owning both strategy and execution — you can set the direction, produce the work, and build the systems that maintain quality without you touching every piece • Experience building or significantly expanding a communications function — you should find creating something from scratch exciting, not uncomfortable • High standards for writing, messaging, and brand consistency — you notice when things drift and you fix them before they compound • Strong collaborative instincts — you'll work closely with technical founders, engineers, a GTM Lead, a design function. You need to influence without owning every channel • Experience briefing and managing creative work: design, video, freelance writers, press agencies • Science degree or background is preferred
Responsibilities
• Communications Strategy and Brand Voice • Define and own Orbital Industries' external communications strategy — how we are positioned, perceived, and understood in the market • Build and enforce consistency in brand voice across all external channels: website, social, events, collateral, press • Set the messaging framework for CurieOS and its three pillars (Materials, Deployment, Hardware), ensuring our full-lifecycle positioning is sharp and differentiated • Write strong creative and messaging briefs for design, video, and campaign work — giving the GTM team clear strategic direction to execute against • Ensure a clean separation between Orbital Industries (brand authority, category definition) and Orbital IT (commercial, customer-facing) in how we communicate externally • Stakeholder messaging • Work closely with the CFO and founders to ensure investor messaging reflects Orbital Industries' positioning as the AI Industrial category leader, not just a product company • Translate technical milestones (CurieOS releases, customer deployments, materials breakthroughs) into compelling narratives • Content and copy • Own long-form writing, thought leadership, website messaging, investor content, and campaign assets - from strategy through to production • Produce content that makes Orbital Industries' work in AI, materials science and hardware engineering accessible without losing credibility or nuance — you know the difference between simplifying and dumbing down • Develop and maintain CurieOS content across its three pillars: materials discovery, deployment engineering, and hardware product development • Use LLMs and modern tools to work efficiently while maintaining high editorial standards • Own organic social strategy: voice, editorial calendar, content direction and output quality • Build Orbital Industries' social presence into a distinctive point of view, not just a broadcast channel — the GTM team handles day-to-day posting and scheduling • Track developments across AI infrastructure and adjacent industries to keep content timely and credible • Partner with the GTM Lead to align organic and paid social messaging • Website messaging • Own website copy and landing-page messaging, ensuring it is sharp, current and aligned to business priorities • Work closely with the GTM team on copy for campaign landing pages — you own the message, they own the conversion optimisation and testing cycle • Press and Media • Develop Orbital Industries' press function - strengthening media relationships, identifying opportunities, and positioning the company for coverage that reinforces our authority in the AI Industrial category • Amplify founder positioning for external audiences, interviews, speaking engagements and media appearances • Manage freelance press support and scale the function as the company grows
Benefits
• Competitive salary and equity package - the ability to own part of Orbital Industries as we grow • Flexible and generous paid time off • Excellent health, dental and vision insurance plan • Regular company offsites to the USA and beyond • The chance to define the narrative for a new category — the AI Industrial — at a company where communications is a strategic function, not a support one
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