Communications Lead

Role Overview

We're hiring a Communications Lead to define how Orbital Industries is understood in the market - and to build the communications motion that makes that understanding stick.

This is a category-creation brief. You'll articulate what the AI Industrial is, why CurieOS matters, and how Orbital Industries' full-lifecycle approach (materials, engineering, hardware) represents something genuinely new. You'll translate deep technical work - across AI, materials science, and hardware engineering - into clear, distinctive, high-quality communication that builds authority with investors, technical buyers, talent, and the broader market.

Your job is to set the strategic direction: brand voice, messaging frameworks, content strategy, and open doors for media.

What We're Looking For

• 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

Why Join Orbital Industries?

• 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

Orbital is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.