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EVP, Communications

Panthalassa· Creative & Brand
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Portland, OR$230k - $350kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Executive-level communications leader responsible for building and leading Panthalassa’s communications function, developing brand narrative, media strategy, executive communications, social media, and community engagement to establish the company as a global, trusted energy platform.

Responsibilities

  • Brand & Narrative: Create and shepherd a clear brand and messaging strategy tied to mission, company values, and product roadmap.
  • Brand & Narrative: Partner with brand, strategy, product, environmental, legal/regulatory, and public affairs teams to define brand voice, positioning, and narrative.
  • Brand & Narrative: Develop proactive communications strategies that build awareness of our technology, mission, and team, defining messaging pillars across energy transformation, clean AI, renewable fuels, human welfare improvements associated with energy abundance, and environmental responsibility.
  • Brand & Narrative: Partner with environmental leads to showcase new scientific research and initiatives enabled by our platform.
  • Media & PR: Build relationships with traditional media and new media across energy, climate, technology, business, and culture.
  • Media & PR: Pitch stories and gain earned media coverage across traditional, digital, and broadcast.
  • Media & PR: Field inbound interest and build systems to manage hundreds of media relationships with good judgment while maintaining a high degree of trust.
  • Media & PR: Draft, edit, and oversee a variety of written content, including press releases, statements, op-eds, media advisories, fact sheets, talking points, and promotional materials.
  • Executive Communications: Be a strategic partner to the executive team on company messaging, announcements, funding narratives, and industry moments.
  • Executive Communications: Craft and deliver executive comms that reflect leadership voice and organizational values.
  • Executive Communications: Secure speaking opportunities and help develop op-eds, social posts, keynote materials, and other content.
  • Social Media Strategy & Content: Build a team to develop, own, and execute a social media content strategy aligned with company goals and audience growth targets.
  • Social Media Strategy & Content: Stay deeply engaged with current discourse to anticipate and strategically respond to emerging narratives, questions, and opportunities.
  • Social Media Strategy & Content: Produce content that educates, inspires, and drives engagement across technical and general audiences.
  • Community Engagement: Identify recurring themes, questions, and feedback from the community and build systems to address them.
  • Community Engagement: Create meaningful dialogue via email, comments, and forums and engage the right internal voices when a response is needed.
  • Community Engagement: Initiate, organize, and host in-person events.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of relevant experience in media relations, journalism, public relations, or strategic communications, including senior leadership roles.
  • Experience managing press, both reactively and proactively.
  • Ability to perform most aspects of the role as an individual contributor.
  • Evidence of calm, credible leadership of high-powered teams.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex ideas clear and compelling.
  • Strong relationships with relevant media and journalists.
  • Experience managing agencies and building in-house teams.
  • Strong judgment, presence, and ability to operate effectively in moments of ambiguity or rapid change.
  • Ability to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company's direction on a regular basis.

Skills

Required:Media relationsExecutive communicationsBrand strategy and storytellingCrisis/ambiguous environment navigation

Benefits

  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health insurance (company covers 100% of gold-level PPO plan for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
  • Dental insurance (100% for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
  • Vision insurance (100% for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
  • Disability insurance (100% for long-term financial support if disabled)
  • 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA contributions allowed
Last updated Sep 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Panthalassa

Go where the energy is

We're harnessing renewable energy in the open ocean and delivering it around the world. Engineered in Portland, Oregon.

Planetary-scale energyclean energy platformrenewable energyocean energypilot deploymentpublic-benefit corporation
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