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Communications Lead

Orbital· Commercial & Marketing
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Hybrid (London, UK)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead the external communications strategy and brand storytelling for Orbital Industries, articulating the AI Industrial category, CurieOS framework, and the company’s full-lifecycle approach to investors, technical buyers, talent, and the market.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own external communications strategy and market positioning
  • Enforce brand voice consistency across channels (website, social, events, collateral, press)
  • Set messaging framework for CurieOS and its pillars (Materials, Deployment, Hardware)
  • Create strong creative and messaging briefs for design, video, and campaigns
  • Maintain separation between Orbital Industries and Orbital IT in external communications
  • Collaborate with CFO and founders on investor messaging
  • Translate technical milestones into compelling narratives
  • Own long-form writing, thought leadership, website messaging, investor content, and campaigns
  • Develop CurieOS content across materials discovery, deployment engineering, and hardware product development
  • Utilize LLMs and modern tools while upholding editorial standards
  • Own organic social strategy, editorial calendar, and content direction
  • Build a distinctive social presence and collaborate with GTM on messaging
  • Ensure website copy and landing pages are current and aligned to priorities
  • Develop and manage press function, media relationships, and founder positioning
  • Manage freelance press support and scale communications as the company grows

Qualifications

  • Significant leadership experience in communications, content, editorial, or brand storytelling (ideally in technical, deep-tech, or science-adjacent environments)
  • Experience with investor communications or fundraising narratives is a strong plus
  • Excellent writing with strong editorial taste and portfolio spanning long-form, short-form, and messaging
  • Curiosity about AI, science, engineering, or technical products
  • Ability to simplify technical ideas without losing credibility
  • Comfortable owning strategy and execution, with systems to maintain quality without micromanagement
  • Experience building or expanding a communications function
  • High standards for writing, messaging, and brand consistency
  • Strong collaboration and influencing skills with founders, engineers, GTM, design teams
  • Experience briefing and managing creative work (design, video, freelance writers, press agencies)
  • Science degree or background preferred

Skills

Required:External communications strategyBrand voice and messagingContent strategy and writingMedia relations
Nice to have:Investor communications

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Flexible and generous paid time off
  • Excellent health, dental and vision insurance
  • Regular company offsites to the USA and beyond
  • Opportunity to define the narrative for a new category (AI Industrial) as a strategic function
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Orbital

Advanced Materials for Next-Gen Data Centers

Orbital builds next-gen data center products powered by AI-discovered advanced materials—solving industry’s hardest challenges with performance breakthroughs.

Data CentersAdvanced MaterialsAI
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