Marketing & Communications Director

Accountabilities:

• Develop and execute the overall marketing and communications strategy, including priorities, budgets, objectives, and measurable performance indicators.

• Refine company positioning, messaging, and brand identity, ensuring consistency across marketing channels and external communications.

• Lead content planning and production for social media, leadership profiles, website content, and other relevant channels.

• Manage PR and media relations, including journalist relationships, press releases, interviews, announcements, and media opportunities.

• Plan and coordinate participation in exhibitions and industry events, covering event strategy, stand design, suppliers, marketing materials, and promotion.

• Develop joint marketing initiatives with strategic partners, including campaigns, announcements, events, and co-branded content.

• Brief, coordinate, and manage external contractors and agencies producing photography, video, graphics, merchandise, and other marketing assets.

• Coordinate website updates and ensure digital content remains current, consistent, and aligned with the overall brand strategy.

• Collaborate with Business Development and Product teams to create product briefs, case studies, presentations, and other customer-facing materials.

• Track campaign performance, media coverage, audience growth, and qualified inbound interest to evaluate impact and optimize marketing investment.

• Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously while maintaining clear priorities and execution standards.

• Build the foundations for a scalable marketing function and potentially develop an in-house team as the organization grows.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in marketing and communications, including responsibility for both strategy and hands-on execution.

• Demonstrated experience marketing complex technical products or solutions to sophisticated audiences.

• Proven ability to translate marketing strategy into practical campaigns, programs, and measurable business outcomes.

• Track record of developing creative campaigns that generated significant audience engagement, media coverage, or international visibility.

• Hands-on experience across social media, content marketing, public relations, advertising, and industry events.

• Strong leadership, project management, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Established relationships with journalists and media contacts across technology, business, or relevant industry publications.

• Excellent writing, editing, storytelling, and verbal communication skills.

• Fluent professional English, both written and spoken.

• Highly self-directed, organized, and comfortable managing competing priorities in a fast-paced startup environment.

• Experience in defense, aerospace, or dual-use technology is advantageous.

• Experience working within an early-stage or rapidly scaling technology company is a plus.

• International product launch, industry exhibition, or strategic partner campaign experience is beneficial.

• Professional proficiency in an additional European language is a plus.

• Availability for occasional travel within Europe.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation for a part-time leadership position, with the potential to transition toward full-time.

• Company equity.

• Remote work from anywhere in Europe.

• Hybrid working options by agreement.

• Flexible working hours with a strong focus on priorities, ownership, and measurable results.

• Direct collaboration with founders and significant ownership of marketing and communications strategy.

• Opportunity to shape the development of a growing marketing function and potentially build an in-house team.

• Exposure to complex technical products and international markets.

• Opportunity to contribute to technology focused on multi-domain intelligence, security, and protection of lives.

• Fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with substantial autonomy and responsibility.