Communications Lead

<p style="min-height:1.5em">Orbital Industries is an AI Industrial company, with frontier AI embedded at every step in the production of critical physical products - from creating advanced materials to engineering and manufacturing.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Every Orbital Industries product is developed using CurieOS, our AI operating system, uniting AI-automated hardware engineering with AI-designed material science to achieve breakthrough real-world performance. We also offer CurieOS to our customers and partners, extending the same platform and workflows that power Orbital Industries to their own teams and products.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We have an ambitious mission and need excellent people in all our teams - AI research, operations, advanced materials, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and manufacturing.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Working at Orbital Industries means working in vertically integrated teams across the full stack, from molecules to manufacturing. We're looking for people who have a love of physical technology, curiosity in AI and a desire to learn.</p><h2><strong>Role Overview</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Your job is to set the strategic direction: brand voice, messaging frameworks, content strategy, and open doors for media.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Communications Strategy and Brand Voice</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define and own Orbital Industries' external communications strategy — how we are positioned, perceived, and understood in the market</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and enforce consistency in brand voice across all external channels: website, social, events, collateral, press</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Set the messaging framework for CurieOS and its three pillars (Materials, Deployment, Hardware), ensuring our full-lifecycle positioning is sharp and differentiated</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write strong creative and messaging briefs for design, video, and campaign work — giving the GTM team clear strategic direction to execute against</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ensure a clean separation between Orbital Industries (brand authority, category definition) and Orbital IT (commercial, customer-facing) in how we communicate externally</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Stakeholder messaging</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work closely with the CFO and founders to ensure investor messaging reflects Orbital Industries' positioning as the AI Industrial category leader, not just