Communications Lead

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. 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. We have an ambitious mission and need excellent people in all our teams - AI research, operations, advanced materials, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and manufacturing. 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. 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. Key Responsibilities Communications Strategy and Brand Voice • Define and own Orbital Industries' external communications strategy — how we are positioned, perceived, and understood in the market • Build and enforce consistency in brand voice across all external channels: website, social, events, collateral, press • Set the messaging framework for CurieOS and its three pillars (Materials, Deployment, Hardware), ensuring our full-lifecycle positioning is sharp and differentiated • Write strong creative and messaging briefs for design, video, and campaign work — giving the GTM team clear strategic direction to execute against • Ensure a clean separation between Orbital Industries (brand authority, category definition) and Orbital IT (commercial, customer-facing) in how we communicate externally Stakeholder messaging • Work closely with the CFO and founders to ensure investor messaging reflects Orbital Industries' positioning as the AI Industrial category leader, not just a product company • Translate technical milestones (CurieOS releases, customer deployments, materials breakthroughs) into compelling narratives Content and copy • Own long-form writing, thought leadership, website messaging, investor content, and campaign assets - from strategy through to production • Produce content that makes Orbital Industries' work in AI, materials science and hardware engineering accessible without losing credibility or nuance — you know the difference between simplifying and dumbing down • Develop and maintain CurieOS content across its three pillars: materials discovery, deployment engineering, and hardware product development • Use LLMs and modern tools to work efficiently while maintaining high editorial standards Social Media Strategy • Own organic social strategy: voice, editorial calendar, content direction and output quality • Build Orbital Industries' social presence into a distinctive point of view, not just a broadcast channel — the GTM team handles day-to-day posting and scheduling • Tra