Director, Marketing Communications

About the role

We're looking for a MarCom Director to help run marketing and communications day to day: an opinionated operator who can help turn strategy into a running machine, get the best work out of top-shelf vendors, and drive creative output to the highest standard. You'll keep workstreams and partners moving in harmony, quarterback our biggest moments end to end, and help make the company look and feel bigger and more established than its size and stage at every turn.

Responsibilities

• Run the operating rhythm. Stand up and own the systems everything routes through: tasks, owners, stakeholders, statuses, and deadlines across web, social, media, bus dev / partnering support, events, and internal communications. Anyone in our orbit should be working from the same source of truth.
• Orchestrate agencies and vendors. Bring multiple PR agencies, creative, web, social, and specialist contractors together as one coordinated team rather than separate workstreams. Run the kickoffs and syncs, hold the lanes, and enable top-shelf partners to do their best work.
• Own our biggest moments end to end. Drive major announcements (transactions, partnerships, funding, program milestones) and major company events, including the convergence moments where news and events land at once. Build in global coordination and sequencing (US, Denmark, Israel, and others) from the start.
• Conceive and execute events that punch above our weight. Envision, plan, and run company events, hosted symposiums, convenings, and conference activations that make CI feel bigger than its stage. Own the full arc from concept (goal, audience, format, point of view) through build, run-of-show, and follow-through.
• Treat every event as a chance to outclass companies several times our size. Hold the creative bar. Review and elevate copy, visuals, and campaign work to a standard that ships without extensive rework or creative thrashing.
• Translate the story across every touchpoint. Take our core narrative and make it land across web, social, media, events, and partner-facing surfaces, with the right signal for each audience.
• Own asset readiness. Treat make-or-break copy and visuals as deliverables with their own deadlines, baked, reviewed and bought into before go time rather than built in a scramble.
• Sustain an always-on presence. Keep social channels, website, and content stream alive and engaging between the big moments so the audience never drifts.

Qualifications

• Director-level experience running marketing and/or communications, with a track record of owning execution end to end rather than contributing pieces.
• A career built on two strengths: sophisticated corporate marketing at a company where the work was genuinely top-tier, and time in a deep-tech or frontier-science industry (AI strongly preferred).
• Fluent in both the craft of high-end marketing and the substance of hard science.
• Love of brands and brand-building; you understand brand architecture and have participated in the development and activation of at least 1-2 strong brand programs.
• A track record conceiving and executing high-caliber events and experiential activations that punch far above the company’s weight class.
• Proven experience managing and directing top-shelf creative, PR, and specialist agencies to deliver world-class, premium output under pressure.
• Strong creative judgment: you can brief, direct, and evaluate creative work, while balancing the preferences of demanding stakeholders.
• A portfolio or body of work that is visibly a cut above category norm.
• Comfort operating alongside frontier-AI and biopharma partners and national press as a credible peer.