Communications Lead

What You'll Be Doing

• As our first in-house Communications hire, you will help own and tell our story externally and internally.
• You will be a partner and collaborate closely with our Head of Creative and company leadership.
• You will drive strategy and execute on PR relationships, craft key messaging, and build the broader infrastructure for our communications ecosystem.

You will be hands-on: writing press releases, pitching reporters, prepping company leadership for interviews and speaking events, and drafting external and internal messaging and material. You will also build the systems behind the work: key messages, talking points, a media list, a content calendar, public statement guidelines, crisis plans, and more, so that the team can communicate clearly without waiting on you.

This is a critical position with regards to how we explain a first-of-a-kind energy technology, accurately and with confidence, directly affects our ability to build trust, raise capital, earn community support, and hire great people.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Earned Media: Build relationships with energy, climate, technology, and business reporters, pitch stories, manage embargoes, and run every interview from briefing book to follow-up
• Write and own press releases, announcements, fact sheets, and the key messages document every spokesperson works from
• Prepare and media-train relevant members of the team sit in on interviews, and provide post-interview feedback to interviewees
• Own our social channels (LinkedIn, X): strategy, content calendar, writing, posting, community management, and metrics
• Get the technical story right. Work with engineering to make sure every public claim about our technology, our sites, and our results is accurate before it goes out
• Build and run our crisis and incident communications plan, including environmental, safety, and deployment scenarios, with clear owners and approval paths
• Write and enforce our PR and public statement guidelines: what employees can share, who approves what, and how we handle inbound and outbound media
• Own internal communications: all-hands agendas and run of show, company-wide announcements, leadership updates, and onboarding content on mission and strategy
• Support financing announcements, partner and customer announcements, and conference and event appearances
• Support External Affairs on community relations, public comment periods, and stakeholder outreach
• Partner with our Head of Creative on photo, video, and website content, and with our People team on employer brand and recruiting content

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of communications experience, with a mix of in-house and agency or newsroom work
• Excellent writer and editor who can turn a complex technical result into a clear, accurate story in a rapid paced environment
• Experience media-training, preparing, and partnering with executives for interviews, panels, and press events
• Experience owning company social channels and building a content calendar
• Experience handling a crisis or sensitive issue in public, with sound judgment about what to say, when, and who signs off
• High ownership mindset and comfort working independently
• Able to work on-site in Seattle, with occasional travel to deployments, events, and partner sites

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in energy, government affairs, climate tech, hardware, aerospace, or deep tech
• Experience at a startup through a major financing round or launch
• International communications experience, especially in APAC

Compensation, Benefits, & Perks

As a pre-revenue startup, Endurance Energy offers competitive base salaries and generous equity packages for full-time employees. Final base salary will be determined by an array of factors including internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and work experience.

• A key aspect of our compensation philosophy is that value creation should be aligned with rewards.
• Right now this means equity is a significant portion of every full-time employee's compensation.
• As the company matures, there will be continued evolution and changes to the total rewards and total compensation package.
• What will always be true is that if we win, we win together.
• Equity is granted to every full-time employee as a meaningful piece of ownership.
• We believe the people building the company should share directly in the value they create.

In addition to a competitive base salary and equity, employees will receive all of our other great benefits and perks, including:

• Benefits: Health, Dental, and Vision insurance coverage
• Time Away: Flexible PTO including 12 paid company holidays
• Global Fieldwork: Travel to fascinating deployment sites along oceanic ridges in locations like the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, and the Azores
• Hands-on Experience: Participate in sea trials and deployment operations in partnership with leading oceanographic institutions
• Cutting-edge Development: Work with technology that spans high-power electronics, marine systems, and clean energy
• Impactful Work: Help solve one of the world's most pressing challenges
• Dive Certification: Company-sponsored recreational dive certification
• Other Perks: Access to the company boat, free meals and snacks, and the list goes on!

If you’re selected for consideration, a recruiter will be able to discuss in greater detail.