Chief Marketing Officer

Our client builds rockets and spacecraft that actually fly. They're pushing the physics and manufacturing at a scale that makes most aerospace look conservative. Now they need a CMO to build marketing from scratch.

This isn't a brand stewardship role. It's a leadership job for someone who can take genuinely difficult engineering - reusable launch vehicles, satellite constellations, crewed spacecraft - and translate it into narratives that land with three completely different audiences: commercial launch customers, government agencies, and the consumers who will actually use the broadband. Each one speaks a different language. Each one needs to understand why this company's approach is different.

You'll own global marketing strategy across all three programmes. That means aligning messaging so a government customer in one country, a telecom company in another, and a satellite internet user worldwide all understand what makes this company worth trusting with their most critical missions. You'll hire and build the team - marketing, comms, brand - from the ground up. You won't inherit a function. You'll create it.

The company moves at a velocity that most aerospace companies don't. That shapes everything. There's a test campaign happening next week that might fail spectacularly - and the company will learn from it and iterate. There's a launch window you need to communicate around. There's a manufacturing milestone that proves something people said was impossible. Your job is to capture that momentum without losing the credibility.

You need to be genuinely fluent in aerospace and engineering. You don't need a PhD, but you need to read the data, understand the physics, and talk to engineers without pretending. You'll spend time at the factory and the test site, not just in meetings. You need to be able to sit across from a sceptical government customer and explain why they should take a risk on this company.

The company's locations are Hawthorne, Starbase, Redmond, Woodinville, and others. Some of this role will be remote, some on-site. You'll need to be comfortable working across distributed teams.

This role exists because the product roadmap is too ambitious to let marketing catch up. If you can keep pace with it, and you want to build something from the ground up in the highest-stakes industry there is, we should talk.