Senior Marketing Manager - Defense Tech Deep Tech

Pay: $125000.00 - $175000.00 per year

Why This Is a Great Opportunity

• Become the first dedicated marketing hire at a fast-growing defense technology company and build the marketing function from the ground up.
• Own how the company shows up across video social digital print trade shows events and overall brand.
• Work directly with founders and technical leaders to turn sophisticated technology into clear compelling stories customers can understand.
• Stay hands-on creatively while gaining increasing ownership over strategy vendors campaigns and eventually an internal marketing team.
• Use AI tools every day to accelerate research drafting editing creative iteration and production.
• Receive equity in addition to base compensation and comprehensive benefits for you and your family.

Location:

Austin TX. This is a full-time on-site opportunity for someone who wants to work closely with founders engineers and technical leaders in a fast-moving environment. Travel is required for industry events demonstrations customer meetings and partner activities as needed.

Note:

Must have 3 years of B2B marketing experience within defense aerospace robotics hardware or deep tech plus hands-on experience personally creating or editing video and managing social content. Candidates must also be able to work full-time on-site in Austin travel as needed provide a portfolio or work samples showing shipped campaigns or creative assets and qualify as a U.S. person for work involving export-controlled technology.

About Us

Confidential Employer. We are a fast-growing venture-backed defense technology company building advanced software for autonomous and unmanned systems. Our engineering-led team develops technology for demanding real-world environments and we are looking for a highly creative marketer who can translate sophisticated products into powerful visual stories and a distinctive market presence.

Job Description

• Own the companys marketing engine across video social media print web events trade shows and brand design.
• Produce compelling short-form product demos explainers long-form video and other visual content that makes sophisticated technology easy to understand.
• Create and manage engaging content for LinkedIn X and other relevant industry channels.
• Turn technical product language into sharp credible customer-facing messaging and marketing copy.
• Work directly with founders engineers and technical leaders to identify the strongest stories and bring them to market.
• Personally create a significant share of early marketing content while building a trusted network of agencies freelancers designers and production partners.
• Brief manage and hold external creative partners accountable for quality deadlines budget and brand consistency.
• Own trade-show booths and event presence from creative brief and collateral through execution on-site.
• Source and create content with customers partners and other industry stakeholders.
• Use AI tools heavily for research ideation drafting editing creative iteration and faster production.
• Manage marketing calendars assets deadlines landing pages campaign operations and ongoing creative production.
• Establish the creative standard marketing processes and vendor ecosystem that can eventually support a broader internal marketing team.

Qualifications

• 3 years of B2B marketing experience in defense aerospace robotics hardware or deep tech.
• Hands-on experience producing or editing video and creating social media content.
• Proven experience briefing and managing agencies freelancers production partners or other external creatives.
• Strong written voice with the ability to translate technical products into clear engaging customer-facing messaging.
• Demonstrated experience shipping actual campaigns content or creative assets supported by a portfolio or work samples.
• Strong day-to-day fluency with AI tools for research drafting editing creative iteration and production.
• Comfort working across web and landing pages events booth collateral content calendars assets and campaign deadlines.
• Ability to work full-time on-site in Austin TX.
• Ability to travel for events demonstrations customer meetings and partner activities as needed.
• Must qualify as a U.S. person for access to export-controlled technology and controlled messaging.
• Experience marketing autonomy robotics aerospace or defense technologies is preferred.
• Direct ownership of trade-show booths field demonstrations or vendor rosters is preferred.
• Experience working directly with founders or technical leaders is preferred.
• CRM or light marketing operations experience is a plus.

Why You Will Love Working Here

• You will have ownership instead of inheriting a narrowly defined marketing lane.
• You will work directly with the people building the technology and help determine how their work is presented to the market.
• You will be able to create experiment move quickly and see your work shipped rather than getting stuck in layers of approval.
• You will help establish the companys brand creative standards vendor relationships and future marketing organization.
• You will work in a visual technology-driven environment where strong creative storytelling can have immediate impact.
• You will receive equity on top of base compensation full medical coverage for you and your family dental and vision benefits flexible PTO federal holidays plus the final two weeks of the calendar year and three months of paid parental leave.

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Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Requirements: Must-have: 3 yrs B2B marketing in defense aerospace robotics hardware or deep tech.. Must have hands-on video social experience.

• Required Years as Associate: 3

Submission Email / Name: Arthur -

Quick Recruiter Reference

Fast-growing defense/autonomy software company hiring its first marketing leader to own video social brand events and external creatives. Must have 3 years B2B marketing experience in defense aerospace robotics hardware or deep tech plus hands-on video and social experience. Full-time on-site Austin role with $125K to $175K base plus equity.

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