Comms & Content Lead

About Nominal Nominal builds connected test and operations infrastructure for teams who build, test, and operate the most consequential machines on Earth. Think: nuclear reactors, satellites, jets, autonomous vehicles, defense systems, manufacturing lines. Our customers are engineering teams that Nominal to move faster, catch problems earlier, and ship hardware that works. We're backed by Sequoia, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and General Catalyst. We have raised $182 million to date, most recently at a $1 billion valuation. The company is 135 people, growing fast, and at the forefront of defining how hardware engineering teams work for the next decade. 🚀 About the role This person owns how the world perceives Nominal and how the best people in the world decide to come work here. You report directly to a co-founder who is obsessed with the company’s narrative and leads the team in charge of marketing, comms, and overall ~storytelling~. Nominal's marketing org has three pillars: Growth owns pipeline and field. Product Marketing owns positioning. Comms & Content owns perception, reputation, and external signal. This is the third pillar. You’re helping build it from the ground up. The surface area is enormous. We have customers building autonomous maritime platforms, hypersonic vehicles, and space launch systems who are opening their doors and asking us to tell their stories. We're the official software partner for Corvette Racing program. We're winning federal contracts that reshape how the Department of Defense manages test and operations across trillion dollars of program and tens of thousands of employees. The raw material for world-class storytelling is everywhere. We need someone to do it justice alongside our brand and design team. ✨ What You'll do Own the narrative. Brand voice, messaging guardrails, and the quality bar for everything external. You decide what we say, how we say it, and what we don't. Tell customer stories. Our customers are the heroes. You'll build relationships with engineering teams at defense primes, aerospace startups, and robotics companies, then turn what they're doing with Nominal into stories that travel. Case studies, editorial, documentary-style video, technical essays. The format matters less than the instinct for what's interesting. Build the federal and defense narrative. Nominal is becoming critical infrastructure for national security programs. You'll help us tell that story to the right audiences, navigate ITAR and classification sensitivities with care, and turn contract wins and partnership announcements into moments that compound. Run social. You own Nominal's presence on LinkedIn, X, and wherever the conversation is happening. Day-to-day posting, audience building, engagement strategy. You're not setting a calendar for someone else to execute. You're the one building the following. Amplify leadership. Our founders and senior leaders already think and write publicly about engineering culture, defense modernization, and what it takes to build resilient things. They have no qualms about using their voices. You're their editor and sparring partner. You help our CEO, co-founders, and other leaders sound like themselves, but sharper and more visible. Own PR and media. Strategic, not reactive. You'll build relationships with the reporters and independent media voices who matter. You know when to pitch and when to stay quiet. You turn fundraises, partnerships, and wins into moments that build on each other. Build the talent brand. We compete with the likes of Anthropic, Ramp, and Cursor for talent. You make ambitious people think: I need to be there. Not with platitudes about culture. With real stories about real work in the real world that inspire grounded and obsessed engineers and operators to choose Nominal. ⚡ Skills that accelerate us We're open on background. What matters is the combination of instinct, intensity, and, yes, craft. Some example profiles that would make us ... (truncated, view full listing at source)