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Backed by Founders Fund, Felicis, First Round Capital, and Point72 Ventures, our founding team includes veterans from SpaceX, Helion, Blue Origin, and Apple. We have completed multiple deep-ocean deployments to subsea volcanoes and are launching a long-term demonstration project this fall. By leveraging modular design, manufacturing scale, efficient drilling, and latent cooling on the seafloor, we are pioneering a new category of energy that outperforms traditional sources on environmental impact, deployment speed, and cost.\nWhat you'll be doing\nAs 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.\nYou 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.\nThis 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn 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\n\nWrite and own press releases, announcements, fact sheets, and the key messages document every spokesperson works from\n\nPrepare and media-train relevant members of the team sit in on interviews, and provide post-interview feedback to interviewees\n\nOwn our social channels (LinkedIn, X): strategy, content calendar, writing, posting, community management, and metrics\n\nGet 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\n\nBuild and run our crisis and incident communications plan, including environmental, safety, and deployment scenarios, with clear owners and approval paths\n\nWrite and enforce our PR and public statement guidelines: what employees can share, who approves what, and how we handle inbound and outbound media\n\nOwn internal communications: all-hands agendas and run of show, company-wide announcements, leadership updates, and onboarding content on mission and strategy\n\nSupport financing announcements, partner and customer announcements, and conference and event appearances\n\nSupport External Affairs on community relations, public comment periods, and stakeholder outreach\n\nPartner with our Head of Creative on photo, video, and website content, and with our People team on employer brand and recruiting content\n\nRequired Qualifications\n5+ years of communications experience, with a mix of in-house and agency or newsroom work\n\nExcellent writer and editor who can turn a complex technical result into a clear, accurate story in a rapid paced environment\n\nExperience media-training, preparing, and partnering with executives for interviews, panels, and press events\n\nExperience owning company social channels and building a content calendar\n\nExperience handling a crisis or sensitive issue in public, with sound judgment about what to say, when, and who signs off\n\nHigh ownership mindset and comfort working independently\n\nAble to work on-site in Seattle, with occasional travel to deployments, events, and partner sites\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrevious experience in energy, government affairs, climate tech, hardware, aerospace, or deep tech\n\nExperience at a startup through a major financing round or launch\n\nInternational communications experience, especially in APAC\n\nCompensation, Benefits, & Perks\nAs 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.\nA 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. 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