Head of Marketing and Communications - Seasats

About Seasats: We are a nimble, highly technical business that provides defense, scientific, and commercial customers with maritime robotics solutions. Our primary products are autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) built to carry sensors at sea for months at a time.

The company is located in sunny San Diego and includes talented engineers, builders, tinkerers, and business architects. Internally, our work culture is hard working but fun. Externally, we've built a reputation for being professional, knowledgeable, and dedicated to getting the job done. For more info, check out seasats.com.

Role: Head of Marketing and Communications

Location: San Diego, CA (in-office)

Salary: $90,000-$110,000 / yr + stock options, 401k matching, and other benefits.

Role Overview: Seasats has developed sophisticated, dependable products and proven them with customers around the world. We're now looking for an all-star marketer to make Seasats the #1 option in our target customers' minds.

About You:

You're a motivated and creative marketer, someone who is good at boiling complex information down into easily digestible bites. You can create aesthetically pleasing presentations, banners, and other marketing materials, and you can also write a clear memo and stick to a schedule. You're probably not an engineer, but you're comfortable working with numbers and you don't try to sell things that break the laws of physics. In addition, you likely have:

• Deep experience in marketing, communications management, media, or visual communications
• Excellent communication, presentation, organization, and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with modern marketing technologies and tactics (including graphic design, social media management, advertising, etc.)
• Experience marketing to enterprise or government customers
• Proven history of collaborating and coordinating across multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to function well and hit deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Enough flexibility to juggle multiple projects and priorities, and enough self-awareness to understand and communicate your capacity
• Curiosity, work ethic, and humor

Bonus points if you have:

• Familiarity with the maritime sector
• Experience with WordPress, video editors, photography, and/or CAD tools
• Experience working in the technology sector
• Experience attending trade shows and conferences
• A degree in marketing, communications, or a related field
• Experience working with outside agencies

Role Details

As Seasats' Marketing and Communications Manager, you'll lead the company's branding, product marketing, communications, and social media efforts. You'll work with our business development and technical teams to capture products and specifications in appealing and shareable media, and you'll make sure that media gets shared in front of the right audiences. You will prepare for and attend events in the U.S. and occasionally internationally, speaking with customers and bringing your insights back to the team at home. 

Day-to-day, some specific tasks might include:

• Defining, implementing, and reinforcing Seasats' strategic brand identity across channels.
• Leading coordinated marketing campaigns across the company's verticals
• Scheduling, preparing for, and attending exhibits, conferences, demos, and briefings with the business development team
• Supporting bid and proposal development
• Developing digital and print communications and maintaining relationships with relevant vendors
• Procuring and maintaining physical marketing assets including models, giveaway items, banners, and booth materials
• Conducting marketing analyses to understand Seasats' customer base and build effective campaigns
• Providing support to thought leadership campaigns to reinforce a consistent image in front of media, government, and industry partner audiences

Life at Seasats:

Along with your salary, you'll receive perks including:

• Stock options
• Competitive insurance (including a 99% employer-covered Gold HMO plan or other options)
• 401k matching up to 4% of salary
• Four free lunches per week
• Access to an employee activity fund
• A pet-friendly office
• Unlimited/Flex PTO

We'll help you ramp up and will regularly take time to discuss what's working and what's not. We're also big on personal freedoms: if you're on top of your responsibilities and want the afternoon off to surf or spend time with friends and family, go for it! We have flexible hours, accommodating PTO, and a personable, high-achieving work culture. We want someone who's excited to work hard and have fun in this environment.

Our values are listed below; we're happy to explain them more during the interview process.

• Get Stuff Done
• Be Kind
• Fight Entropy
• Attack with Overwhelming Force
• Ask More Questions
• Lines, Not Dots

Hiring Notes:

If you decide to apply, you'll be asked to provide a resume and answer a few screening questions. If we decide to move forward with your application, you can expect no more than 2-3 more rounds of virtual interviews before a final in-person interview. If you have to travel to San Diego, we'll reimburse pre-approved travel costs.

Please note that we are currently unable to sponsor employment visas, so candidates must be independently authorized to work in the United States.

We appreciate diverse perspectives and life experiences, so we encourage women, minorities, and people of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We look forward to reviewing your application!