Director of Strategic Communications

Responsibilities

Strategic Communications & Company Narrative

• Define and maintain the company’s external narrative, aligning it with strategy, milestones, and business priorities.
• Translate technical, operational, financial, and commercial progress into clear, credible messaging for external audiences.
• Ensure consistent messaging across investor materials, public-facing content, executive communications, and company updates.
• Refine positioning based on company progress, stakeholder feedback, market conditions, and leadership priorities.
• Ensure communications are accurate, professional, and aligned with long-term strategy.

Investor & Market Communications

• Lead development of investor-facing materials, including pitch decks, company updates, strategic narratives, and supporting communications.
• Partner with executive leadership and finance on fundraising, investor engagement, and external stakeholder communications.
• Prepare leadership for investor meetings, presentations, conferences, and other external engagements.
• Develop messaging around company milestones, financing activity, strategic partnerships, and business progress.
• Apply public company, capital markets, or investor communications discipline to external materials and messaging processes.

Executive Communications

• Work with the CEO, CFO, and executive leadership team to shape messaging, positioning, and communication priorities.
• Draft, edit, and refine executive presentations, talking points, company updates, speeches, board-facing materials, and other high-visibility communications.
• Ensure executive communications are clear, consistent, concise, and appropriate for the audience.
• Help leadership communicate company strategy and progress credibly and clearly.
• Manage sensitive and high-visibility communications with discretion and sound judgment.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with finance, engineering, operations, commercial, legal, and other teams to ensure communications are accurate and aligned with company realities.
• Gather information from technical and business teams and convert it into clear external messaging.
• Coordinate review of high-impact communications with appropriate internal stakeholders.
• Serve as a central point of coordination for external messaging and communications materials.
• Bridge technical, financial, and business content into a coherent company story.

Communications Infrastructure

• Build scalable communications processes, tools, templates, and review workflows.
• Establish standards for messaging, content development, presentation quality, and external communications review.
• Maintain core company messaging, approved language, executive materials, and investor communication assets.
• Evaluate and manage external communications partners, consultants, or agencies as needed.
• Support development of a broader communications function over time.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Business, Finance, English, Journalism, Marketing, or a related field.
• 8–12+ years of experience in strategic communications, corporate communications, investor relations, executive communications, financial communications, consulting, or a related field.
• Experience in a public company, pre-IPO company, investor-facing environment, capital markets setting, or high-growth business is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience developing executive-level messaging, investor materials, company narratives, presentations, or external communications.
• Strong understanding of business strategy, financial concepts, investor expectations, and market positioning.
• Exceptional writing, editing, storytelling, and presentation development skills.
• Ability to translate complex business, technical, operational, and financial topics into clear and credible messaging.
• Strong judgment and ability to manage sensitive, confidential, or high-visibility communications.
• Experience working directly with executive leadership.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in energy, manufacturing, industrial technology, aerospace, defense, infrastructure, or other complex sectors.
• Nuclear industry experience is not required.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off and holidays

Compensation

• Estimated starting base salary range: $165,000–$210,000 annually.
• Actual salary may vary based on experience, qualifications, skill set, availability of qualified candidates, geographic location, certifications, and other job-related factors.

Work Environment

• Based in Greenwich, CT.
• Close collaboration with executive leadership, finance, engineering, and operations teams.
• Ownership of high-impact external communications and coordination across multiple stakeholders.
• Participation in investor-facing activities.
• Occasional travel may be required for meetings and events.