Director of Marketing and Communications

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$140K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross channel narrative and distribution for an energy infrastructure story, turning complex tech into a consistent, credible voice across owned and earned media.

  • Narrative Architecture: align voice across blog, briefs, social, and press to sound like one company.
  • Editorial Pipeline: own end to end content calendar aligned with BD milestones.
  • Channel & Earned Media: shape blog, newsletter, LinkedIn strategy and build journalist relationships to place leadership stories.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage Narrative Architecture : Define Heron’s voice and vocabulary that holds across every channel and audience. The blog, the customer brief, the LinkedIn post, and the press pitch should all sound like they come from the same company with the same conviction. Your job is to make sure they d o.
  • Story Mine : The best content Heron can produce lives inside the heads of our employees. You’ll build the relationships and the process to extract it and turn it into content that no competitor can replicate. You also keep your finger on the pulse of industry conversations, competitor moves, and the moments where Heron should have a voic e.
  • Drive the Editorial Pipeline : Own the content calendar end to end — what gets made, when it ships, how it maps to the BD calendar and company milestone
  • Shape Channel Strategy and Distribution : Own the blog, newsletter, and LinkedIn. You have a clear point of view on what goes where and why. You test new channels, revamp existing ones, and identify opportunities to amplify Heron’s story at the right moment
  • Leverage Earned Media : Build relationships with the journalists and publications that matter in energy, infrastructure, and climate tech. Place stories proactively. Manage inbound press. Position Heron’s leadership as credible voices in the conversations shaping this industr y

Requirements

  • 7–10 years in B2B communications, content strategy, or technical marketing, ideally in energy, climate tech, deep tech, or infrastructure. You know the difference between what an investor needs to hear and what a customer needs to underst and.
  • Strong writing at the center of everything you do. You can write the technical explainer, the customer brief, and the newslet ter.
  • A track record of delivering communications initiatives with measurable outco mes.
  • Fluency with AI tools. You use them to extend your output and operate at the capacity of a larger team. Your strategic judgment is your own.

Benefits

  • Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits.
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Heron Power

Energy demand across industries is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, and the need for more deployable, efficient, resilient, and scalable infrastructure has never been more critical. The sustainable energy transition alone demands a 3-5x increase in global electricity generation and consumption. Heron Power is building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.

Founded in 2024
Scotts Valley, California, USA
68 employees (1 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.2%
Direct
47.1%
Referral
8.1%
Social
19%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~68

Funding

Total Funding
$178M
Last Raise
$140M
Series B, 26 days ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Series B • $140M
  • May 2025
    Series A • $38M

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