Founding Marketing Lead

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$135K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 13 days ago

Job Summary

Own and evolve Helogen's core narrative and lead the marketing and content engine across partnerships, events, PR, and market presence.

  • Translate complex tech into clear storytelling for customers, investors, media, and talent
  • Lead collateral, thought-leadership, and external partnerships with founders and executives
  • Shape events, market strategy, and data-driven improvements across the organization

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Helogen's core company narrative; translate complex concepts across space systems, biotechnology, automation, and orbital manufacturing into a clear and compelling story for customers, investors, partners, media, and talent
  • Partner with Commercial team to create collateral, including customer decks, mission briefs, vertical narratives, capability overviews, case studies, conference materials, and partner-facing assets
  • Lead thought-leadership content development and run the marketing and content distribution engine that supports our next stage of growth
  • Manage external PR, creative, and design partners
  • Develop our event and market presence strategy
  • Develop marketing processes that permeates across all functions of the company
  • Measure and analyze insights to improve how Helogen shows up in the world

Requirements

  • You have 5+ years of professional experience in marketing, branding, communications, content, growth, product marketing, or a related function, preferably within an early-stage or high-growth startup
  • Experience building marketing programs in environments where resources are limited, priorities shift quickly, and systems are being created from scratch
  • You’re equally comfortable setting strategy and executing the work
  • Strong visual and creative instincts; you recognize how great design looks and can provide useful, actionable creative direction and feedback
  • You understand how to build a category, support fundraising efforts, create market momentum, and make complex technology legible to diverse audiences
  • Comfort partnering directly with founders and executives and turning raw ideas into polished public-facing content
  • Experience managing external agencies or freelancers across PR, design, creative, content, or production
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented; you can manage competing deadlines, launches, agencies, content calendars, and internal stakeholders simultaneously
  • Resourceful and self-directed with high ownership, urgency, and accountability

Preferred

  • BA/BS/MBA in a relevant field
  • Experience in high-growth startups in sectors such as consumer health, frontier tech, space, climate, defense tech, robotics, AI, hardware, deep tech, or advanced manufacturing is strongly preferred
  • You’ve previously worked in a company like WHOOP, Oura, Levels, Eight Sleep, Ramp, Mercury, Anduril, Hadrian, Axiom, Vast, Relativity, Arc, Astranis, Ginkgo, Benchling, or another high-growth company with a strong narrative, technical product, and ambitious market vision
  • An exceptional writer and storyteller, you can distill complex technical concepts into clear, compelling language that makes a company, product, or category feel important, differentiated, and timely

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO
  • Health, dental, vision and life insurance
  • 401(k) program
  • Membership to OneMedical
  • Be part of creating something new that will change the world
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Helogen

Helogen is a space infrastructure company that enhances life on earth and enables life in space. Our technological advancements help companies bring breakthroughs in medicine and materials to market faster than anyone else. Using biology in space, we focus on accelerating early stage drug discovery and development that would otherwise be impossible on Earth.Helogen builds instrumentation that can grow, observe, and manufacture biological systems in alien conditions, leading to advancements in our understanding of novel mechanisms, geometries, and evolutions. This allows for more relevant physiological tissue models, accelerated biological processes, and the discovery of novel biologics. These instruments can be deployed on our own satellites, on space stations, and even celestial bodies. Our autonomous labs offer direct control from Earth, allowing for observation, construction, and engineering of biological systems in a reliable and predictable fashion. Product applications include Drug Discovery, Therapeutics, Oncology, Tissue Engineering, Engineered Biology, Agriculture, and more. Helogen stands at the cutting edge, harnessing the unique conditions of space to improve human health, planetary well-being, and commercial capabilities. You provide the science, we handle the rest.Visit our website to see how you can fly with us: https://www.helogen.com.

Founded in 2022
New York, New York, USA
11 employees (2 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$135K/yr – $150K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (9% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Seed

Funding History

  • Jan 2024
    Seed

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
597

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~11

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Founding Marketing Lead

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