Head of Marketing

Swarm Aero•2889 W. 5th ST, CA

1d•$200,000 - $245,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Swarm Aero is redefining air power by building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results. The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic. This is the one you've been waiting for. You've told other people's stories. You've polished brands someone else built. You've waited for the company where you get to help create that story. This is that company. Swarm Aero is building the autonomous systems the U.S. and its allies need to deter a peer conflict: Gamera, a Group 5 autonomous aircraft, the specialized manufacturing capacity to build them at incredible scale, and Legion, our autonomy and command and control software for coordinating swarms of uncrewed systems. Our autonomy software is already running on real programs and real hardware. Now we're scaling it onto our own aircraft. We have never had a marketer. We have a mission, a team that ships, and a story that is growing and evolving everyday. You'll be the one to shape it and tell it.

Requirements

8+ years in marketing or brand, including time as an early marketer at a high-growth startup where you built, not inherited
A storyteller first. You can take something technical and make it unforgettable in one sentence
You've shaped a company's identity before, or you've been itching to
You care about internal comms as much as external. You know culture is a story too
You know that in defense, credibility is everything. Bold, yes. Overpromising, never
You work directly with founders and the CEO and aren't afraid to push back on the story
Scrappy. You'd rather ship it yourself this week than brief an agency for next month
You believe deterrence matters and want your work to be part of it
Remote/Hybrid with an ability to be onsite in Oxnard, CA on as needed basis
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
Travel to industry events and DC as needed
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Nice To Haves

Experience with DoD, defense procurement, or government affairs
A network across defense media, industry associations, or DC
You've built a marketing function from zero

Responsibilities

Define the identity of Swarm Aero from the ground up: what we stand for, how we sound, how we look, and why anyone should care.
Turn complex autonomy and C2 technology into a story that lands with a general, a program manager, a reporter, an investor, and a senior engineer, without watering it down for any of them.
Make sure everyone inside Swarm knows where we're going, why it matters, and what just happened. All-hands narratives, leadership messages, milestone moments, and the culture that holds a fast-growing team together.
Own launches, program wins, funding announcements, partnerships, and flight, delivery, and customer milestones.
Own our footprint at AUSA, Modern Day Marine, Sea-Air-Space, SOF Week, and the rooms where requirements get shaped.
Build relationships with defense and tech media, prep leadership for stages and interviews, and manage agency partners who make us better.
Partner with our recruiting team to make Swarm the place the best engineers and operators in the country want to be.
Build the function itself: tools, budget, vendors, process, and your next hire.