Marketing Manager
Thea Energy
Marketing & Communications
Kearny, NJ, USA
USD 85k-130k / year + Equity
About Thea Energy:
Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other stellarator architectures. Thea Energy is on a mission to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
Position Overview:
Thea Energy is seeking a Marketing Manager to develop and own the Company’s marketing and brand functions as we build the future of fusion energy. You'll build and execute the strategy that elevates a company that will deploy fusion power on the grid at scale, including managing our social presence, defining our visual and brand identity, and creating content that transforms a complex technology into an urgent, accessible, and inevitable movement.
The ideal candidate will be highly organized, possess excellent communication skills, and thrive in the fast-paced environment of a rapidly scaling company. Thea Energy’s dynamic team is made up of self-motivated individuals with an excitement for solving complex problems.
Key Responsibility Areas:
- Develop and own the Company's social media strategy across all platforms, growing a high-quality, engaged audience, including paid content and ad placements.
- Create and manage a robust content calendar for social and digital media, and assess relevant opportunities.
- Lead the production of videos, graphics, and other assets, including vendor management when necessary.
- Evolve, document, and enforce the Thea Energy brand and brand guidelines, including the Company’s visual identity, voice and tone, messaging, and design standards internally and externally.
- Evaluate conference and external event opportunities for Thea Energy.
- Grow and maintain the company's web presence, ensuring all digital touchpoints reflect the brand.
- Track, analyze, and report on marketing performance metrics.
- Support PR and communications efforts including press releases and company sponsored events.
- Translate complex scientific and technical concepts into compelling, shareable narratives for various audiences.
Ideal Experience & Skillsets:
- 5+ years of experience in digital marketing, brand management, and social media, with a strong portfolio of content you've owned end-to-end.
- Excellent written communication skills and ability to match tone to context across short-form socials to board-ready presentations.
- Strong visual sensibility and comfort directly producing creative assets.
- Experience owning a brand’s identity.
- Proactive, self-directed, solutions-oriented, and data-driven mindset; with an ability to independently set goals, track performance, and iterate based on results.
- Demonstrated ability to make technical or scientific subject matters engaging and accessible to broad audiences.
- Experience in deep tech, energy, space, or scientific fields is strongly preferred.
- Startup experience; comfort with ambiguity, and an ability to build from scratch and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment is strongly preferred.
- Videography, video editing, or podcast production skills is a plus.
- Experience with vendor management.
- Experience across the Adobe Creative Cloud and similar tools; quick to learn new software.
- Bachelor's degree or greater.
Company Benefits:
- Salary range $85,000-$130,000
- Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)
- Employee equity stock options
- 20 days PTO