Company Description
Otavo.ai is a global AI-powered platform focused on senior-level recruitment for roles ranging from $50K USD to $2M+ in compensation. Founded by serial entrepreneur Mahak Garg, a Stanford MBA and Forbes Under 30 honoree, the company builds on her experience scaling previous ventures and raising significant global venture capital. Otavo.ai currently partners with 30+ fast-growing companies worldwide to support their senior talent hiring needs. The platform maintains a curated network of 10,000+ high-performing candidates with 5–20 years of experience, including alumni from leading global business schools and professionals in senior roles across product, marketing, strategy, and more. For each opening, Otavo.ai shares a small number of pre-vetted, high-quality candidates, helping employers avoid long lists of weak matches and streamline decision-making.
Role Description
Otavo.ai is looking to hire for one of it's clients for the role of:
Location: Mils, Austria
Languages Required: English and German
Compensation
The minimum salary under the Austrian collective agreement for the metal trades is €3,654.05 gross per month (full-time). We are willing to pay more depending on qualifications and experience.
Your role
In short: You will define how the world sees:
- We are looking for a marketing and communications expert who wants to build a brand from the ground up. You will take the lead in developing the full marketing and communications strategy of a breakthrough deep-tech scale-up, shaping how it is positioned, understood, and recognized by customers, partners, media, investors, and the public.
- You will own external communication across brand, content, PR, events, and communication materials.
- Working directly with the core team, you will turn a highly technical innovation into a clear, powerful, and globally recognizable story.
- This role is central next growth phase: as our technology moves from pilot to serial product, media visibility and communication becomes a strategic growth driver.
- Team up with Sales to build and position bold, unconventional projects and campaigns- from account-based marketing to creative formats for hard-to-access decision-makers
- Develop market- and stakeholder-specific positioning, messaging, and value propositions
- Plan and activate presence at trade fairs, conferences, demo days, and roundtables
- Create sales enablement assets: pitch decks, one-pagers, case studies, reference stories
- Own and develop the brand, story and visual identity as we scale internationally
- Drive content across LinkedIn, website, newsletters, and other channels
- Lead PR, media communication, and strategic announcements
- Track reach, leads, and contribution to commercial opportunities
Your profile
- 2-5 years of experience in B2B marketing, ideally in a start-up, scale-up, or agency environment, with ownership of your own projects
- Strong commercial instinct and a natural drive to work closely with Sales
- Hands-on mindset: comfortable creating high-quality materials yourself and driving projects from idea to execution
- Analytical mindset and appetite for experimentation
- Track record of out-of-the-box thinking and unconventional marketing approaches - we like people with a slightly crazy mindset
- Professional fluency in German and English, willingness to travel
Bonus
- Experience with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, or comparable design tools
- Previous experience in a marketing agency, communications agency, or brand consultancy
Why us?
- A rare opportunity to join one of Europe’s most ambitious greentech start-ups at a decisive growth stage, with the ambition to become a future unicorn
- The opportunity to build the full marketing and communications strategy of a fast-growing deep-tech company from the ground up
- A strategic role with real ownership, direct responsibility, and visible impact on how it is perceived by customers,