Strategic Science Communications Lead (Hybrid)

QuantWare BV; Delft; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension plan

Hybrid setup

L&D budget

Team events

Open vacation policy

Job summary

QuantWare is seeking a Science Communications Manager to shape how our quantum technology is explained to physicists, customers, analysts and press. You will co-author peer-reviewed papers, lead proposals, and produce whitepapers, explainers, blogs and conference material in close collaboration with our R&D team and VP Marketing.

Fluent English writing is essential; Dutch is not required. Join a team pursuing VIO technology and contribute to investor briefings and public communications with

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Physics, Engineering, or comparable technical field with 3+ years in technical or science communications, or a PhD with 2+ years of communications experience.
• Writing: Excellent writing skills and ability to make hard technical material simple - without making it wrong.
• Audience Instinct: You can tell what a physicist, an investor, or a journalist each need from the same underlying scientific story.
• Collaboration: You get energy from working with vastly different teams (R&D, Product, Management, Marketing).
• Mindset: Comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, embargoed material, and time pressure.
• Language: Fluent, publication-quality written English. Dutch is not required.

Responsibilities

• Scientific Publication: Co-write and edit peer-reviewed papers and preprints with our R&D teams.
• Proposals & Grant Writing: Lead the technical writing on competitive proposals to government and funding agencies, working with technical leads, project managers and consortium partners.
• Technical Content Production: Create whitepapers, explainer videos, blog posts, website technical copy, and conference material.
• Story Development: Work with engineering leads to support the VP Marketing in identifying the technical themes worth building narratives around.
• Executive Support: Prepare technical material & briefings for investor/analyst calls, media appearances and keynotes for our CEO.
• Technical Accuracy & Framing: Own the language, framing, and factual defensibility of QuantWare’s public-facing communication materials.
• Reporting line: You will report to the VP Marketing

Skills

Science communications

Technical writing

Audience awareness

Collaboration

English writing

Education

Master’s degree in Physics/Engineering

PhD with comms experience

Job description

QuantWare is seeking a Science Communications Manager to shape how our quantum technology is explained to physicists, customers, analysts and press. You will co-author peer-reviewed papers, lead proposals, and produce whitepapers, explainers, blogs and conference material in close collaboration with our R&D team and VP Marketing.

Fluent English writing is essential; Dutch is not required. Join a team pursuing VIO technology and contribute to investor briefings and public communications with