Senior Marketing Manager – Defense Tech / Deep Tech

Orion Placement; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Vision insurance

Job summary

Confidential Employer in Austin, TX seeks a hands-on Marketing Lead to build the marketing function for a fast-growing defense tech company. You will own video, social, digital, print, trade shows, events, and brand across channels, reporting to founders and engineers.

You will craft clear customer messaging, manage external partners, and drive campaigns end-to-end, including on-site booth presence. Equity plus benefits offered; travel required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of B2B marketing experience in defense, aerospace, robotics, hardware, or deep tech.
• Hands-on experience producing or editing video and creating social content.
• Proven experience briefing and managing agencies, freelancers, production partners, or other external creatives.
• Strong written voice with the ability to translate technical products into clear, engaging customer-facing messaging.
• Demonstrated experience shipping actual campaigns, content, or creative assets, supported by a portfolio or work samples.
• Strong day-to-day fluency with AI tools for research, drafting, editing, creative iteration, and production.
• Comfort working across web and landing pages, events, booth collateral, content calendars, assets, and campaign deadlines.
• Ability to work full-time on-site in Austin, TX.
• Ability to travel for events, demonstrations, customer meetings, and partner activities as needed.
• Must qualify as a U.S. person for access to export-controlled technology and controlled messaging.
• Experience marketing autonomy, robotics, aerospace, or defense technologies is preferred.
• Direct ownership of trade-show booths, field demonstrations, or vendor rosters is preferred.
• Experience working directly with founders or technical leaders is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the company's marketing engine across video, social media, print, web, events, trade shows, and brand design.
• Produce compelling short-form product demos, explainers, long-form video, and other visual content.
• Create and manage engaging content for LinkedIn, X, and other relevant industry channels.
• Turn technical product language into sharp, credible customer-facing messaging.
• Work directly with founders, engineers, and technical leaders to identify the strongest stories.
• Personally create a significant share of early marketing content while building a network of agencies and partners.
• Brief, manage, and hold external creatives accountable for quality, deadlines, budget, and brand consistency.
• Own trade-show booths and event presence from brief to on-site execution.
• Source and create content with customers, partners, and industry stakeholders.
• Use AI tools heavily for research, ideation, drafting, editing, and production.
• Manage marketing calendars, assets, deadlines, landing pages, campaigns, and ongoing production.
• Establish the creative standard, marketing processes, and vendor ecosystem to support a broader internal team.

Skills

B2B marketing

Video production

Content creation

Agency management

AI tools

Tools

CRM

Marketing ops

Job description

Pay:$125,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year

Why This Is a Great Opportunity

• Become the first dedicated marketing hire at a fast-growing defense technology company and build the marketing function from the ground up.
• Own how the company shows up across video, social, digital, print, trade shows, events, and overall brand.
• Work directly with founders and technical leaders to turn sophisticated technology into clear, compelling stories customers can understand.
• Stay hands-on creatively while gaining increasing ownership over strategy, vendors, campaigns, and eventually an internal marketing team.
• Use AI tools every day to accelerate research, drafting, editing, creative iteration, and production.
• Receive equity in addition to base compensation and comprehensive benefits for you and your family.

Location:

Austin, TX. This is a full-time, on-site opportunity for someone who wants to work closely with founders, engineers, and technical leaders in a fast-moving environment. Travel is required for industry events, demonstrations, customer meetings, and partner activities as needed.

Note:

Must have 3+ years of B2B marketing experience within defense, aerospace, robotics, hardware, or deep tech, plus hands-on experience personally creating or editing video and managing social content. Candidates must also be able to work full-time on-site in Austin, travel as needed, provide a portfolio or work samples showing shipped campaigns or creative assets, and qualify as a U.S. person for work involving export-controlled technology.

About Us

Confidential Employer. We are a fast-growing, venture-backed defense technology company building advanced software for autonomous and unmanned systems. Our engineering-led team develops technology for demanding real-world environments, and we are looking for a highly creative marketer who can translate sophisticated products into powerful visual stories and a distinctive market presence.

Job Description

• Own the company's marketing engine across video, social media, print, web, events, trade shows, and brand design.
• Produce compelling short-form product demos, explainers, long-form video, and other visual content that makes sophisticated technology easy to understand.
• Create and manage engaging content for LinkedIn, X, and other relevant industry channels.
• Turn technical product language into sharp, credible customer-facing messaging and marketing copy.
• Work directly with founders, engineers, and technical leaders to identify the strongest stories and bring them to market.
• Personally create a significant share of early marketing content while building a trusted network of agencies, freelancers, designers, and production partners.
• Brief, manage, and hold external creative partners accountable for quality, deadlines, budget, and brand consistency.
• Own trade-show booths and event presence from creative brief and collateral through execution on-site.
• Source and create content with customers, partners, and other industry stakeholders.
• Use AI tools heavily for research, ideation, drafting, editing, creative iteration, and faster production.
• Manage marketing calendars, assets, deadlines, landing pages, campaign operations, and ongoing creative production.
• Establish the creative standard, marketing processes, and vendor ecosystem that can eventually support a broader internal marketing team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of B2B marketing experience in defense, aerospace, robotics, hardware, or deep tech.
• Hands-on experience producing or editing video and creating social media content.
• Proven experience briefing and managing agencies, freelancers, production partners, or other external creatives.
• Strong written voice with the ability to translate technical products into clear, engaging customer-facing messaging.
• Demonstrated experience shipping actual campaigns, content, or creative assets, supported by a portfolio or work samples.
• Strong day-to-day fluency with AI tools for research, drafting, editing, creative iteration, and production.
• Comfort working across web and landing pages, events, booth collateral, content calendars, assets, and campaign deadlines.
• Ability to work full-time on-site in Austin, TX.
• Ability to travel for events, demonstrations, customer meetings, and partner activities as needed.
• Must qualify as a U.S. person for access to export-controlled technology and controlled messaging.
• Experience marketing autonomy, robotics, aerospace, or defense technologies is preferred.
• Direct ownership of trade-show booths, field demonstrations, or vendor rosters is preferred.
• Experience working directly with founders or technical leaders is preferred.CRM or light marketing operations experience is a plus.

Why You Will Love Working Here

• You will have ownership instead of inheriting a narrowly defined marketing lane.
• You will work directly with the people building the technology and help determine how their work is presented to the market.
• You will be able to create, experiment, move quickly, and see your work shipped rather than getting stuck in layers of approval.
• You will help establish the company's brand, creative standards, vendor relationships, and future marketing organization.
• You will work in a visual, technology-driven environment where strong creative storytelling can have immediate impact.
• You will receive equity on top of base compensation, full medical coverage for you and your family, dental and vision benefits, flexible PTO, federal holidays plus the final two weeks of the calendar year, and three months of paid parental leave.

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Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance