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About the Role
Aurora's mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. We are searching for a Head of Marketing and Communications to lead our overarching brand and messaging strategy, reporting to our President and overseeing marketing, external communications, internal communications, and creative teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team covering marketing, external communications/PR, internal communications, and creative design, uniting them under one brand vision and one team.
- Develop and execute comprehensive marketing and communications strategies that align with Aurora’s mission to deploy the Aurora Driver safely and broadly.
- Define and report the metrics that demonstrate marketing and communications' impact to the business, including establishing what excellent looks like for communications, where impact is hardest to quantify.
- Partner closely with Government Relations (GR), Investor Relations (IR), Business Development (BD), and the People organization to craft unified messaging for policymakers, investors, partners, employees, and the public.
- Drive brand equity across all key audiences, owning brand reputation in a safety-critical industry, preparing Aurora for its highest-stakes moments and serving as a strategic advisor to the executive leadership team.
- Guide internal communications strategy to foster a transparent, aligned, and highly engaged company culture.
- Ensure cohesive storytelling across all marketing and communication pillars, partnering with creative leadership so campaigns and assets consistently reflect our unified brand.
Requirements
- 15+ years of progression in leadership scope and experience in marketing, communications, or public relations, ideally within the technology, transportation, logistics, or autonomous systems sectors.
- Proven organization builder and people leader with experience designing, scaling, and evolving marketing and communications teams through rapid commercial scaling and organizational change.
- Demonstrated success marketing in enterprise B2B environments, including account-based strategies that build demand and pipeline.
- Experience in executive communications and crisis management, including personally leading an organization's communications through a real crisis in a safety-critical or highly scrutinized industry.
- Analytical fluency, with a track record of measuring marketing and communications programs and articulating their ROI to executive and board-level stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating closely with Government Relations, and Investor Relations to build cohesive corporate narratives in a highly regulated industry.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of distilling complex, highly technical concepts into accessible, impactful messaging for broad audiences.
- Deep experience managing executive communications, crisis management, and large-scale media campaigns.
- Previous experience navigating public markets, including supporting earnings calls, investor days, and financial communications.
- Familiarity with the autonomous vehicle landscape, the commercial trucking/logistics industry, or the broader automotive ecosystem.
- Existing, strong relationships with top-tier business, technology, and automotive media.
Skills
- Marketing strategy
- Communications strategy
- Brand strategy
- Messaging strategy
- External communications
- Internal communications
- Creative design leadership
- Public relations
- Executive communications
- Crisis management
- B2B marketing
- Account-based marketing
- Demand generation
- Pipeline building
- Analytics
- ROI articulation
- Corporate narrative building
- Media relations
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 15+ years of leadership experience
About the Company
- Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.
- At Aurora, we operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.
- We believe in-person work increases collaboration, empathy and our ability to lead effectively.
- At the core of everything we do is our commitment to safety. Building best-in-class self-driving technology will take time, and we believe that each employee at Aurora has a role in contributing to safety, every step of the way.
Equal Opportunity
- Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law.
- Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.
- We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
- For California applicants, information collected and processed as part of your application and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Aurora’s California Employment Privacy Policy.