Head of Communications

Location: Remote / Flexible
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Communications
Reports To: CEO / Founders / CMO
Equity: Yes

Salary Range 170K to 220K

About Tiberius Aerospace

Tiberius Aerospace is building the next generation of weapons systems for the United States, United Kingdom, and their allies.

We believe the future of defense will be built differently — with faster iteration, tighter integration between software and hardware, and a more modern approach to how mission-critical systems are designed, tested, deployed, and improved. Tiberius is building technologies that do not stop evolving once they leave the factory, while helping shape a defense ecosystem that connects engineers, operators, manufacturers, governments, and allies into a continuously learning system.

To serve our nations with Strength, Honor, and Purpose — forging the systems that defend freedom and shape the future of defense.

Position Overview

Tiberius Aerospace is seeking a Head of Communications to define how the world understands the company.

This is not a traditional corporate communications role. We are not looking for someone to manage an inherited playbook, maintain a routine press calendar, or simply react to the business as it evolves. We are looking for a communications architect — someone who can translate complex technology, ambitious founders, consequential programs, tests, setbacks, wins, contracts, and ideas into a narrative that is clear, memorable, and strategically powerful.

This role will work directly with the CEO, founders, CMO, product leaders, engineers, government teams, customers, and partners to shape not only what Tiberius says, but when it says it, who says it, and why it matters.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer, editor, strategist, and operator with strong judgment, high standards, and the ability to move quickly in an environment where timelines shift, information is incomplete, and the stakes are high.

What You’ll Do

Build and own the communications strategy behind Tiberius’s ambition to become one of the defining companies of the new defense industrial base
Develop and sharpen the company’s external narrative: what Tiberius believes, what it is building, why it matters, and why its approach is different
Help founders become consequential voices in the conversations shaping defense, technology, and national security
Identify the ideas worth owning and develop speeches, essays, interviews, posts, statements, and strategic moments that are unmistakably theirs
Work directly with engineers and product teams to understand what is being built and translate deeply technical work into compelling, accurate communications
Create communications strategies around launches, tests, demonstrations, milestones, deployments, partnerships, contracts, and new capabilities
Build trusted relationships with journalists across defense, technology, business, policy, and national security
Advise leadership through criticism, misinformation, sensitive programs, difficult questions, and high-stakes reputation moments
Build the communications organization, operating cadence, and systems required for the company Tiberius is becoming

Core Responsibilities

Company Narrative

Develop and continually refine Tiberius’s external narrative
Define the position Tiberius can own across defense, technology, government, capital markets, and culture
Ensure the company is increasingly difficult to misunderstand — and increasingly difficult to ignore

Founder Communications

Work directly with founders to shape their voice in the public conversation
Identify the arguments, positions, and ideas worth owning
Develop speeches, essays, interviews, and posts that strengthen founder voice without diluting it

Product & Technology Communications

Partner with engineers and product teams to understand what is actually being built
Translate technical work clearly and credibly without oversimplifying it
Develop communications strategies around launches, tests, demonstrations, milestones, deployments, and engineering breakthroughs
Know the difference between something technically impressive and something genuinely newsworthy

Media Relations

Build and manage trusted relationships with journalists and outlets shaping conversations across defense, technology, business, policy, and national security
Know when to pursue a story, when to offer background, when exclusivity matters, and when the press is not the right channel

Strategic Communications

Lead major communications moments involving:
- New weapons and platforms
- Flight and live-fire testing
- Government contracts
- International expansion
- Manufacturing
- Partnerships
- Operational milestones
- GRAIL and software
- Capital events
- Company growth
- Founder point of view

Issues & Reputation

Help leadership navigate scrutiny, criticism, misinformation, and sensitive moments with speed and sound judgment
Bring clarity and discipline to communications where technology, geopolitics, public opinion, and national security intersect

Build the Function

Build the communications capability required for a rapidly scaling defense company
Establish team structure, agency relationships, processes, launch systems, rapid-response frameworks, measurement, and operating cadence
Leave behind a function substantially stronger and more sophisticated than the one you inherited

What You’ll Bring

10+ years of experience across communications, journalism, technology, defense, government, public affairs, policy, or a similarly high-consequence environment
Exceptional writing and editing skills across multiple formats, from executive communications to public narrative
Strong editorial judgment and the ability to identify the most compelling angle in a complex story
Experience working directly with founders, CEOs, or senior executives with strong points of view
Ability to translate complex technical work into clear, credible, and differentiated external communications
Strong understanding of media, influence, reputation, and how technology and public narrative shape one another
Comfort operating in ambiguity, under changing timelines, and at high velocity
A high-ownership mindset and the ability to build, not simply manage

Preferred

Experience building communications for an ambitious technology, aerospace, defense, or national security company
Experience leading communications around products or technologies that required explanation before they could generate excitement
Experience navigating launches, crises, regulatory environments, government customers, or geopolitical complexity
Experience building or scaling a communications function
Strong network across defense, technology, business, policy, national security, and mainstream media

What We’re Looking For

Someone unusually good at identifying the interesting thing
Someone who can sit with an engineer for thirty minutes and find the sentence everyone else missed
Someone who understands technology, power, media, and the internet — and how those forces increasingly collide
Someone comfortable around founders with strong opinions and high standards
Someone who knows the difference between being provocative and being interesting, between being loud and being important, and between attention and reputation
Someone who can write — really write — and recognize great writing in others
Someone with taste, precision, speed, and conviction

Growth Opportunity

There are rare moments when a company, an industry, and the world change at the same time. Defense is in one of those moments.

The systems being built now will influence how deterrence works, how wars are fought, how allied nations collaborate, and how quickly technology reaches the people who need it. The companies that define this era will need more than extraordinary engineering. They will need extraordinary clarity about what they believe and why they exist.

This role offers the opportunity to build that clarity at Tiberius.

How We Support You

Competitive base salary
Equity participation
Flexible PTO plus 9 bank holidays, 48 hours sick leave, and 5 days bereavement leave
Parental leave (2 weeks)
Best-in-class health insurance — medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of premiums paid for by Tiberius
STD, LTD, Life and AD&D insurance
401(k)

Equal Opportunity Employer

Tiberius Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Company maintains policies and practices designed to prevent discrimination or harassment against any qualified applicant or employee to the extent prohibited by federal, state, and local laws and regulations. By way of example, discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law is prohibited.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or need an alternative method for applying, you may contact [email protected] for assistance. Tiberius Aerospace, Inc. participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your I-9 Form information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Steve Brown
Recruiter
Tiberius
760 877 3135
[email protected]

Tiberius Aerospace

Head of Communications

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