Full Job Description
Your mission is to make embedded electricity feel inevitable and establish Light as the company defining the category.
You'll join as Light's founding marketing leader, working directly alongside the founders and GTM team to define how we tell our story and bring it to market. You'll own Light's narrative, translate it into compelling stories for the different markets we serve, and build the marketing function that turns that story into awareness, demand, and growth.
As our first marketer, you'll start as a hands-on generalist, working across positioning and messaging, content, PR and communications, partner marketing, social and earned media, field and events, and whatever else helps get Light in front of the right companies. You'll establish what works, build the systems behind it, and then hire and develop the team to scale it.
This is an opportunity to join at an inflection point: a new category waiting to be defined, a growing set of partners and markets to tell stories about, and the resources to build something ambitious, while still early enough that your point of view will shape what Light stands for in the world.
In your first six months, you will:
- Define and own Light's category narrative. Nail the "why now" for embedded electricity and build the story that establishes Light as the company defining the category.
- Build a messaging system that scales. Translate one overarching Light narrative into compelling stories for home electrification, mobility, real estate, fintech, data centers, and our next markets.
- Build our marketing engine from zero. Determine where and how Light should show up across PR, content & communications, partner marketing, social and earned media, field and events, and other marketing channels.
- Turn narrative into GTM leverage. Work closely with Product, Sales and Partner Success to create the stories, content, case studies, and collateral that generate interest and help move important opportunities forward.
- Put Light into the broader conversation. Build relationships and create moments that make Light visible in the conversations shaping the future of energy, electrification, and the economy.
- Build the foundation for a world-class marketing function. Establish what works, build the systems and priorities behind it, and begin building the team that can scale with Light.
You would describe yourself as:
- A category and narrative builder who has helped turn something new or complex into a story people understand, remember, and repeat.
- A systems thinker who can build one powerful brand and messaging system while adapting it to very different customers, markets, and use cases.
- Strategic and hands-on, equally comfortable defining what a company should stand for and rolling up your sleeves to get the story into market.
- A marketer with range across positioning and messaging, content, communications, earned media, partnerships, events, and other channels, with strong judgment about where to focus.
- An entrepreneurial builder who thrives in ambiguity, has strong taste and a point of view, and is excited to create a marketing function rather than inherit one.
- An experienced marketing leader with roughly 8-10+ years of experience, ideally having helped shape a category or narrative at an ambitious technology or platform company.