Head of Communications

**We see the potential inside everything and everyone. Starting with you.**:
Orbem uses AI to industrialize MRI, delivering non-invasive insight into everything from fruits to eggs to the human body. We are transforming what is becoming the world’s largest biological dataset into actionable intelligence to reduce waste, increase quality, and accelerate the shift toward a more sustainable and healthier future.

Headquartered and founded in Munich, Germany, with an office now in Houston, Texas, our world-class team is scaling inside-out technology to transform how humanity sees and understands biological matter.

Help us see what’s possible. Join us.

**Head of Communications and Brand (f/m/d)**:
**Start Date**: As soon as possible

**Yearly Salary**: €100,000 - €110,000 (fixed range, annual gross)

**ESOPs**: €80,000- €120,000

**Benefits**: Up to €5,000 annually

**Work Model**: Full-Time, Hybrid (Munich, Germany)

**Your Role**:
As **Head of Communications and Brand**you lead our external and internal messaging, shape our corporate narrative, and amplify our brand presence. This strategic role is critical in telling our story, defining our voice, and building trust with all our stakeholders, including customers, employees, partners, and the media. You will be the person responsible for developing and executing a holistic strategy that aligns our communications with our business goals.

**Your Day-to-Day**:
**Communications and Public Relations**
- Develop and lead internal and external communications strategy
- Translate complex technology and business topics into compelling content for press releases, articles, keynotes, and digital channels
- Oversee media relations, acting as primary spokesperson and managing relationships with journalists and industry analysts
- Create content for press releases, corporate announcements, speeches, and key external presentations

**Brand Strategy & Management**
- Define, protect, and evolve brand identity, voice, and positioning across all channels
- Ensure brand consistency through guidelines and cross-functional work with product, marketing, and sales
- Lead development of a content system that drives Orbem's narrative across web, social, PR, and internal channels
- Oversee brand-building initiatives including thought leadership and campaigns
- Monitor brand health metrics and communications effectiveness

**Internal Communications and Executive Support**
- Develop internal communications strategy that keeps the team informed, engaged, and aligned
- Partner with executive leadership on public appearances, announcements, and investor relations
- Manage all-hands meetings and internal forums to foster transparency

**Team Leadership**
- Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of communications and brand specialists
- Manage external PR and design agencies
- Own communications budget

**Culture & Values**
- Lead by example, promoting Orbem's values through actions and decisions
- Contribute to a positive, inclusive environment where people do their best work

**Your Experience and Skills**:

- 5+ years experience in Communications, Brand, or Content roles within fast-growing, technology-driven environments.
- Experience leading a team (direct reports, not just dotted-line).
- Track record developing and executing successful brand and communication strategies.
- Exceptional content skills: you can craft compelling narratives and adapt them into impactful content across formats (press releases, thought leadership, website, social media, investor decks, internal storytelling).
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts clearly and concisely.

**Fit to Our Values**:

- **We Own Every Challenge**: we enjoy complexity and thrive under uncertainty.
- **We Strive for Better**: we seize any opportunity for growth and challenge the status quo. We are constantly learning and improving.
- **We Imagine New Frontiers**: we think beyond “doable” and “reasonable”. We design a sustainable and healthy future together.

**What Makes You Stand Out**:

- **Content mastery**: You turn complex technology and business strategy into clear, compelling content: press releases, investor decks, website copy, social, long-form thought leadership. You create content, not just oversee it.
- **Creative execution**: Strong visual eye. You think about distribution, not just production.
- **Market awareness**: You understand the German market and can communicate to international audiences (US experience is a plus).
- **Strategic communications exposure**: You've supported comms around corporate milestones like fundraising, M&A, or expansion.
- **Growth mindset**: Ready to step up, not coast. You want to grow with a company.
- **AI fluency**: You use AI tools effectively to enhance your work.

**What We Offer**:
**International Environment**:

- Join a team with 40+ nationalities across 5 continents, all driven by a shared purpose: shedding light on the