Head of Communications in Remote at Simbe Robotics

1. Narrative & Messaging

Ensure consistency, quality, and strategic alignment across every public-facing asset.

• Partner with the SVP of Market to define key storylines and messaging architecture that support Simbe’s business goals, GTM strategy, and corporate narrative.

• Serve as editor-in-chief across corporate and executive communications, ensuring every launch, campaign, announcement, research report, and asset reinforces a consistent company narrative.

• Identify and develop new narrative opportunities based on market trends, customer success, competitive dynamics, and emerging technologies, including proactive workforce narratives that elevate retail work.

• With crossfunctional partners, translate Simbe’s competitive positioning and category strategy into compelling external narratives across communications programs.

2. Executive Communications

Build executive platforms that reinforce Simbe’s market leadership.

• Develop executive communications strategies, messaging, and platforms for company executives, Strategic Advisory Board members, Board members, partners, and customer executives.

• Own the company thought leadership content calendar, partnering closely with Product Marketing to distill the editorial calendar into owned and earned thought leadership opportunities.

• Partner with the SVP of Market, PR agency, and key executives to maximize executive visibility through speaking engagements, media interviews, podcasts, contributed content, social media, and cross-channel amplification.

3. Corporate Communications

Lead communications programs that strengthen reputation and accelerate commercial growth.

• Own annual and quarterly communications planning while managing Simbe’s PR agency to ensure programs align with business priorities and GTM objectives.

• Lead integrated communications program for company milestones, partnering across the business to maximize impact via earned, owned, executive, customer, investor, advisor, and partner communications.

• Guide communications priorities with the PR agency to increase Simbe’s visibility across media, analysts, awards, conferences, and executive platforms.

• Expand Simbe’s analyst relations program and strengthen relationships with leading industry analysts.

• Support executive media preparation, messaging, and crisis communications as needed.

4. Editorial & Content Strategy

Build an editorial engine that compounds Simbe’s influence across every channel.

• Own the integrated editorial calendar across earned, owned, executive, and customer communications.

• Lead Simbe’s social strategy and customer storytelling program, partnering across Customer Success, Strategy & Scaling, Sales, Product Marketing, Design, and client communications teams.

• Partner across marketing to package every major announcement into a reusable communications toolkit that equips commercial and executive teams to activate the stories across earned, owned, and customer-facing channels.

• Maintain editorial excellence and consistency across all external communications.

5. Industry Influence

Expand Simbe’s influence across retail, technology, and public policy ecosystems.

• Lead shopper education, influencer engagement, and the Robot Ambassador Program while expanding relationships with retailers, partners, industry associations, and standards organizations to strengthen Simbe’s market leadership.

• Manage resourcing for Simbe’s public affairs program, partnering with industry and policy organizations to raise Simbe’s visibility on Capitol Hill and across the US.

• Support initiatives that reinforce Simbe’s reputation as the category leader shaping the future of intelligent retail.

Experience

• 10+ years leading corporate communications, executive communications, PR, or content strategy with progressively increasing responsibility.

• Experience building communications programs at a high-growth B2B technology company, preferably in enterprise software, AI, robotics, or a related industry.

• Proven success partnering with executive teams to shape company narratives, executive platforms, product launches, customer announcements, and thought leadership.

• Experience managing PR agencies, analyst relations, media relationships, and cross-functional communications programs.

• Demonstrated business acumen and curiosity, with the ability to quickly understand complex technologies and translate them into compelling market narratives.

Capabilities

• Exceptional writer, editor, and storyteller with the ability to simplify complex technologies for diverse audiences.

• Strong editorial judgment and strategic thinking, connecting individual communications into a cohesive narrative that advances business objectives.

• Executive presence with experience advising senior leaders on messaging, media, presentations, and public speaking.

• Highly organized and collaborative leader who excels at influencing across functions, managing competing priorities, and driving complex initiatives from strategy through execution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience helping define or scale an emerging technology category.

• Existing relationships with business, retail, and technology media, as well as leading industry analysts.

• Experience supporting enterprise customer communications, public affairs, and executive communications during periods of rapid growth.

• Familiarity with retail, AI, robotics, supply chain, or enterprise software.

• Simbe is consistently recognized as the category leader in Physical AI and Store Intelligence.

• Company announcements generate inbound retailer interest and sustained engagement across media, customers, executives, investors, partners, and employees

• Simbe executives become trusted voices shaping conversations about the future of retail and AI.

• Communications programs measurably contribute to commercial growth, recruiting, and brand reputation.

• Marketing, Commercial, and Executive teams rely on Communications as a strategic partner that elevates every major initiative.