Marketing Lead

Our industry faces many unsolved challenges on its way to building general-purpose robots. Our customers are varied in their research directions and product applications. XDOF is their first call for all things data and infrastructure, and you’d have a unique opportunity to drive marketing for all the different ways we serve them. In one instance, you may be driving a product launch for an upcoming service that only XDOF can do. In another, you may be owning a technical report in partnership with our academic collaborators. No matter the project, your work is informed by taste, sophistication and ambition - the XDOF way.

What you'll do

* Own marketing end to end: messaging, positioning, content, website, announcements, thought leadership, and the ongoing narrative about XDOF and the robotics industry. Turn a technical, nuanced business into a story that lands with very different audiences.

* Run our events and field presence: plan and execute XDOF's presence at industry conferences and curated gatherings of our own.

* Reach our key audiences deliberately: customers, consortium and data partners, and prospective hires. Build a distinct message and engagement strategy for each while keeping one coherent XDOF narrative.

* Build the foundation: set up the tools, cadences, and early processes a growing marketing function will need, and lay the groundwork for the team that follows.

What we're looking for

* Strong comms background. You write clearly and persuasively, you can find the through-line in a complex story, and you've owned messaging and content for a company or brand before.

* Comfort with technical and B2B subject matter. You can get fluent fast in robotics and AI, and translate between deeply technical people and the outside world.

* Real events experience. You've planned and run events, managed the logistics without drama, and know how to turn a conference or a dinner into pipeline and relationships.

* A head for strategy. You don't just execute briefs; you have opinions about positioning, audience, and timing, and you can make the case for them. This is the differentiator we care about most.

* Range across audiences. You can shift register between a frontier AI lab, a large industrial partner, and a candidate without losing the thread.

* A builder's temperament. Self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and energized by being early. You'd rather define the function than inherit one.

Nice to have

* Experience in AI, robotics, deep tech, data, or enterprise/B2B marketing.

* Startup or early-stage experience, especially as a first or early marketing hire.

* An existing network in the AI or robotics ecosystem.

* Familiarity with bringing a genuinely new offering to market.

Why XDOF

* Shape an industry. The work we do literally defines standards in robotics and enables new possibilities.

* Real ownership. First marketing hire, direct line to the founders, and the mandate to build marketing your way.

* A seat at the center. XDOF sits between the frontier labs and the physical world. You'll have a rare vantage point on the future of physical AI before anyone else does.

XDOF is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and are committed to building a team that reflects a range of perspectives and experiences.