Communications Director

About the Position

Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress. We are transforming the physical world by developing Physical AI-real-world robots for industries like food, mining, and transport. Our systems are designed to understand, predict, and control the real world with precision, making complex physical operations more reliable, scalable, and productive.

We are seeking a Communications Director to lead Atoms' public narrative across our Food, Mining, and Transport businesses. This role will build a coherent story for a high-growth company operating in four very different industries.

Responsibilities

• Own the company-wide moment calendar: Sequence partnership announcements, fundraises, key hires, and first-site or product launches to compound into a coherent story.
• Build and run the vertical media network: Recruit and manage boutique agencies and individual operators embedded in each industry's press ecosystem.
• Lead new-media strategy for Atoms leadership: Identify and secure placements with top-tier and niche podcasts/shows/events relevant to each vertical's audience.
• Set channel and tier strategy: Operate the existing architecture-newsroom as system of record, blog/Perspectives for thesis-level narrative, company LinkedIn for amplification.
• Drive customer-forward storytelling: Shift the default from Atoms talking about its customers to structuring press moments where customers speak directly about their own growth.
• Advise leadership directly: On the timing, framing, and risk of every major public moment across a business where the wrong call carries real regulatory and partnership consequences.
• Internal Communications: Own how Atoms communicates with its own people across four distinct businesses-major news, partnerships, hires, and launches from inside the company first.
• Develop a crisis management playbook: Map realistic risk scenarios across each vertical and have a response strategy ready for each.

Requirements

• 10+ years in communications, including direct experience building a comms function from zero at a high-growth company in a regulated or partnership-dependent industry.
• A track record of reporting directly into leadership as a strategic advisor, not just an executor of a plan set by someone else.
• Range across the full spectrum of comms work-product launches, funding announcements, executive comms, crisis response, internal comms-rather than depth in a single lane.
• Experience managing a portfolio of boutique agency relationships in parallel, in place of one centralized firm of record.
• The judgment to hold several distinct narratives at once-food delivery, mining, robotics-without collapsing them into one generic voice.
• Sound instincts for substance-forward, low-combativeness media strategy, with an understanding of the asymmetric downside of an adversarial press strategy for a business built on partnerships and regulatory relationships.
• Existing relationships in one or more of: restaurant tech, industrial/mining press, robotics and deep tech, or business/finance trade media.
• Experience building new-media placement strategy for founders or executives.

We Offer

• Base salary range: $170,000 - $215,000 per year.
• Benefits Summary (USA Full-Time Exempt Employees):
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).
  • Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).
  • Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
  • Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.
  • Pet insurance discount.
  • 401(k).
  • Health Savings Account (HSA).
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter).
  • Time Off policies.

About the Company

At Atoms, you’ll work on one of the defining challenges of our time-bringing automation into the physical world to drive real, lasting impact. We exist to uncover valuable unknown truths and turn them into progress, which means constantly pushing beyond what’s known and building what doesn’t yet exist. The work is ambitious and often challenging, but it’s grounded in a shared sense of purpose and a team committed to seeing it through together. Our work only matters if it serves others, and we know that meaningful progress depends on the trust of the people we serve and the strength of our team-so we invest in both, creating an environment where you can do your best work and grow.

What else you need to know

This role is based in our San Francisco office. Atoms is a company driven by invention and continuous change-we are constantly reimagining our industries, building new products, and refining how we operate. We do our best work together. That’s why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week.

Ready to join us as we serve those who serve others?

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