Marketing Manager
On-site Kearny Full-time Manager Marketing (General)
Mid-level Marketing (General) role at Thea Energy. Kearny · full-time · $85,000–$130,000 base.
SalaryStated by Thea Energy
$85,000 – $130,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
Role brief
Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- You’ll shape social strategy across platforms, including paid placements, and build an engaged audience
- You’ll run the content calendar and assess opportunities across social and digital channels
- You’ll guide video, graphics, and other creative production, including outside vendors
- You’ll protect brand consistency across visuals, voice, messaging, and design standards
- You’ll grow the web presence, measure results, support PR, and make science understandable
What you bring
- At least five years in digital marketing, brand work, and social media, with content managed from idea through delivery
- Strong writing that shifts appropriately between short social content and board-level presentations
- A sharp visual eye, hands-on creative production ability, and experience maintaining a brand identity
- A self-directed, analytical approach to setting goals, measuring results, and improving campaigns
- A bachelor’s degree or higher; Adobe Creative Cloud experience and vendor coordination are relevant strengths
Who this fits
You’ll suit a self-directed marketer who can make scientific and technical ideas accessible to broad audiences. The role is based onsite in Kearny and sits within Finance & Operations. Startup experience and a background in deep tech, energy, space, or science are preferred, while comfort with ambiguity and building from scratch matters.
From the employer
About Thea Energy:
Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other stellarator architectures. Thea Energy is on a mission to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
Position Overview:
Thea Energy is seeking a creative, strategic, and highly motivated Marketing Manager to join our Finance & Operations team. In this role, you will lead the company's brand, social media, and digital communications strategy, translating complex scientific breakthroughs in stellarator physics into compelling, shareable narratives. You will own our content calendar, direct the production of creative visual assets, grow our online web presence, and evaluate key external conference and PR opportunities. The ideal candidate has a strong visual sensibility, a data-driven approach to digital marketing, and a track record of successfully managing brand identity in deep tech, energy, or scientific fields. Thea Energy’s dynamic team is made up of self-motivated individuals with an excitement for solving complex problems.
Key Responsibility Areas:
- Develop and own the Company's social media strategy across all platforms, growing a high-quality, engaged audience, including paid content and ad placements.
- Create and manage a robust content calendar for social and digital media, and assess relevant opportunities.
- Lead the production of videos, graphics, and other assets, including vendor management when necessary.
- Evolve, document, and enforce the Thea Energy brand and brand guidelines, including the Company’s visual identity, voice and tone, messaging, and design standards internally and externally.
- Evaluate conference and external event opportunities for Thea Energy.
- Grow and maintain the company's web presence, ensuring all digital touchpoints reflect the brand.
- Track, analyze, and report on marketing performance metrics.
- Support PR and communications efforts including press releases and company sponsored events.
- Translate complex scientific and technical concepts into compelling, shareable narratives for various audiences.
Ideal Experience & Skillsets:
- 5+ years of experience in digital marketing, brand management, and social media, with a strong portfolio of content you've owned end-to-end.
- Excellent written communication skills and ability to match tone to context across short-form socials to board-ready presentations.
- Strong visual sensibility and comfort directly producing creative assets.
- Experience owning a brand’s identity.
- Proactive, self-directed, solutions-oriented, and data-driven mindset; with an ability to independently set goals, track performance, and iterate based on results.
- Demonstrated ability to make technical or scientific subject matters engaging and accessible to broad audiences.
- Experience in deep tech, energy, space, or scientific fields is strongly preferred.
- Startup experience; comfort with ambiguity, and an ability to build from scratch and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment is strongly preferred.
- Videography, video editing, or podcast production skills is a plus.
- Experience with vendor management.
- Experience across the Adobe Creative Cloud and similar tools; quick to learn new software.
- Photography and photo editing skills is a plus
- Bachelor's degree or greater.
Company Benefits:
- Salary range $85,000-$130,000
- Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)
- Employee equity stock options
- 20 days PTO