Director, Marketing Communications

Director, Marketing Communications LocationBoston; AustinEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentOperationsCompensation$150K – $200KAbout Cellular IntelligenceCellular Intelligence (CI) is an AI-native TechBio and clinical stage BioTech company building a universal foundation model of cell signaling to understand, predict, and ultimately control cellular behavior, transforming biology from trial-and-error into an engineering discipline. We take a full-stack approach, generating perturbation data at over 1,000x the efficiency of conventional methods, capturing millions of time-resolved treatment combinations per experiment, and training large-scale models that generalize across contexts to enable rational protocol design for regenerative medicine, context-specific drug effect prediction, and systematic disease modeling. Our founding team includes repeat AI entrepreneur Dr. Micha Breakstone (Chorus.ai, acquired for $575M), the Head of the Fundamental AI Group at MIT, and four professors from Harvard Medical School and the University of Washington, including the Chair of Genetics at Harvard, collectively holding five National Academy memberships. Based in Boston, CI has raised over $60M to date from Khosla Ventures, CZI, SciFi VC, and AMD Ventures, and is rapidly scaling its world-class team.Cellular Intelligence’s Core ValuesWe show up - fully accountable, all-in, doing whatever it takes.We act with urgency - swift, decisive, proactive.We support one another - collaborative, helpful, empathetic.Location: Boston, MA or Austin, TXReports to: Chief Marketing OfficerAbout the role:We're looking for a MarCom Director to help run marketing and communications day to day: an opinionated operator who can help turn strategy into a running machine, get the best work out of top-shelf vendors, and drive creative output to the highest standard. You'll keep workstreams and partners moving in harmony, quarterback our biggest moments end to end, and help make the company look and feel bigger and more established than its size and stage at every turn.Part architect and part athlete, the right candidate doesn’t wait to be told what to do. We want someone with strong, experience-grounded instincts and the confidence to act on them; someone who can take a general direction and make it real across every audience and channel without constant oversight.Responsibilities:Run the operating rhythm. Stand up and own the systems everything routes through: tasks, owners, stakeholders, statuses, and deadlines across web, social, media, bus dev / partnering support, events, and internal communications. Anyone in our orbit should be working from the same source of truth.Orchestrate agencies and vendors. Bring multiple PR agencies, creative, web, social, and specialist contractors together as one coordinated team rather than separate workstreams. Run the kickoffs and syncs, hold the lanes, and enable top-shelf partners to do their best work. Own our biggest moments end to end. Drive major announcements (transactions, partnerships, funding, program milestones) and major company events, including the convergence moments where news and events land at once. Build in global coordination and sequencing (US, Denmark, Israel, and others) from the start.Conceive and execute events that punch above our weight. Envision, plan, and run company events, hosted symposiums, convenings, and conference activations that make CI feel bigger than its stage. Own the full arc from concept (goal, audience, format, point of view) through build, run-of-show, and follow-through. Treat every event as a chance to outclass companies several times our size.Hold the creative bar. Review and elevate copy, visuals, and campaign work to a standard that ships without extensive rework or creative thrashing. Know the difference between fine, excellent and exemplary, and push to the latter.Translate the story across every touchpoint. Take our core narrative and make it land across web,...