Head of Marketing

Pluralis Research is building Protocol Learning: decentralised, multi-participant training of large models. We’re hiring a Head of Marketing to define our narrative, grow our brand, and build an engaged technical community around our research, products, and mission.

This is a pure 0 → 1 opportunity — You’ll own story, brand, channels, and community. You’re fluent in startup pace, can translate deep tech into crisp narratives, and know how to turn attention into trust, and trust into momentum.

• Narrative & Story: Craft a clear storyline for Protocol Learning, founders, roadmap, and proof points. Maintain a living messaging house and editorial calendar.

• Brand & Design Quality Bar: Set and enforce brand system, design standards, and asset quality across web, social, decks, papers, and demos.

• PR & Earned: Run a focused PR engine: long-lead narratives, founder profiles, product moments, data stories. Blend traditional PR with newer channels (podcasts, independent tech media, creator newsletters, X).

• Community: Grow and steward a technical community (researchers, engineers, hobbyists). Operate Discord/X/GitHub/YouTube/events with clear rituals and contributor paths.

• Founders’ Platform: Ghostwrite and coach for talks, posts, and interviews. Package internal work into external-ready stories.

• Launches & Moments: Orchestrate announcements for papers, releases, milestones. Build press kits, microsites, and demo scripts.

• Measurement: Define KPIs and run a lightweight reporting cadence.

• Team & Vendors: Stand up a small in-house pod and a network of specialist contractors.

• A sharp, repeatable narrative that shows up consistently across channels.

• Visible lift in qualified inbound (candidates, collaborators, users).

• Active, civil community with clear participation loops.

• 3–5 tier-1 earned hits tied to real news, not vanity.

• Founder channels with steady growth and high-signal engagement.

• A durable brand system and asset library teams actually use.

• 7+ years across brand, comms, or product marketing in startups or frontier tech.

• Proven storytelling and editorial instincts: can turn complex research into simple, compelling arcs.

• Brand building: systems, aesthetics, and taste.

• PR chops: you can craft the story, place it, and ensure it ladders to goals.

• Community sensibility with technical audiences; you understand what researchers and tinkerers value.

• Operator mindset: planning, execution, and measurement without heavy process.

• Excellent writing: strong visual literacy.

• Past role marketing deep-tech, infra, crypto, or OSS to technical audiences.

• Grown or been part of a marketing team going from 0 → 1

• Experience spinning up podcasts, newsletters, or event series.

• You've built and grown either a personal, or company following on X

• We only hire in Australia and the United States. Visa sponsorship is limited to these countries.

• Applicants must have professional-level English proficiency (written and spoken).

• Pluralis is a remote team across Australia and the US. You’ll need to be comfortable working across timezones and collaborating with a diverse, distributed group.

• Recruiters: we aren’t looking for agency support at this time. We’ll reach out if we need help.

Backed by Union Square Ventures and other tier-1 investors, we’re a world-class, deeply technical team of ML researchers. Pluralis is unapologetically ideological. We view the world as a better place if we are able to implement what we are attempting, and Protocol Learning as the only plausible approach to preventing a handful of massive corporations monopolising model development, access and release, and achieving massive economic capture.

If this resonates, please apply.