Head of Communications, Ambercycle

$110-160k

Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles

Office located in West Adams, Los Angeles

Ambercycle

Circular economy for textiles

Open for applications

Ambercycle

Circular economy for textiles

21-100 employees

B2BSustainabilityFashionScience

Open for applications

$110-160k

Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles

Office located in West Adams, Los Angeles

21-100 employees

B2BSustainabilityFashionScience

Company mission

To convert end-of-life textile into new yarns and end 'waste' in fashion.

Role

Who you are

  • The candidate must be able to craft compelling narratives that come to life across all platforms and must have experience pitching and placing stories with financial and business media
  • This candidate is adept at synthesizing information, especially when distilling technical concepts to craft compelling stories that many audiences can understand
  • They’ll be comfortable with ambiguity, and fluidity and will enjoy diving into the unknown. A self-starter is a must for this role
  • Bachelor's degree in communications or other relevant field
  • 5+ years of experience in communications, including significant media relations experience, and corporate communications

Desirable

  • Synthesizes information from business units or clients to develop and execute successful communication strategies
  • Proven experience as a copywriter, from a creative agency background or in-house
  • Creative writing experience across multiple mediums, especially social media and digital
  • Strong attention to detail and a proven ability to manage multiple work streams simultaneously
  • Impeccable grammar and spelling with strong editing and proofreading skills
  • Demonstrated ability to work towards tight timelines
  • Extremely strong interpersonal, written communication, influencing and organizational skills
  • Passion for emerging technology, sustainability, circularity, and fashion

What the job involves

  • This person will help create and execute a world-class internal and external communications program for a rapidly growing materials science company.
  • This candidate will help shape the corporate brand narrative, differentiate the company within the industry, assist in building and executing thought-leadership campaigns for select executives, and help craft engaging internal communications platforms to drive employee pride
  • This role will help support the brand team, working on projects like building communications strategies that drive awareness of our company as a leader in the circularity space
  • It will include managing communications across web and social, and effectively writing press releases
  • Manage global external communications on behalf of Ambercycle, including media relations, speaking engagements, advertising, social media, events, and time-sensitive news stories
  • Partner with business leaders to understand their strategic objectives and create communications plans that align with and help deliver on these objectives
  • Execute communication plans, securing high-impact coverage in relevant media outlets, developing messaging across communication platforms, and initiating other communications and/or public relations initiatives
  • Create and manage profiles of key business leaders, including agents, executives, and company management
  • Develop and foster relationships with key reporters to help achieve strategic objectives of clients and the business
  • Support executive communications programs including media training, talking points, and thought-leader conference strategy
  • Support media relations, including writing and disseminating press releases, pitching stories to reporters, drafting talking points and message frameworks, crafting statements, and arranging interviews with Ambercycle spokespersons
  • Prepare and edit press materials, newsletters, sizzles, and correlated photography
  • Track and analyze data gathered from media outreach to optimize interaction with target audiences and expand reach
  • Maintain media lists and track copywriting and content production
  • Produce persuasive writing that drives education or action for target audiences
  • Review, edit, proofread, and oversee the content produced by Ambercycle
  • Present creative ideas and copy to a large cross-functional team
  • Ensure that initiatives are fully executed on time and carried out successfully across multiple channels

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Fast fashion leads to an enormous amount of waste. It isn’t sustainable, and there’s been a huge cultural push towards a different model in recent years. Ambercycle rides that momentum, providing a circular economy for textiles that cuts out the industry’s waste.

It provides new ‘molecular regeneration’ technology, which allows for fibers to be completely broken down, separated from hardware, dyes, and other components, and reconstituted into premium ‘cycora’ fabrics. Waste is vastly cut down, and turned into new products, creating revenue as well as helping the planet.

While the company is operating in a small corner of the market, it envisions building large-scale recycling factories over the next 10-15 years, creating a systemic change in the industry, Aiming to incentivize the collection of garments, ensuring that materials circulate within the supply chain rather than exiting it with the goal of establishing a structure where polyester remains within the supply chain, contributing to a sustainable and circular approach that aligns with environmental conservation efforts.

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Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Nov 2023

$5m

EARLY VC

Jan 2022

$21.6m

SERIES A

Total funding: $28.2m

Company HQ

Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA

Founders

Graduated fgrom the University of Californina, Davis and has served as the CTO of Ambercycle for over 8 years now.

Graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and has served as the CEO of Ambercycle for over 8 years now.

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