Vice President, Communications

Job Description

Vice President, Communications | Xometry

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at Xometry, located in North Bethesda, Maryland. Xometry builds a digital marketplace that connects innovators with manufacturers, powering industries by enabling Fortune 1000 companies to access global manufacturing capacity. This role is crucial for owning how this publicly traded, AI-native manufacturing marketplace is perceived by press, investors, customers, partners, and employees as its story deepens.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid USA (Maryland) – North Bethesda
• Pay: $203000–$240000 yearly
• Team: Reports to the CEO, leads a lean team and agency partners
• Mission: Own how a publicly traded, AI-native manufacturing marketplace is understood by key external and internal audiences.
• Tech Stack: AI-augmented communications workflows, modern media measurement tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• Narrative and Message Discipline: Own the corporate message house, ensuring consistency across all channels and translating complex product and AI developments into accurate, defensible stories.
• CEO and Executive Communications: Serve as the CEO’s primary communications counselor and voice architect, drafting or refining keynotes, bylines, and major announcements for the CEO and other senior leaders.
• Earned Media Strategy: Own proactive media strategy across top-tier business, financial, tech, and trade press, building direct reporter relationships and holding the PR agency accountable for quality coverage outcomes.
• Public-Company Communications: Partner closely with Investor Relations, Finance, and Legal to align narratives across earnings, disclosures, and market-sensitive announcements.
• Issues and Crisis Readiness: Own enterprise reputational risk, maintaining playbooks and escalation paths while leading hands-on response for AI, data, and marketplace-specific risks.
• Team Leadership and Operations: Build the communications team from the ground up, define its structure, hire and develop talent, and select and manage agency partners, while building AI-augmented workflows and reporting business impact.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Executive-level corporate communications or public relations leadership for a CEO in a high-growth technology, marketplace, or public-company environment.
• Experience: 15+ years in corporate communications or public relations, including leading executive communications, managing crisis response, and building lean teams and agencies within a B2B technology company.
• Skills: Hands-on writing and editing expertise for high-stakes content, proven ability to translate complex technical subjects (AI/ML, software, marketplace dynamics) into clear stories, established relationships with top-tier press, and sound judgment with executive presence.
• Bonus: Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or supply chain markets or regulated industries, fluency with AI-enabled communications workflows and modern media measurement tools, and experience working across distributed, global teams.