Director of Strategic Communications

Standard Nuclear is fueling America’s nuclear renaissance at industrial scale. Our mission is to deliver the essential building blocks of nuclear power—enabling cost-effective, safe, and secure energy for the world. The Director of Strategic Communications is responsible for leading Standard Nuclear’s external communications strategy, including company positioning, executive messaging, and market-facing materials. This role owns the development of a clear, consistent narrative that reflects the company’s progress, strategy, milestones, and long-term value proposition. This is primarily a communications role. The Director will partner closely with executive leadership to shape how the company is represented to investors, partners, customers, media, and other external stakeholders. The role requires exceptional writing, strong business judgment, and the ability to translate complex company developments into credible, polished, and strategically useful communications. The ideal candidate has experience supporting communications in high-growth, public company, investor-facing, or complex business environments where messaging quality, accuracy, timing, and stakeholder confidence matter.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Communications & Company Narrative

Define and maintain Standard Nuclear’s external narrative, ensuring alignment with company strategy, milestones, and business priorities

Translate technical, operational, financial, and commercial progress into clear, credible messaging for external audiences

Ensure consistency of messaging across investor materials, public-facing content, executive communications, and company updates

Continuously refine positioning based on company progress, stakeholder feedback, market conditions, and leadership priorities

Help ensure communications are accurate, professional, and aligned with the company’s long-term strategy

Investor & Market Communications

Lead development of investor-facing materials, including pitch decks, company updates, strategic narratives, and supporting communications

Partner with executive leadership and finance to support fundraising, investor engagement, and external stakeholder communications

Prepare leadership for investor meetings, presentations, conferences, and other external engagements

Support development of messaging around company milestones, financing activity, strategic partnerships, and business progress

Bring public company, capital markets, or investor communications discipline to the company’s external materials and messaging process

Executive Communications

Work closely with the CEO, CFO, and executive leadership team to shape messaging, positioning, and communication priorities

Draft, edit, and refine executive presentations, talking points, company updates, speeches, board‑facing materials, and other high‑visibility communications

Ensure executive communications are clear, consistent, concise, and appropriate for the audience

Help leadership communicate company strategy and progress in a way that is credible, polished, and easy to understand

Manage sensitive and high‑visibility communications with strong discretion and judgment

Cross‑Functional Partnership

Partner with finance, engineering, operations, commercial, legal, and other teams to ensure communications are accurate and aligned with current company realities

Gather information from technical and business teams and convert it into clear external messaging

Coordinate review of high‑impact communications with appropriate internal stakeholders

Serve as a central point of coordination for external messaging and communications materials

Help bridge technical, financial, and business content so external audiences receive a coherent company story

Communications Infrastructure

Build scalable communications processes, tools, templates, and review workflows as the company grows

Establish standards for messaging, content development, presentation quality, and external communications review

Maintain core company messaging, approved language, executive materials, and investor communication assets

Evaluate and manage external communications partners, consultants, or agencies as needed

Support development of a broader communications function over time

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Business, Finance, English, Journalism, Marketing, or a related field

8–12+ years of experience in strategic communications, corporate communications, investor relations, executive communications, financial communications, consulting, or a related field

Experience in a public company, pre‑IPO company, investor‑facing environment, capital markets setting, or high‑growth business strongly preferred

Proven experience developing executive‑level messaging, investor materials, company narratives, presentations, or external communications

Strong understanding of business strategy, financial concepts, investor expectations, and market positioning

Exceptional writing, editing, storytelling, and presentation development skills

Ability to translate complex business, technical, operational, and financial topics into clear and credible messaging

Strong judgement and ability to manage sensitive, confidential, or high‑visibility communications

Experience working directly with executive leadership

Experience in energy, manufacturing, industrial technology, aerospace, defense, infrastructure, or other complex sectors is a plus

Nuclear industry experience is not required

BENEFITS

Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account

Disability and Life Insurance

401K Plan

Paid Time Off, Holidays

WORK ENVIRONMENT
This role is based in Greenwich, CT and involves close collaboration with executive leadership, finance, engineering, and operations teams. The position requires ownership of high‑impact external communications, coordination across multiple stakeholders, and participation in investor‑facing activities. Occasional travel may be required for meetings and events. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The estimated starting base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $210,000 annually , less applicable withholdings and deductions. The actual salary offered may vary based on relevant factors as determined in the Company’s discretion, including experience, qualifications, skill set, availability of qualified candidates, geographic location, certifications held, and other job‑related factors.

Standard Nuclear embraces equal opportunity and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

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