Creative Director (Hybrid Optional)

Pyka is looking for a Creative Director to support the development of its autonomous electric aircraft customer sales campaigns and public appearance. You'll manage the development, design and preparation of marketing materials as well as establishing the company’s Media and PR strategy.

You will participate in a wide variety of customer marketing campaigns for Pyka’s existing and in-development products globally. You will lead the creative design efforts for marketing materials, in close coordination with Pyka’s Commercial and Engineering teams. In parallel, you will develop the company’s Media (Social and Industry) strategy, Public Relations approach and coordinate Pyka’s external video and graphics content providers. 

This is a role with a huge amount of scope and possibility. The ideal candidate is hands-on and highly creative -- ready to jump in a plane or the bed of a pickup truck to capture the perfect shot to tell our story. Your work will take you to a range of interesting locations from Banana plantations in Costa Rica to remote islands in the Caribbean.

About Pyka

Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of fast, environmentally friendly, and accessible transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation.

To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building useful, game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. 

Today, we supply our aircraft to agricultural service providers and farmers as an autonomous tool that makes aerial crop protection safer, more targeted and less harmful to surrounding environments. Our vehicles are highly economical to operate and easy to deploy. What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one-step closer each day.

We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes.

We foster a welcoming community within our company that promotes experimentation, asking questions, making simple solutions to complex problems, and expressing different views and opinions. We are a transparent company both internally and externally and do not believe in operating in “stealth mode.” Lastly, we don’t work 60 hour weeks, and don’t expect you to either. In this role you will have a great deal of responsibility, earn a competitive salary and benefits, and contribute to the development of groundbreaking technology.

Responsibilities

• Develop Pyka’s Public Relations strategy

  • Website design, redesign and expansion

  • Defining and developing Pyka’s Social Media footprint

  • Broadening Pyka’s visibility in relevant Industry media (aviation, agriculture, cargo)

  • Coordinating press contacts, news releases and interviews, together with Pyka’s senior leadership team

• Ability to create video and graphics content as well as coordinate creation with Pyka’s external suppliers

• Design and create marketing materials for commercial sales campaigns, trade shows, investor pitches, recruiting, etc.

• In close coordination with the Commercial and Engineering teams, refine materials throughout campaign progression to tailor to customer requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in creative content marketing in a corporate, marketing or brand-building capacity

• Ability to creatively design presentations, marketing materials and content from scratch, on various software platforms

• Videography, photography, and video editing skills a major plus

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience writing press releases a plus

• Relevant experience in leveraging social and industry media (paid and/or organic)

• Wide-ranging familiarity and deep personal engagement in major social platforms

• Solid proficiency in Wordpress, G-Suite, MS Office and social media platforms

• Basic appreciation of engineering processes, ideally coupled with a passion for aviation

• BS / BA or equivalent

Company Perks

• Competitive salary and equity

• Employer-sponsored health, dental and vision insurance, FSA with employer matching, and 401(k)

• Paid holidays and unlimited PTO

• Free catered lunch and plenty of snacks

Export Control Requirements

This position requires access to technology, software and other information that is subject to governmental access control restrictions, due to export controls.  Employment in this position is conditioned on the continued availability of government authorization to authorize release of such items, to the extent required, including without limitation an export license, or other documentation required to establish authorization to receive access to such items. 

Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, and/or may modify job responsibilities, compensation, benefits, and/or access to Company facilities and information systems, as Company deems appropriate, in order to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions.