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# Strategic Communications Manager at Antora Energy

- **Company:** Antora Energy
- **Location:** San Jose, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/antora/jobs/6220764004

## Job description

Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.

We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.

Position Summary

Antora is hiring a Strategic Communications Manager to tell our story clearly and persuasively. This role sits at the intersection of communications, commercial, and policy (it's not a PR or social-media-first role). You'll shape how customers, communities, and policymakers understand what Antora does and why it matters. That means learning the substance fast, judging what each audience needs to hear, and making the decks, one-pagers, and other content that deliver it.

You might come from a communications background, or you might have experience in consulting, policy, campaigns, marketing, or something else entirely. Either way, you excel at making complicated things clear, and you're eager to jump in wherever the company needs help: a community meeting, a conference, or a cross-functional project. You'll use AI as a partner to produce better content faster and take on more than one person normally could. You'll also own the tools and workflows that keep our content accurate and make it easier for the rest of the company to tell our story.

Roles & Responsibilities

- Build and adapt Antora's decks, one-pagers, and other materials for each audience and use case, from a quick pass on an existing deck to new materials for a market we haven't pitched before.
- Produce and edit written content, talking points, posts, thought leadership, videos, and graphics that tell Antora's story at the right depth for each use case, from making a big-picture pitch to explaining a nuance in energy market dynamics.
- Support cross-functional priorities across the company, bringing sharp judgment and polished materials to high-stakes events, new partnerships, and strategic projects.
- Support the policy and commercial teams on community engagement, policy initiatives, and demonstrating Antora's value to utilities and grid operators.
- Drive execution of announcements and executive communications, including launch plans, website updates, partner coordination, speaker prep, and executive social media.
- Run and expand our AI-assisted communications workflows, help teammates use AI to produce their own communications, and maintain the single source of truth for the facts those workflows depend on.

## Key Qualifications

- 3+ years in communications, marketing, consulting, policy, campaigns, or a related role, with a track record of making complicated things clear. We care more about what you've built and how fast you learn than how many years of experience you have.
- Experience building content from scratch and owning it end to end, across formats and for different audiences.
- Strong writing and editing skills, paired with judgment on what to surface and what to leave behind.
- Appetite to take on whatever the company needs, from strategic priorities to the details that make them work, and the ability to move fast across many projects and shifting priorities.
- Comfort with basic design, including the ability to build a clean deck or one-pager and direct a designer when needed.
- Deep use of AI tools, including workflows you've built, and a habit of pushing what they can do.
- Experience getting up to speed on new subjects quickly and working directly with subject matter experts to get the details right.
- Genuine interest in Antora's mission and a collaborative, low-ego approach.

Additional Qualifications Desired

- Strong understanding of the energy sector, energy technology, and energy markets.
- Experience managing corporate or executive social media channels.
- Experience with graphic design or video production.
- Exposure to policy, political, or community engagement work.

Work Location:  Hybrid preferred - San Jose, CA

Salary Range:  $113,000 USD - $135,000 USD

Salary Basis:  Annual

Please note that the salary range listed above reflects Antora Energy's estimated pay for this position. The actual salary offered will be within the posted range and determined based on several factors including but not limited to a candidate's experiences, credentials and expertise, as they pertain to the position's requirements.

In addition to a competitive base salary, Antora Energy’s Total Rewards program includes equity compensation in the form of stock options, a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance, a 401K plan with employer contributions, flexible spending accounts, and an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.

https://diversityjobs.com/employer/top-diversity-employers?utm_campaign=TopEmployer&utm_medium=badge  When it comes to stopping climate change, we need everyone. We believe that having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences strengthens all of us, and we strive to create an environment where every one of us is empowered to create meaningful change.

## About Antora Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Antora Energy manufactures and deploys modular thermal batteries that convert low-cost, intermittent clean electricity into reliable, always-on heat and power for global industrial facilities and data centers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Justin Briggs, Andrew Ponec, David Bierman

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable Energy Power Generation, Thermal Energy Storage, Industrial Decarbonization
- **Target customers**: Large-scale industrial energy users (biofuels, refining, pulp & paper, steel & iron, chemicals, mining, concrete & lime, food & beverage) and data center operators (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We are here to power global industry with clean energy.” The company aims to make cheap, clean energy the standard that powers global industry.

## Products & Services
- **Thermal Battery System**: A modular, factory-built energy storage system that uses solid carbon (one of the safest, most stable materials on earth) to store surplus clean electricity as heat. It delivers always-on heat and power for industrial operations, scales from megawatts to gigawatts, and is designed for low cost, rapid deployment, and massive scale.
- **Project Big Stone**: One of the largest battery storage systems in the world, deployed in under 12 months for POET, the world’s largest biofuels producer. It delivers affordable, reliable energy and serves as a proof-of-concept for the company’s giga-scale deployment model.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$220.0M** across 10 rounds, including a $150M Series B led by Decarbonization Partners (Feb 2024). Annual revenue estimated at **$7.7M**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Decarbonization Partners, National Science Foundation, California Energy Commission. Key partner: POET (biofuels).
- **Growth Signals**: 197 employees (+36.6% YoY), 31,700 LinkedIn followers (+42.9% YoY), active job postings up 140% YoY. The company is building gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries annually at its U.S. factory and has a presence in Spain.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Technology**: Uses solid carbon thermal storage—a simple, safe, and low-cost material—to provide both heat and power, differentiating from chemical battery or molten salt solutions.
- **Modular & Factory-Built**: Modules are manufactured in a U.S. factory, enabling rapid deployment, seamless integration, and operational redundancy at any scale.
- **Speed to Market**: Project Big Stone advanced from an empty lot to energy delivery in under 12 months, demonstrating a fast deployment model that can be replicated globally.
- **Multi-day Storage**: Provides reliable energy for industrial operations where downtime is not an option, solving the intermittency problem of renewables.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale and Replicate**: Replicating the Project Big Stone model at factories and data centers across the U.S. and globally.
- **Giga-scale Manufacturing**: Expanding factory capacity to produce gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries each year, with a focus on American manufacturing.
- **Market Expansion**: Targeting hard-to-abate industrial sectors (steel, cement, chemicals) and data centers, while expanding internationally (e.g., Spain).
- **Cost Leadership**: Driving down costs to make cheap, clean energy the standard for global industry.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: The company’s north star is to power global industry with clean energy, offering employees a chance to work on one of the most urgent climate challenges.
- **Culture**: Values include “Build with Humility & Openness,” “Team & Mission First,” and “Joy & Laughter Connect Us.” The company emphasizes kindness, collaboration, and learning from setbacks.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with “Home Week” each quarter to bring in-person and remote team members together. Offices in San Jose, CA; Big Stone City, SD; and remote roles in the U.S.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, stock options, 401k match, 16 weeks paid parental leave, comprehensive medical/vision/dental, HSA with employer contribution, subsidized backup childcare/senior care/petcare, mental health support, on-site gym, healthy snacks, and volunteer time off.
- **Engineering & Impact**: Teams work on cutting-edge thermal storage, manufacturing, and field engineering. The company is growing fast (36% headcount growth) and offers the chance to shape a new industry.

## Sources
1. [antora.com](https://www.antora.com/)
2. [antora.com/company](https://www.antora.com/company)
3. [antora.com/careers](https://www.antora.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/antora-energy](https://www.linkedin.com/company/antora-energy)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/antora-energy](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/antora-energy)

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