Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
This is an important and high-impact role, joining as the second hire in Arondite's Communications, Marketing and Public Affairs function. You will combine strategic counsel with hands-on delivery across ministerial and government engagement, external content generation and strategic campaign planning. As a Public Affairs & Communications Strategist, you will operate across a range of work streams with equal rigour, moving fluidly between briefing work one week and media or content work the next. The mix will shift constantly, and that is by design; what stays constant is the standard you bring to each strand, without needing to be told which one takes priority that week.

As our growth accelerates, we want someone who actively looks for where they can have the most impact and defines the scope of their role to make that impact. Your responsibilities will include:
- Writing materials that drive policy engagement such as fact sheets, briefing notes, parliamentary submissions and consultation responses.
- Drafting external communications content including op-eds, speeches, stakeholder letters and event materials, and contributing to messaging and narrative development.
- Contributing to strategic multi-stakeholder forward planning.
- Ensuring the public affairs and communications function aligns with evolving business needs weekly and monthly, while maintaining focus on long-term strategic priorities.
- Coordinating day-to-day with Arondite's retained government affairs agency.
- Building and maintaining relationships with ministerial offices, special advisers, civil servants and parliamentary stakeholders.
- Working with engineers and product teams to develop fluency in explaining Arondite's capabilities credibly to government and public audiences.
- Supporting media relations, thought leadership and physical event activity as required.
- Managing multiple workstreams, approvals with customer stakeholders, tracking deadlines and ensuring nothing falls through the gaps.

About Arondite: Arondite enables organisations to wield autonomy, data and AI at scale. We equip operators with foundational software to orchestrate their mix of platforms and capabilities, enabling faster mission-critical decisions than adversaries. Our technology is designed for deployment in the world’s most austere environments and is relied upon by the world’s most demanding operators. We deploy alongside them, bringing technical expertise wherever needed.

You will join Arondite at a pivotal moment in the company’s journey. We are ambitious, building for the long-term and backed by globally renowned investors including Index Ventures (Anthropic, Wiz, Figma, Revolut). Our company is built by exceptional engineers who find high-impact and technically challenging work engaging and exciting, consistently delivering outsized impact. You will collaborate with brilliant minds to solve some of the world’s hardest and most important problems, with ownership and autonomy from Day One. There is no corporate ladder at Arondite; we hire the best people and give them extremely high levels of autonomy. The sky is the limit for an individual with the right ambition.

Office vs Hybrid Working: We focus on building a positive, collaborative engineering-driven culture. We believe in making the office a friendly, comfortable and fun place to be and encourage working from the office where possible. There are times when working from home makes sense and that is acceptable. You may also need to travel to visit customers depending on your role. You should only apply if you are excited to come into the office and work in person by default.

Security Clearance: This role is likely to require UK security vetting to Security Check (SC) or above, which normally requires continuous UK residency for at least 5 years.

Right to Work: Candidates must have an existing Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.

Experience
- Solid working knowledge of Westminster: understanding who matters, how decisions are made, and the priorities of ministerial offices.
- Proven ability to write clear, concise and persuasive materials including briefing paragraphs, technical factsheets and Q&A responses under pressure.
- Demonstrated bias for action: proactively identifying what needs to happen and making it happen without waiting to be told.
- Genuine interest in defence and national security technology, not necessarily formal background but a strong desire to understand the subject.

Ideally:
- Curiosity about emerging communication and engagement approaches, with an appetite for rapid iteration and experimentation.
- Comfort with technical subject matter, willing to go deep enough to communicate credibly without needing to be an engineer.
- Experience managing an external agency or acting as the day-to-day client contact on government affairs or communications briefs.

About You
You are motivated by Arondite’s mission and excited to work in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. You have the confidence to speak up if you believe the wrong choice is being made and can manage multiple priorities effectively. You thrive in a role that requires autonomy and initiative, and you are comfortable working across diverse workstreams with shifting priorities.

We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates with varied backgrounds and experiences. We do not expect every candidate to meet all criteria equally; experience may be stronger in either Public Affairs or Communications.

Qualifications
Right to Work in the UK is required. Security clearance or willingness to undergo UK Security Check (SC) vetting is necessary due to the nature of the role.