Marketing and Comms Lead

The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) - yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that.

Ankar is building the R&D tools for the AI era and defining what applied research will look like in the next 20 years. We’re building infrastructure and product experiences our customers rely on every day. You’ll translate messy, ambiguous problems into clean, dependable software—and you’ll do it at the cutting-edge of AI.

We’re at an inflection point:

• We’ve raised >$24M to date from Tier-1 VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.

• We’re already working with the world’s most innovative companies including Fortune 500 company L’Oréal and global law firm Vorys

• Expanding our world-class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation market. We’re just getting started.

We're looking for a visionary Product Marketer to own our positioning and sales enablement.

This is a critical role that blends strategy with hands-on execution. You will shape our narrative at the user level, craft our competitive positioning and structure our launches. You will work closely with the product and go-to-market teams to identify our audiences, position the platform in the ecosystem and translate our story into scalable growth. You will translate the voice of the user into roadmap priorities, build strategic narratives and drive our brand campaigns targeting patent and R&D decision-makers

We are looking for someone who thrives in zero-to-one environments and can combine narrative instinct, ruthless prioritization, and executional intensity to build our product marketing and deliver tangible results.

• Collaborate with founders and sales, product, and go-to-market leadership to translate product and market insights into a focused brand messaging framework

• Produce compelling editorial content, such as blog articles and case studies, to define and evolve Ankar's positioning as a thought leader in the innovation and patent space across the US and Europe

• Develop and execute the marketing strategy across content, website, social, campaigns, and events

• Design campaigns and programs that will bring Ankar into conversations with enterprise buyers

• Measure marketing success through commercial impact, not vanity metrics

• Define, plan, and execute our presence at global industry events, client conferences, webinars, and sponsored forums — establishing clear success metrics

• Build and expand our community-led content by identifying key influencers and cultivating brand evangelists

• Proven experience in B2B marketing, ideally in high-growth SaaS startups or scale-ups selling to enterprise and/or legal audiences

• Exceptional writing skills in English across multiple formats (e.g., case studies, interviews, and thought leadership)

• Data-driven decision-maker with commercial acumen

• Strong design and editorial instinct

• Builder mindset with extreme ownership of outcomes

• Comfortable collaborating with technical teams and translating complex products into clear, impactful narratives for non-technical audiences

• Ability to produce simple short-form video content for social distribution

Instinct & Taste: You will be instrumental in defining the brand positioning of Ankar through visuals and words. They need to flow.

Builder: You have a DIY mentality and aren't afraid to get your hands dirty. You will be organizing events, building visuals, writing articles, and more. You're resourceful and can do more with less.

Adaptable & Business-Savvy: You understand that marketing exists to support growth and revenue. You will monitor ROI and make sure we allocate resources to maximize impact.

Curious About Innovation: You have a deep love for science and innovation across disciplines, from biology to aeronautics.

Culture at Ankar:

Culture at Ankar is how we think, build, and operate. We’re building a generational company that redefines how the world’s best R&D teams create and protect ideas.

• Contrarian - we think from first principles: We think deeply, question assumptions, and build from first principles. The best ideas come from clarity and rigour.

• Creative - we build with taste: We’re building the R&D tools for the AI era and shaping what applied research looks like over the next 20 years. We care about precision, quality, and systems that last.

• Competitiveness - we play to win: We move with urgency and set a very high bar for ourselves and each other. Every win raises the bar. Every challenge sharpens us.

What we put behind our people

Building at the frontier takes exceptional people. We invest accordingly.

• Health Insurance : Full private health & dental coverage for you and your dependents.

• Pension: Flexible pension scheme with up to 5% employer matching on qualifying earnings.

• Food on us: Team lunches twice a week, plus dinner when working late in the office.

• Cycle to work: Green Commute initiative scheme (up to £3k) to help you get a new bike tax-free.

• Way we work: We combine deep, in-person collaboration (3 days/week in our Shoreditch office) with flexibility and trust. What matters is ownership, impact, and results, not where you work from.

• Visa sponsorship: Yes