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Virgin Galactic is seeking a Vice President of Brand, Marketing & Content to define how the world understands, experiences and engages with our brand.
Reporting to the Chief Growth Officer, you will lead the Brand, Marketing & Content organization and develop an integrated strategy that builds brand equity, expands global awareness and supports sustainable business growth. You will be responsible for brand strategy, consumer proposition, paid media, CRM, demand generation, and conversion.
You will also lead Galactic Studios, our in-house content and production studio responsible for producing spaceflight livestreams and creating personalized flight-day content packages for our astronauts. You will ensure its work combines creative excellence with the preparation, precision and reliability required for live spaceflight operations.
This role works closely with the Vice President of Communications to align enterprise storytelling and major company moments. Communications will set and steward Virgin Galactic's company narrative while Brand, Marketing, and Content translates that narrative into brand positioning and commercial campaigns, consumer marketing, creative development, content production and audience engagement.
The position is based at Virgin Galactic's Flight Offices in Orange County, California, with frequent travel to our New Mexico operations facilities and select events and destinations.
Responsibilities
Lead Brand, Marketing and Growth

• Develop and execute a multi-year brand, marketing and content strategy aligned with Virgin Galactic's company narrative, commercial priorities and long-term ambition.
• Establish annual marketing plans, campaign architecture and investment strategy across paid, owned and experiential channels.
• Strengthen Virgin Galactic's positioning and brand architecture, ensuring the brand remains distinctive, relevant and consistently expressed.
• Direct integrated marketing across creative, content, digital, media, partnerships, experiential, events, CRM, research, and data and analytics.
• Build programs for prospective astronauts, existing customers, brand enthusiasts, research and technology customers, and other priority audiences.
• Partner with Sales to support demand generation, customer engagement and conversion.
• Curate partnerships and cultural opportunities that increase relevance, expand reach and strengthen brand equity.
• Collaborate with the Virgin Group marketing council and other Virgin businesses while maintaining brand standards and licensing compliance.

Lead Galactic Studios

• Set the creative vision, production standards and operating model for Virgin Galactic's in-house content studio.
• Oversee the planning and production of spaceflight livestreams, ensuring they are compelling, accurate, technically reliable and closely coordinated with Flight Operations, Communications, Customer Experience and other critical stakeholders.
• Lead the creation of premium, personalized flight-day content that enables astronauts to preserve and share their experience.
• Develop repeatable systems for capturing, editing, managing and distributing content from flight days and other defining company moments.
• Lead capabilities spanning creative direction, broadcast, production, editorial, photography, video, post-production and content operations.
• Establish appropriate production protocols, review processes and contingency plans for live and operationally sensitive environments.
• Build a content library and asset-management approach that creates long-term value from Virgin Galactic's imagery, footage and stories.
• Determine the appropriate balance of internal capabilities, production partners and specialist vendors as flight cadence and content needs evolve.

Partner Across the Enterprise

• Work with Communications to maintain an aligned enterprise narrative and coordinated approach to spaceflights, campaigns, executive moments and other high-profile initiatives.
• Establish clear roles, workflows and approval processes across Brand, Marketing, Content and Communications.
• Bring together teams across Sales, Communications, Customer Experience, Operations, Engineering, Safety and other functions to deliver complex initiatives under demanding timelines.
• Ensure every brand expression-from a global campaign to an astronaut's personal flight film-reflects the quality and significance of the Virgin Galactic experience.

Drive Performance and Build the Team

• Establish objectives, KPIs and measurement frameworks for brand, marketing, content and align creative output with business priorities.
• Connect marketing investment to business outcomes through disciplined analytics, testing and optimization.
• Own the Brand, Marketing & Content budget, balancing long-term brand building with near-term commercial and production priorities.
• Oversee agencies, production partners and vendors, ensuring creative excellence, efficient delivery and accountability.
• Build, lead and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary team.
• Create clear priorities, effective operating rhythms and a culture that combines creative ambition with commercial and operational rigor.
• Communicate performance, insights and recommendations clearly to executive leadership.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across brand, marketing, content, media or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of direct people-management experience, including leadership of a multidisciplinary marketing, creative or content organization.
• A proven record of building distinctive brands and developing strategies that contribute to measurable business growth.
• Experience leading integrated campaigns across creative, content, digital, media, experiential and CRM channels.
• Experience overseeing an in-house creative studio, content organization, broadcast operation or comparable production capability.
• Demonstrated success producing high-profile livestreams, broadcasts, events or complex real-time content experiences.
• Deep expertise in brand positioning, creative development and storytelling, with the ability to make complex or technical subjects relevant and compelling.
• Strong knowledge of production workflows, editorial operations, rights management, digital asset management and external production partnerships.
• The judgment and composure to lead creative production in live, technically complex and operationally sensitive environments.
• Strong commercial and analytical judgment, including experience setting KPIs, evaluating effectiveness and improving return on marketing investment.
• Experience managing significant budgets, agencies, production partners and external vendors.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, relationship-management and influencing skills.
• The ability to collaborate effectively with Communications while maintaining clear accountability for brand, marketing and content outcomes.
• A record of attracting, developing and retaining exceptional talent.
• A bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, media, production or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. An MBA or relevant advanced degree is a plus.
• Willingness to travel frequently, including availability around spaceflight schedules.

Who You Are
You are a brand builder, creative leader and enterprise operator. You are equally comfortable defining a long-term strategy, evaluating creative work, interpreting performance data and leading production around one of the company's most consequential moments.
You combine cultural instinct with commercial discipline and creative ambition with operational rigor. You understand the responsibility involved in capturing an astronaut's experience-and the preparation required to share a live spaceflight with audiences around the world.
Above all, you are motivated by the opportunity to help define a category and tell one of the most extraordinary stories in human exploration with clarity, credibility and ambition.
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The annual U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $250,000.00-$325,000.00. The base pay actually offered will vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, location, and experience and take into account internal equity. Other forms of pay (e.g., bonus or long term incentive) may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the position offered. For more information regarding Virgin Galactic benefits, please visit https://vgcareers.virgingalactic.com/global/en/benefits
Who We Are
Virgin Galactic is an aerospace and space travel company, pioneering human spaceflight for private individuals and researchers with its advanced air and space vehicles. We are making the dream of space travel a reality, delivering spaceflight at an unprecedented frequency, with the development of next generation space vehicles .
Export Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Person (either a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident or a protected individual as defined 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) or be able to obtain the required authorization from either the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce. The applicant must also not be included in the list of Specifically Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control. See list here .
EEO Statement
Virgin Galactic is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Virgin Galactic is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Drug Free Workplace
Virgin Galactic is committed to a Drug Free Workplace. All applicants post offer and active teammates are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies. This can include pre-employment, random, reasonable suspicion, and accident related drug and alcohol testing.
Phoenix Employment Requirements
For individuals seeking employment at our Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport facility, employment is contingent upon you obtaining and maintaining a TSA authorized security badge. This includes initial and annual mandatory background checks that are governed by TSA, and conducted by the Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport badging office.