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Quaise Energy is unlocking Earth's deep heat to deliver clean, reliable, baseload energy at scale – almost anywhere in the world. As both a technology innovator and project developer, Quaise builds and operates solutions that harness superhot geothermal energy far below the surface, enabling power generation that can rival the output of today's most efficient fossil fuel and nuclear plants. Leveraging millimeter wave drilling, developed after more than a decade of research at MIT, Quaise's mission is to make superhot geothermal a backbone of the modern energy system, offering affordable, zero-carbon power and true energy independence for communities and nations everywhere.

The Senior Communications Specialist will play a defining, hands-on role in shaping Quaise Energy's online, physical, and internal engagement. You will lead all social media channels, event execution, internal communications, and day-to-day content development. Reporting to the Director of Communications, you will work closely with leadership, technical teams, human resources, external partners, and creative vendors to translate Quaise's progress into highly compelling, accurate content and events.

In this role, you will manage complex communications initiatives, write with clarity, think strategically, and bring energy and creativity to your work. You will help Quaise communicate with the credibility and imagination of a company redefining the global energy landscape by translating groundbreaking technology into compelling stories that resonate with diverse audiences. Your work will play a key role in building a brand that inspires and excites employees, customers, investors, partners, and the broader energy community.

Additional responsibilities include maintaining a positive corporate culture, promoting a safe and creative work environment, identifying and supporting opportunities for external collaborations, and other activities designed to improve Quaise.

Work Location: Flexible. Hybrid preferred in Cambridge, MA; Houston, TX; or Bend, OR, with consideration for fully remote candidates.

Essential functions (Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.)

Social Media

• Manage and grow Quaise Energy's social media presence.
• Draft, edit, schedule, and publish company posts, executive thought leadership, event content, project updates, technical explainers, employee stories, and culture content.
• Help translate complex topics, including superhot geothermal energy and millimeter wave drilling, into clear, engaging content for broad audiences.
• Identify strong story angles from across the company, including technical milestones, field activity, partnerships, hiring, culture, and market developments.
• Maintain and manage editorial calendars, review workflows, campaign plans, content libraries, messaging documents, and recurring templates.
• Track and analyze social media performance, audience growth, engagement, and content themes, and recommend ways to improve reach and quality.
• Monitor industry conversations, competitor communications, policy and energy trends, and social media opportunities relevant to Quaise.
• Collaborate with designers, photographers, videographers, agencies, and internal subject-matter experts to create strong visual and multimedia content.
• Help ensure Quaise's public voice remains clear, credible, and ambitious.

Events

• Maintain company-wide event calendars, checklists, budgets, vendor details, shipping plans, and post-event learnings.
• Lead planning and execution for conferences, trade shows, speaking engagements, site visits, investor events, webinars, company-hosted events, and internal meetings.
• Coordinate event logistics, including timelines, registrations, booth materials, shipping, vendors, briefing documents, speaker preparation, run-of-show materials, signage, and follow-up.
• Develop event-related communications, including social media posts, speaker bios, talking points, internal briefings, presentation support, attendee outreach, and recap content.
• Help turn events into storytelling opportunities before, during, and after they happen.
• Work cross-functionally with leadership, technical teams, external partners, and vendors to ensure events are organized, strategic, and well-executed.
• Help identify high-value conferences, speaking opportunities, awards, panels, podcasts, and industry forums that advance Quaise's visibility and credibility.
• Capture and repurpose event moments into social posts, internal updates, website content, newsletters, multimedia assets, and future campaign material.
• Serve as a reliable communications lead for select events, ensuring details are expertly handled and opportunities are not missed.

Internal Communications

• Help build internal communications systems that keep employees informed, connected, and proud of the mission.
• Maintain and build digital resources for all employees to share branded materials and company talking points.
• Draft and edit internal announcements, leadership messages, newsletters, company updates, meeting recaps, employee spotlights, and culture-building content.
• Support all-hands meetings, leadership updates, internal events, milestone announcements, and employee engagement moments.
• Partner with Human Resources, Operations, Safety, Engineering, and leadership teams to communicate important updates clearly and effectively.
• Help create communications rhythms, templates, and processes that improve transparency across a fast-moving, widespread organization.
• Ensure internal communications are direct, timely, personal, and aligned with Quaise's external narrative.
• Look for ways to make employees feel connected to the bigger picture of how Quaise is building the future of energy.

Additional Support

• Support website updates, blog posts, newsletters, media materials, award submissions, presentations, employer brand content, and other communications projects as needed.
• Help ensure consistency across Quaise's messaging, tone, visual identity, and public-facing materials.
• Conduct research on industry trends, competitor messaging, stakeholder conversations, and communications best practices.
• Support the Director of Communications with campaign planning, content creation, annual communications planning, reporting, and strategic communications initiatives.
• Bring ideas for posts, videos, event activations, internal moments, website copy, campaigns, and ways to make Quaise Energy's story sharper.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Competencies

• Comfortable operating within a startup or high-growth environment with evolving priorities.
• Ability to operate independently while maintaining strong collaboration across teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to interact well with customers and co-workers, in the field and the office.
• Excellent writing and editing instincts.
• A history of being organized, proactive, and calm under pressure.
• Strong taste in language, visuals, and storytelling.
• The ability to simplify complex ideas without making them simplistic.
• A bias toward action and ownership.
• Comfort working with technical experts and asking smart questions.
• Strong organizational habits and attention to detail.
• Good judgment around tone, accuracy, timing, and audience.
• Curiosity about energy, climate, infrastructure, technology, and world-changing ideas.
• A desire to help build a brand with substance, not just visibility.

Supervisory responsibilities

• This position does not include direct supervisory responsibilities but may coordinate cross-functional communications deliverables and external vendors as needed.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, public relations, marketing, English, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4 plus years of experience in communications, social media, content marketing, public relations, internal communications, events, journalism, or a related field.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills.
• Experience managing social media channels, editorial calendars, executive content, or thought leadership programs.
• Experience managing and supporting events, conferences, trade shows, speaking engagements, webinars, or internal company gatherings.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines, stakeholders, and workflows at once.
• Strong judgment and attention to detail, especially when working on sensitive, technical, or high-visibility communications.
• Experience collaborating with executives, technical teams, agencies, designers, vendors, or external partners.
• Ability to take projects from concept through execution and measurement.

Preferred experience

• Experience in climate tech, energy, deep tech, hard tech, infrastructure, manufacturing, industrial technology, or venture-backed startups.
• Familiarity with geothermal energy, energy transition, power generation, oil and gas, drilling, industrial heat, infrastructure, or decarbonization.
• Experience developing content for executives or companies.
• Experience with internal communications for growing or distributed teams.
• Experience with video, photography, visual storytelling, or creative production.

Physical requirements

• This role requires prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• The employee is regularly required to stand, sit, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, as well as use hands to feel, reach, grasp, handle, or operate objects, tools and/or controls.
• The employee must be able to lift, push, pull, transfer, or move items up 20 pounds at times for departmental needs.
• Ability to move from one worksite to another or travel to various job sites and locations to complete tasks.
• The vision requirement includes reviewing written and electronic materials in digital and physical format.
• Ability to work safely around high voltage and high power systems, consistently prioritizing safe work environments and adhering to established safety protocols and procedures.
• The employee must be able to adjust to changing work hours and locations as needed considering the strong focus on external communications and relationships.