Uncover, craft and amplify the stories that make Basecamp Research unique

Every day at Basecamp Research, we make scientific, policy and commercial breakthroughs that surprise and delight our partners. From designing novel proteins to implementing international treaties, our team thrives on making tangible and rapid progress for the world around us.

Having spent the last three years building solid technical and operational foundations for global scale, we're now ready to bring on our first marketing and communications hire to craft and expand Basecamp Research's presence on the global stage.

This Lead level role offers you autonomy and unlimited opportunity. We're looking for someone who can combine clarity of vision with impeccable execution, whether it's as an individual contributor or in collaboration with a wider team.

Your primary challenge will be to translate the intricacies of our multidisciplinary work into memorable, impactful stories that resonate with our broad range of target audiences.

If that sounds like your ideal next step, read on!

What you'll do

• Build inbound interest from external partners: you'll have free rein to create and experiment with content and experiences that best communicate what Basecamp Research has to offer
• Craft our global media presence: you'll curate the most appropriate channels, journalists and influencers to distribute and reinforce our most important stories
• Place our team in the right communities: you'll always be on the lookout for conferences and meet-ups, niche or broad, where our team can be in the spotlight, but also encounter liked-minded pioneers
• Track and iterate on our performance: you'll become our team's best role model for the maxim "you can't improve what you don't measure"

Who you are

• You love telling meaningful stories about cutting-edge science
  

• You love building things that have measurable impact

• You love scaling up processes and organisations

• You care about the future of our world
  
  

Your experience

We believe the best communicators draw on a wide base of professional and personal experiences. As such, we don't have an ideal CV in mind for this role.

For example, have you spent extended time in:

More about Basecamp Research

We are unlocking the potential of our planet’s unexplored biodiversity to build sustainable solutions with our biotechnology partners whilst demonstrating the value of our world’s undiscovered biology.

At Basecamp Research, we pride ourselves on being a diverse, exciting, fun, and flexible place to work. We are a team of biologists, data scientists and explorers united by a sense of adventure and the belief that nature has already designed the solutions to our planet’s greatest challenges - we just have to go out and discover them!

If you feel passionate about the power of biology to show the inherent value of nature and to build a better world, we’d love to hear from you. 

What we offer

• The opportunity to be a key early member of the team in one of the world's most exciting biotech companies

• The autonomy to experiment: you'll have full ownership over how we present Basecamp Research to the rest of the world

• An excellent salary with generous benefits and options

• A fun, flexible and supportive work environment with an office in the centre of London and an emphasis on collaboration and personal development