Marketing Director

Director of Marketing – Motion Ventures

Overview

Motion Ventures is a Singapore-based venture firm investing in the transformation of maritime, trade, and supply chain infrastructure — industries that underpin the movement of nearly everything on earth, and that most of the tech world has never thought seriously about.

We're looking for someone to build our marketing function from the ground up. Not to run campaigns. Not to optimise funnels. To build the kind of institutional gravity that makes the best founders, operators, and partners seek us out before they seek anyone else.

If your career has been about reach, awareness, or follower growth — this is not the right role. If it has been about earned authority, narrative infrastructure, and making other people look extraordinary — read on.

What You'll Own

Founder and Ecosystem Gravity

• Build each of our portfolio founders' public presence as thoughtfully as you build ours: their gravity is our gravity, and this is where the work starts.
• Design and operate the systems (content, events, partnerships, media) that pull the right founders and operators into our orbit before a formal process begins.
• Identify and own the handful of high-leverage moments each year (flagship reports, ecosystem gatherings, portfolio launches) that do more work than 50 ordinary activations.

Institutional Narrative

• Define how Motion Ventures is understood by founders, LPs, corporate partners, and the broader maritime and tech ecosystem.
• Build narrative frameworks that are durable, not campaign-dependent: the kind that compound over years, not quarters.
• Make our investment thesis legible to people who don't speak VC, and make the maritime opportunity legible to people who don't speak shipping.

Content and Editorial Infrastructure

• Own our voice across all channels: LinkedIn, newsletter, long-form sector writing, and selective media partnerships.
• Commission and edit work that meets a high editorial standard; write when the moment calls for it.
• Resist the temptation to publish constantly. Set a bar and hold it.

Operating Infrastructure

• For the foreseeable future, this is an individual contributor role. You will do the work, not delegate it.
• Build the reporting and attribution frameworks that give the investment and platform teams genuine signal on what is working.
• Partner with the General Partner and the investment team to align marketing output directly with fund goals: sourcing, LP relationships, and ecosystem positioning.

What This Is Not

We are not building a content machine. We are not optimising for impressions. We are not looking for someone who has grown a firm's LinkedIn following or built a demand generation engine.

The model we have in mind is closer to Margit Wennmachers at a16z than to a conventional CMO: someone who understood that the best marketing for a VC firm is making its founders and partners so visible, so credible, and so useful that the firm absorbs the gravity by association.

That means the right person probably has a background in editorial, institutional communications, premium brand, or frontier technology narrative — and almost certainly has never run a marketing team at a Series B SaaS company.

Who We're Looking For

You might come from any of these directions:

• Journalism or editorial, particularly from publications that cover business, technology, or ideas seriously (FT, The Economist, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, Monocle, or equivalent).
• VC platform or editorial; you've worked inside a top-tier firm (a16z, Sequoia, First Round, Lux, NfX) building the content, narrative, or communications function.
• Premium brand or institutional communications; you've worked for a brand where trust is the product or an institution where narrative is infrastructure (policy, foundation, cultural).
• Frontier technology communications; you've shaped how a company like Anduril, Palantir, or Hadrian tells a story to audiences who are hard to impress.
• Policy or principal communications; you've written for leaders, shaped narratives for institutions, and done it without putting your name on it.

Across all of these, we're looking for the same thing: someone who has built something small that punched above its weight; who understands that the most powerful brand is one that earns authority rather than claims it; who is more energised by making others look extraordinary than by being seen yourself; and who thinks in years, not campaigns.

Experience

• Relevant experience in editorial, brand, institutional communications, or platform work; the depth matters more than the years.
• Strong writer; not as a credential, but as evidence of how you think.
• Operationally serious: able to build systems, set measurement frameworks, and create infrastructure that outlasts any single campaign.
• Curious about frontier sectors; you don't need a background in maritime or logistics, but you need to find the space genuinely interesting once you're in it.
• Maritime experience is not required and is not a differentiating factor.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to build something genuinely from scratch, with real mandate and genuine support from the top.
• A front-row seat to the transformation of one of the world's most consequential and underinvested sectors.
• Access to an exceptionally high-quality network of founders, operators, and investors across maritime, logistics, and supply chain technology.
• Competitive compensation benchmarked to senior individual contributor roles in Singapore's venture and technology ecosystem.

If you've read this and thought, "this isn't quite a marketing role" — you're right, and you might be exactly who we're looking for.

To apply, send a note and examples of your work to ***email_hidden***. We read everything.