Brand & Communications Manager

Brand & Communications Manager – 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 building 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.

This role is for someone earlier in their career who understands — instinctively, not just conceptually — that the most powerful brand earns authority rather than claims it. You don't need a long track record. You need the right orientation, the craft, and the hunger to build something that matters.

If your career has been about reach, awareness, or follower growth — this is not the right role. If you've been drawn to earned authority, narrative craft, and making other people look extraordinary — read on.

What You'll Work On

Founder and Ecosystem Gravity

• Support the development of our portfolio founders' public presence: their gravity is our gravity, and this is where the work starts.


• Execute and iterate on the systems — content, events, partnerships, media — that pull the right founders and operators into our orbit before a formal process begins.


• Help identify the handful of high-leverage moments each year (flagship reports, ecosystem gatherings, portfolio launches) that do more work than fifty ordinary activations, and make them land.

Institutional Narrative

• Help shape how Motion Ventures is understood by founders, LPs, corporate partners, and the broader maritime and tech ecosystem.


• Contribute to narrative frameworks that are durable, not campaign-dependent: the kind that compound over years, not quarters.


• Translate our investment thesis for 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 channels: LinkedIn, newsletter, long-form sector writing, and selective media partnerships.


• Write when the moment calls for it. Edit to a high standard. Hold the bar.


• Resist the temptation to publish constantly. Quality over volume, always.

Operating Infrastructure

• For the foreseeable future, this is an individual contributor role. You will do the work, not delegate it.


• Help build the reporting and attribution frameworks that give the investment and platform teams genuine signal on what is working.


• Work closely with the General Partner and investment team to align output 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 wants to grow a firm's LinkedIn following or build 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's the standard we're building toward — and what this role is for.

That means the right person probably has instincts for editorial, institutional narrative, or premium brand — 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:

• VC or startup communications — you've been inside a firm or early-stage company building content, narrative, or communications from scratch, even if the institution wasn't yet well-known.


• Brand or institutional communications — you've worked somewhere where trust is the product, and learned how reputation is actually built rather than claimed.


• Policy, think tank, or principal communications — you've shaped how ideas reach audiences, often without putting your name on the work.


• Journalism or editorial — you've written seriously about business, technology, or ideas, at a major publication or a smaller one with genuinely high standards. The platform matters less than the quality of the work.

Across all of these, we're looking for the same thing: someone who has made a small platform punch above its weight; who is more energised by making others look extraordinary than by being seen themselves; and who already thinks in years, not campaigns. A compelling body of work matters more to us than a prestigious employer.

Experience

• Some relevant experience in editorial, brand, communications, or content — enough to show you understand what good looks like and have held yourself to it.


• A strong writer; not as a credential, but as evidence of how you think.


• Operationally serious: you follow through, build systems, and create things that outlast any single project.


• 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 ownership, close mentorship from the General Partner, and room to grow as the function grows.


• A front-row seat to the transformation of one of the world's most consequential and underinvested sectors.


• Access to a high-quality network of founders, operators, and investors across maritime, logistics, and supply chain technology.


• Competitive compensation benchmarked to the role level in Singapore's venture and technology ecosystem.