Senior Marketing Manager in Abingdon

Luffy AI is the foundation AI company at the forefront of the Physical AI revolution. Every motor, every drive, every system that moves, heats or reacts has run on control algorithms invented before the microchip. A hundred years of industry built on logic that was never designed to learn, never designed to adapt, and never designed to improve. We're changing that. Spun out of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and based at Culham Campus in Oxford, we are a team of physicists, engineers and AI researchers working on the intelligence that will run the next hundred years - in every factory, every vehicle, every robot, every machine that does something real.

The role involves being an exceptional first marketing person, defining the function without starting from scratch. You will join a technical team of researchers and scientists, with a pipeline of serious partnerships and a story that deserves to be told. Your job is to tell it through content that earns the attention of engineers and innovation leaders at the world's largest industrial organisations, through relationships formed at events and trade shows, and through a brand presence that reflects the quality of the work behind it.

This is a hands-on role with no team to delegate to and no playbook to follow. The ideal candidate will thrive on making things rather than managing them, building communications that keep conversations alive while working with our commercial team. You will collaborate with researchers to extract insights from their work and shape it into meaningful content for the audience.

Your responsibilities include:

• Building and owning the marketing function from the ground up — strategy, execution, and everything in between.
• Developing and maintaining the nurturing infrastructure that keeps commercial relationships progressing between senior touchpoints — sequences, follow-up, CRM workflows.
• Extracting insight from our research and engineering teams and shaping it into content (including long form and short form written, video and audio content) that builds credibility with technical and commercial audiences.
• Owning our trade show and events presence end to end — from logistics and collateral through to pre-show outreach and post-show follow-up.
• Owning the brand and website, ensuring both reflect the quality and ambition of the work behind them.
• Working with our external communications agency — briefing, reviewing output, and ensuring everything that goes out reflects the voice and ambition of the company.
• Collaborating closely with the commercial team to ensure marketing activity maps directly to pipeline, and that every touchpoint from first contact to follow-up is consistent, timely and purposeful.
• Being hands-on with website, social and content tools.

You will be a good fit if you:

• Have built B2B2B marketing in a technical, industrial or research-led environment and know what it takes to earn credibility with people who have deep domain expertise.
• Understand how large industrial organisations partner and buy - long cycles, multiple stakeholders, decisions made on trust long before they're made on contract.
• Are genuinely curious about hard technology and want to understand what makes ours interesting.
• Build things rather than brief them - you set direction and execute it.
• Have set up or meaningfully improved a CRM-based nurturing programme and understand what successful systematic follow-up looks like.
• Have owned and managed trade show presence end to end.
• Are energised rather than unsettled by early-stage environments.

Exceptional candidates will also have:

• Experience extracting and shaping technical content from research or engineering teams.
• Familiarity with industrial automation, drives, robotics, semiconductors and adjacent sectors.
• An active interest or background in the Physical AI space and where it's heading.

We welcome applicants with non-traditional career paths or equivalent experience. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We don’t expect candidates to meet every requirement listed — if you’re excited about the role and think you could be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you. We also recognise that people have different responsibilities and circumstances. We’re open to discussing flexible working arrangements, including around caring responsibilities, to help make the role work for you.

What we offer: Salary + bonus + equity. Abingdon / remote hybrid, at Culham Campus. You’ll work directly with the EVP GTM & Commercial from day one.

Location: Abingdon / remote hybrid. Office-based two days per week at our Culham Campus - proximity to the research and engineering team is part of what makes this role work. Travel required for key industry events - typically four to six trips per year.