The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) - yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that.

Ankar is building the R&D tools for the AI era and defining what applied research will look like in the next 20 years. We’re building infrastructure and product experiences our customers rely on every day. You’ll translate messy, ambiguous problems into clean, dependable software—and you’ll do it at the cutting-edge of AI.

We’re at an inflection point:

• We’ve raised >$24M to date from Tier-1 VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.

• We’re already working with the world’s most innovative companies including Fortune 500 company L’Oréal and global law firm Vorys

• Expanding our world-class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation market. We’re just getting started.
  

What you'll be doing

Own how Ankar shows up in the market - where we show up, what we do, and how we turn those moments into commercial outcomes. You’ll work closely with Sales and Commercial Development to build field programmes that create and accelerate pipeline.

• Own Field Marketing end-to-end. Lead everything from industry conferences and webinars to executive dinners, roundtables and targeted experiences.

• Build programmes around commercial priorities. Understand target accounts, active opportunities and pipeline gaps, and design programmes that create and accelerate demand.

• Partner deeply with Sales. Drive target account selection, outreach, meeting generation and fast follow-up around every programme.

• Build account-based experiences. Bring together events, gifting, direct outreach, digital and content to engage strategic accounts.

• Execute brilliantly. Own logistics, vendors, speakers, stakeholders and timelines across multiple programmes.

• Measure what matters. Track impact through account engagement, opportunities, deal progression, pipeline and revenue.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in B2B field marketing, owning and executing programmes from events and webinars to targeted account-based experiences.

• Strong experience partnering with Sales to support target accounts, create pipeline and accelerate active opportunities.

• Highly autonomous and comfortable managing multiple programmes, stakeholders, vendors and deadlines end-to-end.

• Creative and commercially minded, with a strong bias towards action and measurable commercial outcomes.

• Excellent communicator, able to work effectively across Sales, Marketing, leadership and external partners.

Culture at Ankar:

Culture at Ankar is how we think, build, and operate. We’re building a generational company that redefines how the world’s best R&D teams create and protect ideas.

• Contrarian - We think from first principles: We think deeply, question assumptions, and build from first principles. The best ideas come from clarity and rigour.

• Creative - We build with taste: We’re building the R&D tools for the AI era and shaping what applied research looks like over the next 20 years. We care about precision, quality, and systems that last.

• Competitive - We play to win: We move with urgency and set a very high bar for ourselves and each other. Every win raises the bar. Every challenge sharpens us.

This role is not for you if...

• You need a highly structured environment, a predefined playbook, regular working hours, or a schedule that never requires travel. We operate with high autonomy and ownership, expect our team to go above and beyond, be obsessed with our mission and thrive in ambiguity rather than wait for direction.

• You prefer long planning cycles and certainty before acting. We move quickly, ship often, and adapt based on customer feedback and new information.

• You want to manage the work rather than do the work. We're builders first, and everyone is expected to contribute directly to creating exceptional products.

• You take it personally when ideas are challenged, priorities shift, or work gets redirected. We care more about finding the right answer than defending a particular one.

What we put behind our people

Building at the frontier takes exceptional people. We invest accordingly.

• Health Insurance : Full private health & dental coverage for you and your dependents.

• Pension: Flexible pension scheme with up to 5% employer matching on qualifying earnings.

• Food on us: Team lunches twice a week, plus dinner when working late in the office.

• Cycle to work: Green Commute initiative scheme (up to £3k) to help you get a new bike tax-free.

• Way we work: We combine deep, in-person collaboration (3 days/week in our Shoreditch office) with flexibility and trust. What matters is ownership, impact, and results, not where you work from.

• Visa sponsorship: Yes