Head of Investor Relations

POSITION SUMMARY

Ouster is scaling as a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, bringing together high-performance digital lidar, cameras, AI compute, perception software, and AI models to enable real-world autonomy across industrial, robotics, automotive, and smart infrastructure markets. As a dedicated Investor Relations leader, you will strengthen Ouster’s engagement with the capital markets, sharpen the company’s strategic narrative, and help investors understand how Ouster’s differentiated technology platform, expanding customer ecosystem, and execution against long-term growth and profitability priorities position the company for increasing relevance in the public markets.

This role is critical to elevating Ouster’s market visibility, reinforcing transparency with financial stakeholders, and shaping how the investment community understands Ouster’s leadership in building a safer, smarter, and more automated physical world.

This senior leadership-level role is the integration point between the executive team, the Board, sell-side research analysts, and the institutional investor community – translating business strategy and operating results into a clear, credible, and differentiated investment narrative.

The ideal candidate has built or scaled an Investor Relations program inside a publicly traded company, carries established relationships across the sell-side research community, and has a proven playbook for growing and diversifying an institutional shareholder base through capital markets days, non-deal roadshows, and investor conferences. Candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to leverage AI-powered platforms and data analytics tools to enhance investor targeting, streamline communications, surface actionable market insights, and elevate the overall effectiveness of the investor relations function.

As the Head of Investor Relations, you will need to operate equally well as a strategist shaping the narrative with the CEO and CFO and as a hands-on operator managing the mechanics of quarterly earnings, analyst logistics, and investor targeting. This role also requires the ability to pivot internally and ensure clear, consistent messaging between our internal and external communications through partnership with marketing, PR, and our business leadership.

• Partner directly with the CEO, CFO, and executive leadership team to shape and continuously refine the company’s investment thesis, equity narrative, and key messaging pillars.
• Build a single, cohesive strategy that aligns Investor Relations, corporate Marketing, Communications/PR, and business-unit leaders around one consistent story across every external-facing channel – earnings materials, press releases, website, social, and events.
• Own the end-to-end quarterly earnings process: press releases, prepared remarks, investor presentations, Q&A preparation, and the underlying financial and operating models.
• Develop and maintain the annual IR calendar, communications plan, and issues/crisis-management playbook in close coordination with PR and Legal.

• Serve as the primary relationship owner for sell-side equity research analysts across bulge-bracket, mid-market, and boutique firms covering (or positioned to cover) the stock.
• Proactively manage and expand quality research coverage; lead outreach and onboarding for new analyst coverage initiations.
• Track and synthesize sell-side models, consensus estimates, and published research; brief management regularly on Street sentiment, model assumptions, and areas of misperception.
• Coordinate and host non-deal roadshows (NDRs), analyst site visits, and one-on-one / small-group analyst meetings.

• Design and execute a systematic institutional investor targeting and outreach program to grow and diversify the shareholder base across growth, index, and technology-oriented investors.
• Plan and lead flagship investor events, including Capital Markets/Analyst Days, investor conferences, non-deal roadshows, and reverse roadshows at company headquarters.
• Own the IR CRM and…