VP of PR/External Communications Lead
At JetBrains, code is our passion. Ever since we started back in 2000, we have been striving to make the strongest, most effective developer tools on earth. By automating routine checks and corrections, our tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover, and create. We’re honoured that more than 11 million users consistently choose our tools. We’re particularly proud to call 88 Fortune Global Top 100 companies our valued customers.
Own and run company-level external communications. Protect and grow the company's reputation, take a defined strategic narrative to market, close the known US visibility gap, build thought leadership and a spokesperson bench, and stand up the PR operating model, including playbooks, message houses, an editorial calendar and perception studies. This is a senior execution-and-build role: the company narrative is set centrally; this leader runs the machine that delivers it globally.
The role requires 10+ years in tech PR with senior leadership experience, ideally in B2B, developer, enterprise or infrastructure environments. You will have built and led distributed PR teams across regions, with proven US results, and have a track record of taking a defined strategic story to market rather than focusing on press-release output. Experience in thought leadership and spokesperson development, crisis communications, and agency and budget management at scale is required. You should be fluent working with technical, developer-facing audiences and an AI-transition story.
Preferred experience includes working in an AI or developer-tools company during a positioning shift, existing tier-one US tech media relationships, and comfort operating across a US/Europe time split.