Corporate Communications Marketing Manager

Little more about the team:

We’re looking for a Corporate Communications Manager to help own and manage our thought leadership program and executive relations platforms as a part of our external media relations efforts. This role will be essential to shaping Honeycomb’s narrative in the market, with the media and across our engineering/developer communities. 

This is a highly visible role where you’ll be working closely with the founders of our organization and other well-respected industry subject matter experts to ensure we’re strategically amplifying their voices and points of view in the market.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Set direction for and execute on our global communications plans – with a focus on creating scalable, programmatic integrated communications activities – enhancing Honeycomb’s voice in the market and reinforcing its leadership in AI observability. 
• Create and maintain an active thought leadership program including building relationships with and providing counsel to the current bench of subject matter experts, identifying new thought leaders and cultivating new storylines that support Honeycomb’s goals.
• Oversee, identify and submit for industry awards or recognitions and speaking opportunities that validate Honeycomb’s category leadership, innovation strategy, company culture and customer champions. 
• Partner with our PR agency to manage day-to-day activities, guide the short- and long-term program direction, etc. while connecting the team with Honeycomb’s experts to drive timely and relevant stories to the market (via media articles, communities, newsletters, podcasts, events, etc).
• Advocate for corporate communications within Honeycomb, sharing our news, success and POV across the employee community. This includes ensuring coverage is socialized on our corporate social channels, website and within our internal communications infrastructure (Slack, intranet, etc) as well as enabling the Sales teams with details on why coverage matters and details on how to use it to engage with prospects.
• Create sustainable metrics to measure the influence that the communications program is having on business outcomes. This includes Honeycomb’s perception in the market including share of voice and prompt/brand visibility via LLMs (i.e. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini).
• Support any milestone corporate events (i.e. product launches, partner announcements, etc), crisis communications incidents, people team collaborations and more.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 5-10 years of experience in external communications and/or journalism with a strength in storytelling, media relations, executive counsel, project management and collaboration
• PR agency and/or in-house communications experience preferred
• Excellent writing, editing and verbal communication skills
• Executive management and relationship building is a must
• Preference for understanding of technical topics in B2B SaaS space; ability to digest technical information and reiterate for variety of audience is critical
• Experience using LLMs to scale programming and tactical execution
• Social media proficiency is preferred but not required
• Ability to prioritize and mulit-task in a fast-paced, dynamic environment