Corporate Communications Marketing Manager

What We’re Building Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023! If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases. Who We Are We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers. How We Work We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote 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 Base Salary based on level of experience $145,000—$170,000 USD What you'll get when you join the Hive: A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical A distributed-first mindset and culture (really!) Home office, co-working, and internet stipend Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood Annual development allowance And much more... Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work. Phishing and Recruitment Scam Warning: We take your security seriously. Please be aware that recruitment scams are increasingly common and scammers may create email addresses or websites to impersonate Honeycomb employees. To help protect you: All communications will come from an @honeycomb.io email address We occasionally work with external recruiting agencies. These partners will use legitimate business email addresses—never personal accounts like Gmail or Yahoo. Our recruiting process will never ask you to provide financial or sensitive personal information, including but not limited to: Social security or tax identification numbers Credit card numbers Bank account information Diversity & Accommodations: We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams. We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know. As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback. Privacy Notice: If you apply for a job at Honeycomb and your application is unsuccessful (or you withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Honeycomb will retain your information after your application for a period of time in accordance with local laws. We retain this information for various reasons, including in case we face a legal challenge in respect of a recruitment decision, to consider you for other current or future jobs at Honeycomb, and to help us better understand, analyze and improve our recruitment processes. For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice. If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact privacy@honeycomb.io. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims.