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VP of PR/External Communications Lead

JetBrains· Public Relations (PR) and Communications
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Hybrid (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Hybrid (London, United Kingdom)full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior leader responsible for company-level external communications, reputation management, strategic narrative, and global PR operations across regions, with a focus on US visibility, thought leadership, and spokesperson development.

Responsibilities

  • 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 (playbooks, message houses, editorial calendar, 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.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in tech PR with senior leadership experience – ideally B2B, developer, enterprise, or infrastructure
  • Built and led distributed PR teams across regions, with proven US results
  • Narrative-led PR – track record taking a defined strategic story to market, not press-release output
  • Thought leadership and spokesperson development
  • Crisis communications
  • Agency and budget management at scale
  • Fluent working with technical, developer-facing audiences and an AI-transition story

Skills

Required:Tech PR leadershipNarrative-led PRThought leadership and spokesperson developmentCrisis communicationsAgency and budget managementTechnical / developer audience fluency
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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