Responsibilities

• Partner with executive leadership to operationalize LaunchDarkly's corporate narrative.
• Increase LaunchDarkly's share of voice and thought leadership across developer and engineering leader audiences technology executives, analysts, and industry influencers.
• Ensure consistent messaging across communications, product launches, thought leadership, analyst engagements, and executive visibility.
• Build repeatable processes that align communications efforts around a unified strategic story rather than individual functional priorities.
• Identify emerging market conversations and flag opportunities for LaunchDarkly engagement..
• Lead and develop a team of three spanning Public Relations, Analyst Relations, and Social Media, creating a high-performing organization focused on influence, quality, and business impact.
• Manage thought-leadership programs for the CEO, CTO, SVP of Product and other key executives to position LaunchDarkly leaders as trusted authorities on software delivery, AI, and modern engineering.
• Identify speaking opportunities, contributed content, media engagements, and strategic platforms that reinforce our market position.
• Support analyst relations efforts with Gartner, Forrester, IDC, RedMonk, and other key firms by ensuring consistent, accurate messaging on LaunchDarkly's products and differentiation..
• Define and track communications metrics across share of voice, analyst perception, executive visibility, and market influence and surface insights to inform strategy.

Requirements

• Typically brings 15+ years of experience in corporate communications, product communications, corporate marketing, or related leadership roles within high-growth B2B software companies and 5 years of leadership experience..
• Demonstrated success building integrated communications strategies that strengthen market positioning, thought leadership, and executive visibility.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing communications organizations across multiple disciplines, including public relations, analyst relations, executive communications, and/or social media.
• Strong point of view on how modern B2B technology companies build market influence beyond traditional public relations.
• Exceptional storytelling, messaging, and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into compelling market narratives.
• 20% travel required
• Must be authorized to work in US / Canada (no visa sponsorship / relocation)
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Journalism, or a related field preferred.

Preferred

• (Preferred) Background in developer tools, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, or enterprise software serving technical audiences.
• (Preferred) Experience supporting category creation, major market repositioning efforts, or new product category launches.
• (Preferred) Experience partnering closely with Product Marketing and executive leadership to shape corporate positioning and thought leadership.