VP of PR/External Communications Lead at JetBrains (Amsterdam, Netherlands / London, United Kingdom)
JetBrains· Amsterdam, Netherlands / London, United Kingdom·
Role details
Job description
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 honored 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.
Major 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.
Required skills and 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
Preferred skills and qualifications
- Experience in an AI or developer-tools company during a positioning shift
- Existing tier-1 US tech media relationships
- Comfortable operating across a US/Europe time split
We are an equal opportunity employer
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Why work at JetBrains
- Hybrid work model: Flexible – work from office, home, or abroad for up to 30 days per year
- Culture of ownership: “Freedom to forge” – employees are trusted to run with ideas, make decisions, and take responsibility for results
- Merit-based environment: “Merit over everything” – promotions and recognition based on skill and impact, not politics
- Low turnover: Less than half the industry average, indicating high employee satisfaction
- Perks: Strong base salary, additional vacation days, learning & development budget (conferences, courses, language classes), relocation support, free meals and snacks, on-site gyms or sports club stipends, modern offices, internal events and hackathons
- Global diversity: 2,800+ nationalities represented (likely a typo – 2,800+ nationalities is unrealistic, but the company emphasizes diversity; actual number of nationalities is likely in the dozens)
- Hiring process: Transparent and thorough – includes recruiter interview, team interview, test assignment (for all roles), and final interview; no unnecessary pressure