Senior PR/Communications Manager

CloudBees enables enterprises to deliver scalable, compliant, and secure software, empowering developers to do their best work.

Seamlessly integrating into any hybrid and heterogeneous environment, CloudBees is more than a tool—it’s a strategic partner in your cloud transformation journey, ensuring security, compliance, and operational efficiency while enhancing the developer experience across your entire software development lifecycle. It allows developers to bring and execute their code anywhere, providing greater flexibility and freedom through fast, self-serve, and secure workflows.

CloudBees supports organizations at every step of their DevSecOps journey, whether using Jenkins on-premise or transitioning software delivery to the cloud. We’re helping customers build the future, today.

About The Role:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Communications Manager to join the team and lead our corporate PR efforts. This person will be responsible for managing high-impact, integrated B2B media relations campaigns to support our overall brand and business objectives.

A successful candidate for this role should have in-depth media relations expertise, including but not limited to, securing top-tier, technology, and trade press opportunities, driving influential stories from beginning to end, executing press strategy for CloudBees and industry events, and engaging traditional and non-traditional influencers, and working with customers to develop compelling narratives. The role will work across multiple teams, resulting in a steady cadence of press coverage, engagement, and awareness of CloudBees’ transformational impact in the industry.

A high performer with a growth mindset, who is both collaborative and autonomous, the ideal candidate will have strong relationships with key media, and experience managing and working with external agencies.

What You’ll Do:

• Creating and executing proactive, creative, and integrated PR campaigns that align with CloudBees’s category and product leadership goals
• In partnership with PR agency, developing a thought leadership program to secure speaking engagements and interviews for key executives at industry conferences, webinars, and podcasts.
• Developing high-level media strategies that align resources and create a cadence of press opportunities that elevate the CloudBees story with reporters
• Managing complex, fast-moving, and unexpected communications challenges with high judgment and professionalism
• Managing relationships with reporters and influencers across tech and DevOps industry
• Developing stories with customers and partners about their journey to CloudBees and use of CloudBee’s services
• Cultivating relationships with customer PR teams, top-tier business, tech, and trade reporters
• Crafting compelling story ideas, content, and messaging
• Leading media programs around CloudBees-owned and industry/customer/partner events
• Managing PR agencies

What The Role Requires:

• 8+ years of technology PR experience.
• Outstanding attention to detail, understanding of technology, and ability to communicate complex topics effectively
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment and willingness to roll up sleeves to get the job done
• An entrepreneurial spirit, including ability to work independently and autonomously
• Creativity and bias for action
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Strategic thinking, analytical and organizational skills, and excellence in tactical execution
• Background in working with open source communities.
• Experience working with PR agencies and contractors.

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with DevOps / DevSecOps and/or engineering-driven initiatives.
• Understanding of the software development landscape.

We’re invested in you!

We offer generous paid time off to allow our employees time to rest, recharge and to be present with family and friends throughout the year.At CloudBees, we truly believe that the more diverse we are, the better we serve our customers. A global community like Jenkins demands a global focus from CloudBees. Organizations with greater diversity—gender, racial, ethnic, and global—are stronger partners to their customers. Whether by creating more innovative products, or better understanding our worldwide customers, or establishing a stronger cross-section of cultural leadership skills, diversity strengthens all aspects of the CloudBees organization.In the technology industry, diversity creates a competitive advantage. CloudBees customers demand technologies from us that solve their software development, and therefore their business problems, so that they can better serve their own customers.

CloudBees attributes much of its success to its worldwide work force and commitment to global diversity, which opens our proprietary software to innovative ideas from anywhere. Along the way, we have witnessed firsthand how employees, partners, and customers with diverse perspectives and experiences contribute to creative problem-solving and better solutions for our customers and their businesses.