Head of Corporate Marketing, LaunchDarkly
$182.6-295.4k
Salary dependent on location. + RSUs
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Feature management for software teams
Open for applications
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$182.6-295.4k
Salary dependent on location. + RSUs
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- (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
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Journalism, or a related field preferred
What the job involves
- As Head of Corporate Marketing, you'll lead the team responsible for translating our company strategy into a cohesive market narrative that influences customers, analysts, media, developers, and industry leaders
- You'll own our external communications strategy across public relations, analyst relations, social media, and executive communications while partnering closely with Product Marketing, Content Marketing, Demand Generation, and our executive team to ensure every external touchpoint reinforces the same story
- This role is ideal for someone who thinks beyond communications channels and is energized by shaping markets, influencing industry conversations, and building category leadership
- 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
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
Demonstrating its value to businesses, the platform is used by the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Recently it has seemed to focus on further scaling its growth as it develops towards being a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Co-founder, Executive Chair & CEO)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(Co-founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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