Public Relations Manager, Proton
12 Month Fixed-Term Contract
+ Equity
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Open for applications
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- At least five years of communications or PR experience. Strong preference for agency experience with tech clients or in-house in a tech company
- Expertise in both B2C and B2B communications
- Experience building and owning relationships with journalists and acting as a company spokesperson
- A strong network of tech, business and consumer media contacts
- Crisis management experience and ability to juggle multiple fast-paced projects and manage competing deadlines
- The ability to work independently and take ownership of projects as well as proactively identifying and pursuing PR opportunities
- The ability to develop strategic market specific campaigns within the context of an international and multidisciplinary team
What the job involves
- As our Communications Manager, UK (Maternity Cover), you will have the opportunity to represent one of the most forward thinking tech companies in the world
- You will be responsible for driving awareness and signups to Proton’s products (currently encrypted email, calendar, drive storage, VPN and password management) and awareness of Proton as an organization through profiles and interviews in top tier media outlets
- The role is available for a fixed time period of 12 months starting in August 2025
- Proton is rebuilding the internet with privacy as the default setting, giving users the tools they need to protect their data and decide for themselves who they share their personal information with
- As the world’s largest secure email platform, Proton has been at the forefront of the global privacy debate
- This role will give you the chance to help shape the future of this debate and bring the conversation to a mainstream audience
- This role will require you to operate with a high degree of autonomy and thrive in an independent setting
- You will have the opportunity to take ownership of Proton’s Communications strategy in the UK
- You will work alongside colleagues across multiple teams to launch integrated communications campaigns that raise Proton’s profile, increase sign ups and conversions, and drive positive regulatory and legislative change
- Proton’s Communications team is spread across the US, France, UK, Germany and Switzerland
- Communications Managers typically take ownership of specific markets as well as developing specialist knowledge of specific product areas within the business
- Develop new, integrated communications campaigns for the UK in collaboration with Proton’s product, engineering, content, social, marketing, and public policy teams
- Develop and deploy communications campaigns focused on Proton’s product suite, driving growth and helping the business hit its commercial goals
- Generate headlines in UK mainstream, consumer and tech media in line with Proton’s narrative and communications strategy, positioning Proton as the leading authority on privacy on the internet
- Build and maintain Proton’s stakeholder maps and own relationships with top tier UK media outlets
- Drive support for Proton’s policy positions on issues ranging from antitrust and competition to encryption and data protection through targeted media coverage
- Engage with conference and events organizers to secure speaker slots for Proton representatives
- Protect Proton’s reputation with timely responses to media enquiries on a range of technical and policy based subjects
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
Leadership
Andy Yen
(CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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