Internal Communications & Engagement Specialist, Couchbase
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Operational data platform for AI
Job no longer available
Operational data platform for AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how organizations develop, deploy, and run modern applications wherever they are.
Role
Who you are
- Experience as a communications & events professional in a similar role
- Strong knowledge of internal communications leading practice and principles, preferably at a public company
- Proficiency in creating highly engaging content across various media, tailored by audience
- Experience with events, content and communications platforms
- Ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to project manage communication and events schedules
- Proactive and accountable, with the ability to work independently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability and desire to work in a fast-growing, globally distributed, dynamic environment
What the job involves
- Couchbase is looking for a hands-on Internal Communications & Engagement Specialist. You will Create Value and your impact will Be Valued
- You will be a culture carrier, and a role model of best in class internal communication practice. You will have a view across our organization, helping our employees stay connected, engaged and informed
- You will directly impact the future of the “world class team” who work at Couchbase and solidify Couchbase's reputation as an "employer of choice."
- This role reports to the Director of Talent Development on Couchbase’s People & Workplace Team. Come help us Make Tomorrow Better Than Today, Start Now
- Establish communication best practice for a distributed organization, aligned with our company values, goals and priorities
- Collaborate cross-functionally, in particular with our Communications and Marketing team, on company wide internal comms and events, ensuring a planned and considered approach
- Manage a company events calendar that provides visibility into what's on and when
- Establish guidelines & best practice for internal events to help drive engagement, and spark joy!
- Support the production of our Company All Hands
- Drive employee engagement by creating/curating engaging and informative content for company wide internal communications (including slack and email updates, video content, and more)
- Drive consistency in approach to authoring and sharing content, including assessing the timing and effectiveness of functional communications/newsletters
- Partner with Talent Development to enable employees with targeted communication training, partnering with preferred external vendors as needed
- Measure, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of internal communications initiatives, events & tools, and iterate our strategy based on data and feedback
- Partner with vendors to optimize the use of current communications, content and events tools
- Become a trusted advisor to our People & Workplace leadership team, e-staff, other stakeholders across the business
Our take
Critical functions for digital businesses such as computing and storage have become cheaper by orders of magnitude with the advent of cloud computing. However, these businesses still face the challenge of architecting their services under this paradigm. Couchbase’s NoSQL database is designed to help organizations build scalable, distributed systems that take advantage of cloud-native infrastructure.
The company's major bets on Kubernetes, mobile and NoSQL have paid off too. With many large enterprises now treating Couchbase as mission-critical infrastructure, a trajectory that culminated because of ts 2021 IPO. While it operates in a highly competitive database market, the company has continued to grow post-IPO and is now positioning itself around the next shift in enterprise architecture: AI-native applications.
The recent launch of Couchbase AI Services reflects an effort to unify operational data, vector search and model hosting within a single platform, reducing the complexity that often prevents generative AI and agent-based systems from moving beyond proof-of-concept. By embedding governance, validation and security controls directly into the data layer, Couchbase is aiming to make its database a core foundation for production AI workloads.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2020
$105m
SERIES G
Mar 2016
$30m
SERIES F
Total funding: $251m
Company HQ
Cypress, San Jose, CA
Leadership
BJ Schaknowski
(CEO)Prior to joining Couchbase in 2025, BJ was the CEO of symplr. He also served as the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Vertafore and as an SVP of Marketing, Sales & Services at LexisNexis Software Solutions.
Veronica Curran
(CPO)Veronica Previously founded Magnolia People Solutions where she served as a Managing Partner for nearly 2 years. Prior to that, she was the Chief People and culture Officer at SmartBear and the CPO at Alumni Ventures Group.
Gopi Duddi
(CTO)Gopi joined Couchbase in 2022 as an SVP of Engineering, moving into the role of CTO in 2025. Prior to this, he spent 10 years at Amazon AWS, joining in 2012 as a Senior Manager of Database Services before moving into the role of GM. He also spent 7 years at IBM In various Managerial roles.
Josh Harbert
(CMO)Josh is also the co-founder and President of SustainableIT.org. Previously, he served as the CMO at Delphix and the VP of Marketing at Tanium and Qumulo.
Amir Jafari
(CFO)Amir is also the CFO/Head of Finance & Operations at Blend. Previously, he served as the CFO at Plastiq and Reputation.com.
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