Vice President of Content and Communications, LaunchDarkly
$248-290k
+ Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Feature management for software teams
Job no longer available
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$248-290k
+ Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a passion for aligning content and communication initiatives to awareness and revenue goals and will be held accountable for KPIs and quotas accordingly
- You have proven success with building growth-minded, collaborative teams who work well with related product, growth, and creative teams to envision, execute, and measure content programs that fuel demand and position LaunchDarkly as a thought leader
- Significant content marketing and communications leadership experience in tech - SaaS experience preferred
- Results focused with the ability to evaluate and prioritize initiatives based on context and expected ROI
- The ability to unite various content stakeholders to tell streamlined, impactful stories
- Creative thinker with outstanding interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- Prior success leading teams through market change and periods of high growth
- Experience in a successful startup or emerging growth technology company that markets to developers is an asset
- Empowers teams, develops employees, and creates an environment where team members are encouraged to take risks and innovate to improve programs, processes, personal skills, and customer experience
- Customer-focused, collaborative, self-aware leader who models and encourages trust, transparency, positivity, and accountability
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is looking for an experienced VP of Content and Communications to help lead and expand our strategic storytelling, customer education, and industry thought leadership
- Lead a team of content marketing, PR, social media, and video experts who focus on serving our company and community through thoughtful messaging and educational assets
- Develop a comprehensive strategy for best-in-class content to guide the team as we grow our customer content and introduce new content programs to serve our existing and new target markets
- Create unique and compelling company, category, and product/technology narratives to continue to raise our profile and elevate our brand in the market
- Build a strategic Content Marketing Team that will deliver compelling and data-driven editorial and customer content
- Create editorial consistency across all LaunchDarkly customer and prospect touchpoints
- Establish and lead overall external communications strategy—inclusive of public relations, media relations, crisis communications, and social media/community functions
- Develop and advance the strategy and voice for executive communications; including speaking engagements, media interviews, social media channels, and internal communications
- Drive our earned media program across trade, business, and tech publications to maximize LaunchDarkly’s share of voice and brand recognition
- Report on performance of team initiatives to executive leadership
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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