Senior Public Relations Manager, Illumio
$165-180k
+ Equity. Salary dependent on location
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
Job no longer available
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$165-180k
+ Equity. Salary dependent on location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable every organization to realize a future without high-profile breaches.
Role
Who you are
- This is a key role that requires a strategic thinker, a strong communicator, and a collaborative team player
- Experience developing and driving PR strategy across multiple audience segments and regions
- Cybersecurity familiarity highly desired
- A track record of good judgment and decision-making in positions with significant responsibility
- Highly autonomous and able to independently identify high-value projects and drive them to completion
- Excellent time management skills and demonstrated ability to deliver quality work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to think and act both tactically and strategically
- Comfortable working with cross-functional teams across multiple time zones
- Excellent organizational and project management skills, and solid track record in developing technology public relations campaigns
- Strong writing and editing skills
- Ability to develop informed opinions on relevant topics
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, English or equivalent and 15+ years of PR or communications experience in a high-tech PR agency or software technology company
- Some travel required
What the job involves
- You will be challenged to do your best work and be given the flexibility and freedom to achieve your goals. Bring your game-changing, category-building approaches to solving customer problems to the team and help us dominate
- The Opportunity As the Sr. Public Relations Manager you’ll play a key role on the Illumio Corporate Communications team
- You will provoke interest and demand and build awareness in Illumio as a leader in Zero Trust cybersecurity
- This role is responsible for proactive, strategic public relations to communicate and promote our value proposition and to build awareness of Illumio in the market
- This is a highly visible role where you will lead our agency relations to make a tangible global impact
- You’ll collaborate across Marketing, Product Management, Sales and will interface with key business leaders as well as the executive leadership team
- Leading strategic public relations planning and execution to build awareness and drive proactive media coverage on a global scale
- Developing press releases, media outreach strategies, and acting as the main point of contact for inbound reporter requests
- Working cross-functionally with the Product Marketing, Sales, and Engineering teams to discover and drive stories that are relevant to media and further Illumio’s goals
- Writing and editing compelling content for bylines, contributed content and paid content partnerships
- Leading development of company spokespeople for media engagements specifically focused on the security and cloud markets
- Possessing a strong knowledge of cybersecurity solutions and industry landscape
- Day-to-day management of multiple PR agencies across the globe
- Having media relationships and a familiarity of tech, business, channel, and cybersecurity media landscape
- Owning internal reporting and tracking
- Staying current on company, industry, competitor information and news trends in order to best organize and present company content
Our take
Cybersecurity remains an ongoing battle, with evolving cyberthreats and ever-more determined cybercriminals, and major data breaches such as the SolarWinds hack have the potential to cause widespread disruption. Illumio is taking a different approach to most of the mainstream security companies, with a process called "microsegmentation". This makes it easier to guard companies from security breaches, and contain any breaches that occur.
Detection of viruses is no longer considered sufficient to keep companies and individuals safe. Illumio takes a “zero trust” approach, in which everything is viewed as suspicious, a similar approach to that which is used by the White House. The company operates at the cutting edge of microsegmentation, focusing on protecting cloud datacenters and workloads. With more and more companies moving to the cloud, this approach is crucial.
Illumio also protects endpoints, partnering with big players such as Citrix, Amazon Web Services, and Splunk. A collaboration with Appgate, a Zero Trust secure access company, delivers the industry's first integrated Zero Trust Network Access and Segmentation solution, which can reduce risk across hybrid infrastructure, and proves Illumio's dedication to innovating the space. Additionally, the company announced a Federal Risk and Authorisation Management Program (FedRAMP), which is tailored to assist federal agencies in reducing risk.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$225m
SERIES F
Feb 2019
$65m
SERIES E
Total funding: $563.7m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage
- Health and Dependent Savings Accounts
- Life and Disability Programs
- Paid Parental Leave
- Voluntary Benefit Programs
- Company Sponsored Wellness Program
- Wellness Reimbursement Program
- Retirement Savings
- Equity Opportunities
- Paid time off and Paid Holidays
- Employee Incentive Program
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
Andrew Rubin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Started in Business Development, as an Analyst at VoiceNet Communications, and as a Director at VoiceNet. Worked at Cymtec Systems for over 8 years, promoted from VP of Sales to CEO. Seed Investor in Tory Burch, and Powermat. Current Strategic Advisor to Menlo Security, and Bolt.
PJ Kirner
(Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor)Studied Computer Science at Cornell. Worked as an Engineer Manager for over 6 years at Trilogy. Software Architect at Funkware for over 3 years. Was Principal Systems Engineer at Cluster File Systems. Distinguished Engineer for over 5 years at Juniper Networks. Was CTO of Cymtec Systems.
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