Global Head of PR & External Communications

JetBrains; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JetBrains in Amsterdam is seeking a senior leader to own and run company-level external communications, shaping a strategic narrative for global markets and protecting the company’s reputation. You will guide thought leadership, develop a spokesperson bench, coordinate across regions, and build an agile PR operating model including playbooks, calendars, and perception studies.

This is a senior execution-and-build role with cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, and executive

Qualifications

• 10+ years in tech PR with senior leadership experience.
• Built and led distributed PR teams across regions, with proven US results.
• Narrative-led PR – track record taking a defined strategic story to market, not press-release output.
• Thought leadership and spokesperson development.
• Crisis communications.
• Agency and budget management at scale.
• Fluent working with technical, developer-facing audiences and an AI-transition story.

Responsibilities

• Own and run company-level external communications.
• Protect and grow the company's reputation, take a defined strategic narrative to market, close the known US visibility gap, build thought leadership and a spokesperson bench, and stand up the PR operating model (playbooks, message houses, editorial calendar, perception studies).
• This is a senior execution-and-build role: the company narrative is set centrally; this leader runs the machine that delivers it globally.

Skills

Tech PR leadership

Distributed teams

Narrative PR

Thought leadership

Crisis communications

Agency management

AI/developer audience

Job description

JetBrains in Amsterdam is seeking a senior leader to own and run company-level external communications, shaping a strategic narrative for global markets and protecting the company’s reputation. You will guide thought leadership, develop a spokesperson bench, coordinate across regions, and build an agile PR operating model including playbooks, calendars, and perception studies.

This is a senior execution-and-build role with cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, and executive