Senior Manager, Executive Communication and PR (San Francisco Bay Area or Seattle)

About Neo4j:

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, helping them cure diseases, fight fraud, crush pandemics, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s getting humans to Mars. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.

  Our Vision: 

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.  

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

What this role will achieve

• Drives visibility strategy, messaging, and execution for key U.S.-based Neo4j global executives
• Manages top-of-funnel earned media awareness for the company, product, and category across the Americas with a particular focus on the U.S. market, and operating as part of a global communications team.

What this role would do

Develops and implements a comprehensive external executive visibility strategy for key US-based senior executives. Specifics:

• 60%: Builds and manages U.S. based global executive thought leadership and earned visibility. Assists executives in developing platforms, bylines, presentations, speeches, and public statements.
  • Serves as writer to U.S. based global senior executives, including driving the creation and delivery of compelling, executive-level earned speaking presentation materials (slides, scripts, messaging documents, and thought leadership).
  • Prepares these executives for media interviews and external earned speaking engagements.
  • Researches and monitors industry trends and developments to identify opportunities for enhancing executive communications.
  • Identifies high-value executive engagements that provide the optimal platform to reach our audiences, with compelling, data-rich content that informs and inspires them.
  • Manages earned speaking engagements and other high-level comms opportunities.
• 30%: Develops and executes communications strategies to drive Americas media coverage in close collaboration with global PR colleagues and local agencies. 
  • Manage contacts with local PR agencies to build excellent relationships with key media and secure media opportunities.
  • Manage corporate narrative, partnering with Marketing on storytelling strategy, and how that informs SEO, reputation management, and more.
  • Collaborates cross-functionally with marketing, product, commercial leads, and senior leadership to craft compelling messaging and storylines.
• 10%: Serves as an integrated part of Neo4j’s global communications and marketing team.
  • Collaborates with global comms colleagues (PR, AR, Social, Customer Advocacy) to ensure consistent and effective messages, coordinate media briefings, corporate and product launches, etc. 
  • Issues management and external comms response/support as part of global staffing model where needed.
  • Partners with Marketing and GTM colleagues on integrated external communications and content strategies.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Seattle, given proximity to key U.S. executives as well as the location of other global comms colleagues ensuring 24/7 operational excellence. This role requires domestic and international travel.

Requirements: the right candidate would be/have:

1. Exceptional writing, editing, verbal and visual organizational skills, with the ability to articulate a clear point of view on complicated issues in crisp, concise communications. We seek candidates with a track record of delivering results by producing high-quality, clear content, and who insist on the highest standards for quality and attention to detail while working on multiple projects simultaneously.  
2. Experience in B2B enterprise tech and emerging tech. Neo4j is a cate