Global PR Manager
About Starburst
Starburst is the analytics engine for all your data. We provide the fastest, most efficient analytics engine for your data warehouse, data lake, or data mesh. We're on a mission to free our customers to see the invisible and achieve the impossible. We unlock the value of distributed data by making it fast and easy to access, no matter where it lives. Starburst queries data across any database, making it instantly actionable for data-driven organizations. With Starburst, teams can lower the total cost of their infrastructure and analytics investments, prevent vendor lock-in, and use the existing tools that work for their business. Today more than 150 leading organizations trust us to make better decisions faster.
Though Starburst has achieved a unicorn status and raised $414M in venture funding from top investors, we were founded in a rather unusual way with customers and revenue from the very beginning! We operate globally in 10 countries and are proud to be named a Best Place to Work. Come join our team of All-Stars!
About the role
We're looking for our first in-house PR hire. If you get a thrill out of featuring in top-tier publications, want to build a thriving PR strategy, and have prior experience managing PR agencies, this one's for you! This is a full-time remote role (pref based in USA) that would sit in the content marketing org. The right candidate will also have an opportunity to build the function from the ground up and play a pivotal role in brand awareness and category building.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and map out a Global PR strategy inline with the company objectives
- Work closely with executives on media interviews, byline opportunities, and other brand engagements
- Manage and source PR agencies and make sure they're set up for success
- Build, maintain, and leverage relationships with journalists and reporters
- Explore the paid PR route and write articles, blogs, bylines, emails, and pitches to support it
- Collaborate with marketing, product, and engineering teams on key messaging for press releases, announcements, media interviews, and events
- Source and work closely with customers and partners on media opportunities, speaking engagements, and award submissions
- Stay on top of industry news, trends, and competitor announcements to inform strategy
- Monitor for coverage and make sure social and web are up-to-date
- Help with brand building and category creation exercises, as needed
Qualifications:
- Extensive agency experience or PR/Corporate Communications experience at a SaaS company
- Experience building, managing, and/or running PR programs and strategies
- Strong on execution and timeline management
- Crisis management and journalist relations, a huge plus
- Excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills
- Agility, resourcefulness, and a problem solving mindset
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment; start-up experience preferred
If you're passionate about PR and want to make an impact at one of the fastest growing companies in the data space, we'd love to hear from you!
Benefits
At Starburst, we're constantly striving towards building a place where people come first by creating an environment of transparency, honesty, and respect. We take care of our global workforce by making sure employees enjoy competitive salaries and attractive stock grants, remote-friendly work options, access to quality and affordable insurance, and flexible and generous paid time off to start a family, travel, or just relax!
Headquartered in Boston, MA with offices in Warsaw, London, Palo Alto and Tel Aviv and employees across Europe and the Americas, we are committed to hiring where the talent is.
Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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