Experience building or rebuilding a communications function in a growth-stage infrastructure, developer, or data company.
Proven track record of securing stories in tier-one business and technology media.
Direct experience working with a CEO and executive team to shape their messaging and priorities.
Strong media instincts with a focus on themes, arcs, and audience engagement.
Player-coach mentality with hands-on writing and editing skills.
Technical proficiency and credibility with engineers and developers.
Experience managing agency relationships and determining in-house capabilities.
Analytical skills to track media impact and adjust strategies accordingly.
Responsibilities
Define and develop ClickHouse's core narrative and communications strategy.
Establish and manage the communications infrastructure, including an announcement calendar and press materials.
Cultivate press and media relationships to broaden ClickHouse's visibility beyond tech media.
Create executive platforms for founders and leaders, optimizing their public engagements.
Shape quarterly releases and major launches for maximum media attention and consistency.
Set standards for public communications, ensuring quality and consistency in messaging.
Hire and lead a growing communications team, maintaining alignment across narrative and social strategies.
Benefits
Flexible work environment with remote-friendly options across 25+ countries.
Employer contributions towards healthcare.
Equity options for all new team members.
Flexible time off policies, with generous entitlements in various countries.
USD$500 allowance for home office setup for remote employees.
Opportunities for in-person connection through global company gatherings.
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Director, Story & Communications to build that function from the ground up. You'll own the company narrative: what ClickHouse should be known for, how the platform story gets told above the level of features, and how the proof we generate adds up to a thesis. And you'll build the machine that carries it into the world: the announcement calendar, press and media relationships across technology and business media, and executive platforms for our founders and leaders. This is a build role and a player-coach role. You won't inherit a team; you'll hire one as the function grows, directing our agency partners in the meantime and staying in the work yourself. You'll report to the VP of Global Marketing and work closely with the executive team, product marketing, and the people closest to our customers.
What You Will Be Doing
Define what ClickHouse should be known for and turn it into a rolling narrative and communications strategy that the marketing and executive teams work from
Build the communications machine: announcement calendar and tiering, press materials, holding statements, a reporter cadence, and launch amplification, directing agency partners and holding them to outcomes
Own press and media relations across technology and business media, taking the ClickHouse story beyond the tech press and re-educating the market on the full platform
Build executive platforms for our founders and leaders: the themes each owns, the moments and formats worth their time, and a clear way to evaluate inbound podcast, mainstage, and sponsored event opportunities
Shape quarterly release moments and major launches so they earn attention and show up consistently across press, social, community, and the field
Set the standard for how ClickHouse sounds in public: voice, quality bar, and the discipline that every published claim, number, and proof point is approved, current, and consistent
Hire and lead the team as the function grows, and build the planning and review rhythm that keeps narrative, communications, and social aligned
What You Bring Along
Experience building or rebuilding a communications function at a growth-stage infrastructure, developer, or data company
A record of landing stories in tier-one business media as well as technology press, with the relationships and news judgment to do it again
Experience working directly with a CEO and executive team: shaping their points of view, preparing them, and declining opportunities not worth their time
Media-company operator instincts: you think in themes, arcs, and audiences
Player-coach approach: you write and edit yourself, give useful feedback, and set the bar by example
Comfort with a technical product and a technical audience, including credibility with engineers and developers
Experience directing agencies to outcomes, with judgment about what belongs in-house
Analytical grounding: you track what is landing, form a view on why, and use it to decide where to focus
Perks
Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
A USD$500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee.
Global Gatherings - We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
