Sr. Director, Corporate Marketing

Job Description:

What We’re Building
Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!

If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.

Who We Are
We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.

How We Work
We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote

Little more about the team:
As our Head of Corporate Marketing, you will lead and scale the functions that shape Honeycomb’s public narrative, market conversations, and industry influence. Your remit will include PR, AR, thought leadership campaigns, executive and influencer communications, social media, customer advocacy, and community engagement. Reporting to the CMO as a member of the Marketing Leadership Team, this is a highly visible role that requires strategic vision, operational excellence, and energetic collaboration. You will work closely with executives and subject matter experts as well as the marketing, product, engineering, and people teams to ensure Honeycomb is a recognized, credible, and compelling market leader.

What you’ll do in the role:

Healthy and Inclusive team builder

• Build, mentor, and grow a diverse bench of corporate marketing professionalsSelect and manage world-class agencies and contractors to augment our internal team
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation in your team and across marketing

Strategic thinking that moves mountains

• Own quarterly thought leadership campaigns that shape critical market conversations and influence pipeline
• Support quarterly product launches and pipeline generation plays
• Develop an integrated corporate marketing plan aligned to our company growth goals
• Prepare playbooks for anticipated corporate and industry inflection points

Courageous communicator and motivator

• Craft and own a narrative that positions Honeycomb as the leading observability platform for modern engineering teams
• Continue to build upon our bold thought leadership and category creation DNA
• Translate complex technical topics into crisp and compelling stories in collaboration with product marketing, product, and engineering teams

Develops self and others

• Be a leader and force multiplier within the marketing department, ensuring we consistently raise our bar and achieve our goals
• Guide executives and subject matter experts through external engagements such as media interviews, analyst briefings, and speaking opportunities
• Tackle complex challenges with urgency, curiosity, and experimentation

Think like an owner

• Develop a deep understanding of our business, both technically and commercially
• Manage budget and prioritize resources in alignment with our strategy and goals
• Measure and report on the outcomes of corporate marketing programs, clearly demonstrating impact and ROI

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 10+ years leading corporate marketing programs for high-growth B2B SaaS companies
• Deep experience marketing to technical buyers and experts, ideally engineering leaders and developers
• Comfortable guiding and collaborating on a full range of corporate marketing activities, including PR, AR, campaigns, creative, advocacy, and community.
• A hard-won playbook for scaling brand awareness, preference, and share of voice on a global stage, with experience moving upmarket or supporting new GTM motions
• Strong storytelling capabilities to ensure Honeycomb rises above the noise in a crowded and complicated market
• Executive presence that influences both internal stakeholders (peers, leaders, SMEs) as well as external audiences (media, analysts, customers, developers)
• A data-driven mindset to ensure your work impacts both company results and our broader go-to-market strategy
• An open and direct collaboration style focused on win-win outcomes

Base Salary based on level of experience

$240,000 - $280,000 USD

What you'll get when you join the Hive:

• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
• Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
• A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance
• And much more...

Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.

Diversity & Accommodations:
We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.

We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.

As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.

Privacy Notice:
If you apply for a job at Honeycomb and your application is unsuccessful (or you withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Honeycomb will retain your information after your application for a period of time in accordance with local laws. We retain this information for various reasons, including in case we face a legal challenge in respect of a recruitment decision, to consider you for other current or future jobs at Honeycomb, and to help us better understand, analyze and improve our recruitment processes.

For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice.

If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact privacy@honeycomb.io. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims.