Internal Communications Lead
SonarSource
Marketing & Communications
Austin, TX, USA
Posted on Feb 13, 2025
Who is Sonar?
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.
We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.
Why You Should Apply:
At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.
The Impact You Will Have:
We are seeking a highly motivated and organized Internal Communications Lead to join the Sonar team. This role will provide critical support to the Executive Office, working closely with the CEO and his Chief of Staff to ensure clear, consistent, and timely communication across the organization. You will help bring the company’s values, goals, and updates to life, ensuring all employees are informed, connected, and engaged. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong writing, creative and organizational skills with an interest in working in a dynamic, fast-paced technology company.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Support the development and distribution of company-wide communications, such as leadership updates, new initiatives, and important company news.
- Help maintain the "drumbeat" of key organizational announcements, ensuring messages are delivered consistently and effectively.
- Manage and maintain the company’s internal intranet platform, ensuring content is up-to-date, easily accessible, and aligned with the latest company priorities; clean up, reorganize, and update internal documentation as necessary to keep information relevant and accurate
- Work with internal teams to ensure that important resources, announcements, and updates are effectively posted and communicated
- Support the organization and execution of both virtual and in person all-hands meetings, team offsites, and other large-scale internal presentations
- Assist in preparing materials and slide decks for leadership, ensuring they are polished and aligned with company messaging
- Coordinate logistics for these events alongside our Internal Events Manager, including schedules, speakers, and follow-up communications
- Assist in the preparation and distribution of monthly company updates, ensuring that they are aligned with the company’s goals, culture, and voice.
- Work closely with leadership to gather insights and data that will be included in company reports.
- Provide ad-hoc communications support to the CEO / Executive team, ensuring that messages are clear, consistent, and delivered in an engaging manner to the appropriate audience
- Regularly assess the effectiveness of internal communication efforts and suggest improvements for increased clarity, engagement, and efficiency.
- Stay up-to-date with best practices in internal communications to bring fresh ideas to the team.
Internal Communication Coordination:
Intranet Content Management & Governance:
All-Hands and Company-Wide Presentations:
Monthly Company Updates/Newsletter & Reports:
Executive Office Support:
Continuous Improvement:
The Experience You Will Need:
- Experience in internal communications, corporate communications, or public relations, ideally in a fast-paced or tech-focused environment.
- Proven ability to create and edit engaging written and visual content for internal audiences.
- Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with a focus on clarity, tone, and impact.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
- Familiarity with internal communication tools (e.g., Slack, Google Meet, Intranet platforms).
- Basic graphic design skills and experience with video editing is a plus.
- A proactive, solution-oriented mindset, with a passion for driving employee engagement and fostering a positive internal culture.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate across different teams and levels of the organization, including our CEO
- A strategic thinker with the ability to align communications with business goals and values
- Creative, with an interest in storytelling and building engaging content that resonates with diverse audiences
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to prioritize tasks and manage competing demands
Why You Will Love It Here:
- Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
- Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
- We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
- We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
- As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
- We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
Benefits of Working With Sonar:
- Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package that is 90% paid by the company.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations.
- We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
- Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
- Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
We do not currently sponsor visa candidates in the US.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.