PR&Communications Specialist

The opportunity: #

This vacancy is open only to Ukrainian residents within Ukraine.

We are seeking an experienced PR&Communications Specialist to join and expand our marketing team. This newly created role is designed to collaborate closely with the Head of Marketing and offers an opportunity to impact the company’s growth. As a PR&Communications Specialist, you will shape how we communicate and engage with our audience, taking ownership of responsibilities previously distributed among several team members. Your primary focus will be on developing and executing strategies to enhance brand awareness, showcasing our success stories and unique value to resonate with our target audience.

We are a data security solutions company, developing software products (open-source and proprietary), as well as providing custom bespoke solutions to innovative development teams around the world. Our mission is to make strong security methodologies and approaches convenient within modern infrastructures and, as the software is eating the world, help it eat the world responsibly, without leaking customer’s data.

Our software is well-known amongst security-aware teams, recommended by OWASP, and popular for easily solving complicated security challenges. Apart from building “off-the-shelf” solutions, we design custom security controls for novel problems.

We work in the B2B space, with customers such as power grid operators, payment processors, legal companies, million-user customer applications. We cater to young ambitious startups and well-established enterprises, who use our software and solutions as core part of their security arsenal. Our customers are smart, but extremely demanding.

Markets: EU, UK, USA.

You will: #

• Develop and execute communication strategies for target markets, targeting both clients and candidates
• Build relationships with media, professional communities, event organisers, clients’ and partners’ PR offices
• Manage external communications to ensure consistent messaging and a strong brand image
• Analyse media coverage, providing regular insights and recommendations for improvement
• Liaise with the media and handle interview requests, statements, and comments
• Plan and execute public relations campaigns to promote the company’s image and initiatives
• Create, edit, distribute and repurpose content across owned, earned and paid media

Expected Results: #

• Within 3 months: develop a comprehensive communication strategy and plan based on the existing company’s commercial and marketing strategy and outcomes from previous communications strategies
• Within 6-12 months: execute the plan and increase awareness

We would expect you to have: #

• 3+ years of experience in Communications, PR, or a similar role
• Upper-Intermediate English
• Experience with communication analytics and reporting
• Established network with media and professional communities
• Practical experience with international media
• Strong understanding of corporate communication principles, media relations, public relations
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills, with the ability to build and maintain professional relationships
• Creativity and strategic thinking with the ability to express thoughts clearly and engagingly
• Strong writing, and proofreading skills, with attention to detail

As a plus you’d have: #

• Experience in cybersecurity, military tech, defence or critical infrastructure
• Strong organisational and project management skills

Please note that you can be a perfect fit even if not everything we’ve outlined above applies to you. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask – everyone is unique.

Hiring Process: #

• Introductory interview
• Technical interview

We offer: #

Environment: #

• A sense of meaning and responsibility for those who seek purpose — we’re building “invisible texture of modern civilization” — bits of infrastructure finance, power grids, healthcare rely on, and we are trusted with very challenging aspects of it.
• Friendly and experienced team: smart people to learn from, great people to build with. Each of us is unique, we value and support each other.
• Trust: schedule, reporting, bureaucracy is kept at reasonable minimum. We hire smart people and trust them to do the right thing. When things go wrong, we help rather than punish.
• Friendly to humans: not just a formal vacation and sick leave quota. Feel like your mental or physical wellbeing needs care? Take some time off. Feel like working a few days from home? Sure. As long as you’re in line, we are here to support you when you’re not.

Growth: #

• Team that facilitates internal learning and growth all the time.
• Management attention to help you improve upon your personal goals (through 1:1s and mentoring).

Benefits: #

• Competitive compensation with flexible bonus scheme.
• Sick leaves, 21 business days for vacation per year, extra days off — according to the agreements and laws.
• Conferences, books, courses — we encourage learning and sharing with the community.

Not sure but considering? Talk to us. #

If you see yourself fit but a few things are off — don’t hesitate to talk anyway. It might be that your unique combination of skills and knowledge would be perfectly fitting for our environment, but we both just don’t know it yet.

Why work at Cossack Labs? #

Some companies prioritise talent and value proposition, while others understand business and would take any job that pays well. However, only few companies choose to specialise in difficult tasks as their primary competency.

We take on difficult jobs, we take mission-critical software and make it mission-secure.

• Virtualise OT infrastructure securely in the presence of active adversaries, preventing them from accessing the susceptible nation-wide network? ✓ Check.
• Provide immediate application security and infrastructure security guidance for mission-critical application that will be deployed on thousands of devices on the front-line tomorrow? ✓ Check.
• Validate counter-reverse engineering protections for power grid hardware to ensure that previously air-gapped environments were safe to open up to the outside world? ✓ Check.
• Ensure that software platforms for exchange of sensitive documents actually have a top-tier SSDLC programme that supplements missing capabilities and builds out processes? ✓ Check.

We operate as a lean core team and a diverse network of experts. The finest people you may work with include PhDs in information security and cryptography, infosec community standard contributors, in-depth experts in rare security topics, and business-centric security engineers with broad experiences. Some of your teammates have worked in infosec since the 1990s and saw the industry grow from nothing. Some of them helped write standards that govern security around you. Maybe someone’s work actually keeps the lights up while you’re reading this?

Our core engineers go through extensive indoctrination and training to become disciplined, stringent, self-sufficient field unit who owns the outcomes rather than just showing up for work.

As you grow into the Cossack Labs engineer, you’ll work on slow-paced projects to learn and improve, internal projects to innovate and build tools, and of course a few fires, because no smooth sea can make a skilled sailor. You’ll discover what works for you and what you need to learn.

We help innovators who are launching new venues of civilisation while facing significant security risks in becoming more secure and resilient. Customers trust us to achieve their business goals, not merely address gaps someone else has to identify first.

If this is a challenge you’re up to, let's talk!