Communications Specialist

Job Description

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

As a Communications Specialist at Sonar, you will be a key driver in supporting our entire communications function globally. This is a versatile role designed for a high-energy communicator—ideally someone with PR agency experience looking to move in-house—who can seamlessly pivot between social media management, internal engagement, and external brand storytelling. This role will work with and support our existing communications function. You will help shape the company’s voice across all communications, social platforms, and brand channels, ensuring our message resonates with a technical audience. By blending creativity with analytical rigor, you will execute strategies that drive engagement, brand awareness, and advocacy within the developer community.

What You Will Do Daily:

• Support the Communications Ecosystem: Partner with the broader communications, creative, field, and developer relations teams to ensure a cohesive brand narrative across all touch points.
• Social Media Management: Support the day-to-day execution of social media activities, including copy production, content creation, and managing responses to inbound community engagement.
• Content & Storytelling: Collaborate with content and product marketing to develop compelling stories, thought leadership pieces, blogs, and case studies that articulate Sonar’s value proposition.
• Brand Governance: Assist in enforcing brand guidelines to maintain consistency across internal and external communications and marketing materials.
• Reputation Management: Help manage and enhance third-party listings and monitor digital brand performance against industry peers.
• Internal Engagement: Work with our internal communications team to drive internal employee engagement initiatives to promote the Sonar brand from the inside out.
• Performance Tracking: Monitor and report on KPIs for communications initiatives to measure awareness, sentiment, and engagement.

The Experience You Will Need:

• Tech Industry Expertise: 5+ years of experience working with B2B brands in the technology sector, with a specific preference for those who have worked with AI and/or developer tools.
• Agency Background: A background in a PR or communications agency is highly desirable, showing an ability to manage multiple work streams and fast-paced deadlines.
• AI-First Mentality: An AI-first approach to drafting and editing content, with a strong understanding of how LLM-first search results impact modern brand visibility.
• Technical Fluency: A passion for software products and the ability to engage authentically in technical discussions with developers.
• Exceptional Communication: Strong writing, editing, and listening skills with a talent for building cross-functional relationships.
• Agility: A “can-do” attitude and the ability to support context-switching across multiple tasks effectively.
• Autonomy: Capable of making informed decisions independently while remaining a collaborative team player who values feedback.

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.
• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 25 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays.
• We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
• 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.
• Monthly catered events, and team events

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 support visa candidates in the US.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.