SUSE

SUSE

North America PR Manager

California, United States of America, USA · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 64 days ago
AWSLinuxSEOAR/VRResearchLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • The North American PR Manager is responsible for crafting and protecting the company's narrative across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
  • In 2026, a massive part of this role is AI-Augmented Reputation Management, using data to predict and mitigate sentiment shifts.
  • Category Creation: Use PR as a vehicle for category differentiation, establishing the company as a thought leader in emerging tech spaces through original research, byline articles, and podcast placements.

Responsibilities

  • Create and manage media programs at events like SUSECON, KubeCon North America and AWS re:Invent.
  • Monitor and report results to adjust PR strategies accordingly and maintain effective feedback loops with stakeholders.
  • Cultivate and maintain a Tier-1 network of traditional journalists, high-authority bloggers, and B2B influencers to secure high-value placements and "backlink-rich" earned media.
  • Partner with AR and content teams to influence the influencers, ensuring SUSE's portfolio is accurately represented in major firm reports and breaking into new media as well.
  • Partner Communications
  • Own relationships with strategic SUSE partners' communications teams to ensure SUSE is regularly showing up in their announcements and partners are excited about being in SUSE's announcements and events.
  • Proactively identify and cultivate "hero stories" within the SUSE partner ecosystem to turn technical implementations into mainstream-ready business success stories.
  • Partner with SEO/GEO, social media teams and PR agencies to detect emerging newsjacking opportunities and brand threats in real-time.
  • Manage priority paid content opportunities including advertorials and podcasts through work with influencers.
  • Collaborate with Digital Marketing to optimize earned media for search, leveraging high-authority media mentions to boost the company's domain authority and search rankings.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of proven experience in a similar B2B and/or software PR role, with a track record of creating impactful thought leadership strategies and driving brand awareness.
  • Further experience managing projects end-to-end as well as external partners and a brand's partner ecosystem to develop and drive joint stories and news required.
  • ability to insert SUSE into relevant news conversations swiftly
  • ability to understand GEO and adapt strategies accordingly

Nice to have

  • Flawless writing and editing skills.
  • Background in journalism preferred or samples of work to be provided on request.

Skills

  • Strong relationships with media and influencers.
  • Integrating AI into daily workflow.
  • Writing: Flawless writing and editing skills. Background in journalism preferred or samples of work to be provided on request.
  • Personal Attributes:
  • Cultural agility and nuance; understanding what works best in a North America market
  • Relentless newsworthiness instincts; ability to insert SUSE into relevant news conversations swiftly
  • Multitasker; Ability to manage multiple announcements at once
  • Data-fluent storytelling; ability to understand GEO and adapt strategies accordingly
  • Consistent and positive key-message pull through
  • Increase AI Visibility score
  • SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind.
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Compensation

  • If this role is filled in the United States of America, the starting base salary is expected to be between 100k and 187k.

Benefits

  • Develop and execute high-impact PR strategies that align with North American business goals and ensure coverage pulls through SUSE's key messages and increases its AI visibility score.

Company info

  • Always open. Our code, our culture, our opportunities. Leading open innovation without limits. We are SUSE.
  • SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable, and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSE® Linux Suite, SUSE® Rancher Suite, SUSE® Edge Suite, and SUSE® AI Suite. More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere - from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond.
  • SUSE puts the "open" back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. For more information, visit www.suse.com.
  • North America PR Manager
  • Always open.
  • Our code, our culture, our opportunities.
  • Leading open innovation without limits.
  • We are SUSE.
  • SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable, and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSE® Linux Suite, SUSE® Rancher Suite, SUSE® Edge Suite, and SUSE® AI Suite.
  • More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere - from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond.
  • SUSE puts the "open" back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow.
  • For more information, visit www.suse.com.
  • Job Description
  • Use PR as a vehicle for category differentiation, establishing the company as a thought leader in emerging tech spaces through original research, byline articles, and podcast placements.
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