Senior Manager, Internal Communications

The Role in a Nutshell

At Chainguard, we believe that internal communications are critical to building a high-trust, high-performing, and aligned team. We’re hiring a Senior Manager of Internal Communications to shape and scale the way we communicate across the company. This role will drive strategic, clear, and engaging communication between leadership and employees. As a fully remote company, this function is essential to building a strong culture — and we consider our culture to be part of our brand.

You will own key communication channels including our Weekly All Hands, internal newsletter, and bi-annual company Summit content. And you’ll thrive in this role if you’re an empathetic and creative communicator who can balance strategy with flawless execution and cross-functional collaboration.

What You'll Do

• Lead company-wide internal communications strategy and execution, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment across all channels and moments.
• Own and continuously improve Weekly All Hands, including agenda curation, speaker preparation, logistics, and executive scripting.
• Produce and manage our weekly internal newsletter, keeping teams informed, aligned, and energized about company updates, wins, and strategic priorities.
• Drive content planning and messaging for our bi-annual in-person summits, including executive keynotes, ancillary content, and cross-functional activities.
• Develop executive communications in partnership with senior leaders — writing, editing, or advising on emails, scripts, FAQs, and change management.
• Build playbooks and frameworks for repeatable communications (e.g., strategy rollouts, product milestones, org changes, business system updates, and more).
• Uphold and evolve our tone of voice internally — communicating with warmth, clarity, humility, and purpose. (Oh, and humor. We do serious work, but don’t take ourselves too seriously.)
• Use data and feedback loops to measure the impact of internal communications and iterate accordingly.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in internal communications, executive communications, or related fields — ideally in a high-growth tech or remote-first environment.
• Exceptional writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex or sensitive topics into clear, human language.
• Executive presence and stakeholder management, with a track record of working closely with C-level leaders.
• High emotional intelligence and sound judgment — especially in high-stakes or ambiguous communication situations.
• Strong program management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple threads and deadlines with calm and focus.
• Experience running large-scale internal events, including All Hands and company summits.
• Comfort with distributed teams and async-first communications — we’re a remote company and that shapes how we operate.

Base Salary Range

$150,000 - $180,000 USD

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

Company Values

We live and breathe our company values:

• We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
• We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.