About Neo4j:
Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding of their business and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 84% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.
At Neo4j, we’re proud to build the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers. These solutions have helped NASA get to Mars two years earlier, broke the Panama Papers for the ICIJ, and are helping Transport for London to cut congestion by 10% and save $750M a year. Some of our other notable customers include Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Novartis, UBS, and Walmart.
Neo4j experienced rapid growth this year as organizations looking to deploy generative AI (GenAI) recognized graph databases as essential for improving its accuracy, transparency, and explainability. Growth was further fueled by enterprise demand for Neo4j’s cloud offering and partnerships with leading cloud hyperscalers and ecosystem leaders. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Our Vision:
At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.
As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.
Role Overview:
Neo4j is seeking a seasoned Vice President of Global Communications to lead our worldwide communications strategy, shaping how the world understands Neo4j’s role as the graph database and intelligence platform, essential for the future of intelligent applications and AI/agentic systems. In this role, you will drive the company’s narrative across press, analysts, investors, customers, and employees, ensuring Neo4j is recognized as essential infrastructure for the AI era. You will lead a high-performing global communications organization spanning public relations, analyst relations, customer advocacy, organic social, thought leadership, executive communications, internal comms, crisis and issues management, and more. This role reports directly to the President of Technology & Chief Product Officer.
Responsibilities:
Global Communications Leadership
- Direct all global communications functions, including media and analyst relations, executive communications, public relations, thought leadership, corporate storytelling, internal communications, reputation and crisis management, and issues response.
- Drive a unified, high-impact narrative positioning Neo4j as the critical knowledge infrastructure for GenAI, enterprise agents, and intelligent applications.
Narrative Development & Market Positioning
- Collaborate with senior leadership to drive the company’s story and consistent messaging that elevates Neo4j as the graph database and intelligence platform and the default knowledge layer for agentic systems.
- Ensure technical precision and clarity in how Neo4j explains graph intelligence, agent architectures, vector and symbolic reasoning, and the convergence of structured knowledge with GenAI.
Thought Leadership & External Visibility
- Advance Neo4j’s thought leadership agenda across industries, functions, and global markets—placing Neo4j at the center of conversations about AI safety, knowledge grounding, agent reliability, and enterprise adoption of GenAI.
- Position Neo4j’s executives as influential industry voices on GenAI, graph intelligence, responsible AI, and enterprise digital transformation
Strategic Communications Execution
- Design and execute communications strategies that elevate awareness of Neo4j’s innovations, customer impact, and industry leadership as essential to agentic systems, decision automation, and knowledge-centric AI.
- Ensure messaging is precise, deeply informed by technical understanding, and translated into clear, concise, compelling language accessible to diverse audiences.
Reputation & Issues Management
- Lead crisis communications and reputation programs to anticipate, mitigate, and manage risk—protecting Neo4j’s brand as it scales its influence in AI-critical markets.
Executive Enablement & Alignment
- Coach and mentor executives and internal partners to ensure alignment on messaging, positioning, tone, and narrative discipline.
- Strengthen communication quality and rigor across the company, instilling a culture of precision and excellence.
Team Leadership & Operational Management
- Build, retain, and inspire a high-performing global communications team that reflects diversity of thought, experience, and background.
- Manage internal teams, contractors, and agency partners to performance, timelines, and budget.
Qualifications:
- Core Experience- A track record of progressive communications leadership roles in high-growth enterprise technology companies, preferable as data, AI, infrastructure, Saas, database, or platform technologies. Demonstrated ability to drive a global communications function aligned to aggressive business and brand outcomes.
- Technical Fluency & Precision Communication- Ability to comprehend and distill complex technical concepts, including graph data, knowledge representation, agentic systems, AI infrastructure, and GenAI, and translate them into clear, concise, compelling narratives for multiple audiences.
- Industry Relationships & Media Influence- Strong, established relationships with top-tier media, analysts, influencers, agencies, and industry stakeholders, especially within AI, enterprise software, and data infrastructure.
- Analytical & Strategic Thinking- Strong analytical and critical reasoning skills; able to use data and insights to inform strategy, shape narratives, assess impact, and optimize communications performance. Ability to apply GenAI tools and principles to improve content velocity, insights, and communications scalability.
- Leadership & Collaboration- Experience leading internal teams and external agencies in fast-paced, high-growth, or category-creating environments. Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally, influence without authority, and build strong partnerships across executive, product, engineering, and go-to-market teams.
- Operational Excellence- Strong project management skills; able to set accurate timelines, anticipate risks, and deliver high-quality work in dynamic environments. Comfortable working with urgency, ambiguity, and change—while maintaining clarity, calm, and narrative discipline.
Why Join Neo4j?
Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry globally, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.
- Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years.
- Raised the biggest funding round in database history ($325M Series F). Backed by world-class investors like Eurazeo, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Inovia Capital, Neo4j has raised over $600M in funding and is currently valued at over $2Bn. This puts Neo4j among the most well-funded database companies in history.
- 84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others.
- Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
- Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
- A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
- Neo4j was named as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems among 19 other recognized global DBMS vendors. Neo4j was also ranked as a Strong Performer among 14 top vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Vector Databases, Q3 2024.
Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.
One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.
Neo4j Values:
Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:
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(we)-[:ASSUME]->(:Intent {direction:’Positive’})
(we)-[:WELCOME]->(:Discussions {nature: ‘IntellectuallyHonest’})
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More information atwww.neo4j.com. 