Communications Officer

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar’s vision is to bring fairness, freedom and fraternity to the world of travel. 

BlaBlaCar was created in 2006 with one dream in mind: fill the millions of empty seats on the road to create an efficient, affordable and friendly way to travel. Today, our global, trusted community counts 75 million members in 22 countries, enabling a smarter, large scale and truly sustainable transport network. 

Born from a simple idea of people sharing their rides, BlaBlaCar’s ambition is to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility. We offer long distance carpooling service, a commuting carpooling service, and since 2018  a marketplace bus service too. A filled bus emits one third of the emissions per passenger kilometer as an average car. So we want to fill those seats too! 

In 2018, 84 million travellers used BlaBlaCar globally saving 1.6 million tons of CO2. Meanwhile we enabled human connections, bringing people closer together in more ways than one with 87% of members say that carpooling is an enriching experience. 

BlaBlaCar offers a truly and unique international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices in Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw. English is the official spoken language across BlaBlaCar. We are privately-held and founder-led. Our team of 500 employees is entrepreneurial, passionate, and fundamentally mission-driven. 

Job Description

Why join us?

You will be joining a small team of communication enthusiasts who work closely with BlaBlaCar’s Founders & management team to articulate BlaBlaCar’s vision and strategy to internal and external audiences globally. The Corporate Communications team builds content that conveys our values, vision, impacts and strategic direction, and gives a face to the company. This role is a great opportunity to be exposed to the strategic decisions of a fast-growing scale-up and to articulate them to key stakeholders.  

What you will directly contribute to

Your main mission will be to fully grasp BlaBlaCar’s positioning and strategy and derive it into different types of content for various company’s stakeholders (media, partners, public affairs, recruitment, internal, etc.) .  By doing so, you will help build a consistent and engaging message about our activity, establish the BlaBlaCar’s employee brand, support the large-scale behavioural change towards shared mobility, and provide a face to the company.

Missions:

- Content creation for Founder presentations (eg: leading sector conferences, “Team-All communications”, etc.). This includes building the narrative with the Head of Corporate Communications, creating great slides to convey complex concepts, and spearheading the creation of visuals or video contents with the brand team where needed.

- Copyrighting in English and French for bylines by the company’s management, studies, book contributions, LinkedIn articles, etc. 

- Create and establish our Employer Branding strategy, capturing and promoting all that's great about who we are and what we do. Turning job descriptions into job ads, creating editorial lines for our social media channels, community management, manage recruitment campaigns, creation of our new career website.

-Showcase that BlaBlaCar is an attractive Tech workplace. Organizing and participating in  tech events (hackathons, meetups, recruitment events, academic events…). Promoting content creation on different tech channels: Medium, BlaBlaTech Twitter, open source contributions and encouraging other contributors across the company. 

- Proposing and organising events about the mobility ecosystem, building related content, and communicating about them across relevant channel.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful 

  • Passionate about corporate communications 
  • Strong analytical mind with the ability to transform complex messages into compelling messages
  • Ability to understand and create content about the company strategy & sector trends
  • Strong experience creating different types of communications (articles, posts, slides, etc.) across channels (PR, social media, conferences, events)
  • Knowledge and understanding of Tech ecosystem and trends, comfortable with engineering linguo
  • Excellent copywriting skills in both French and English
  • Fluent in French & English, other languages would be a plus
  • Entrepreneurial and a relentless doer
  • Humble, structured, organized, and passionate about the impact of the company and this role
  • Enjoy working as a team-player and learning from others
  • Experience using social media, and interest in building the diffusion plan for the content created 

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!

  • Location: Paris HQ 

  • Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)

  • Compensation: Competitive package based on experience 

What we offer all of our employees

  • The opportunity to have a meaningful impact, building a CO2-saving global travel network enabling strong human connections too. 

  • A strong “Fun & Serious” company culture  

  • An international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices around the world (Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw)

  • State-of-the-art office spaces, in a great location

  • A start-up spirit grounded in agility & teamwork 

  • Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment 

  • Bi-Weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn from each other

  • Weekly Tech Demos, so that we’re all up to date with where our product stands

And some other great perks!

  • Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”. 

  • Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend

  • Possibility to work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad for a week once a year (BlaBlaSwap)

  • The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment (for Tech only) 

  • Opportunity to attend Tech conferences in France and Europe (for Tech only)

What is next 

If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below without forgetting to upload your resume in English (PDF format) nor to answer our questions in English as well. Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.

You can expect us to review your application within the following 3 weeks. If your application fits our requirements, we will invite you to a video interview, several on-site interviews and a case study will follow.