Communications Lead
We are looking for a communications lead to contribute to the future growth of the Sovereign Tech Agency.
The Sovereign Tech Agency operates at the intersection of open source technology, digital infrastructure, and policy — in Germany, Europe, and beyond. Our work touches on fundamental questions: who controls the digital infrastructure underpinning AI, cyber resilience, and economic competitiveness? How do we ensure that these foundational technologies remain open, secure, and sustainable?
This position is for someone who understand that communications is not a support function but a strategic lever for shaping technology, innovation, and digital policy. In this role, you will shape how the Sovereign Tech Agency is understood and perceived and ensure our issues are visible, politically relevant, and land effectively with the right audiences. In day-to-day operations, you will turn our content, programs, and strategic initiatives into clear and compelling communications that resonate with policymakers, media, industry, and open source communities. You will help shape key debates on digital infrastructure, open source, technological sovereignty, and public sector digitalization in Germany and throughout Europe.
You are the primary contact for all external communications and will partner closely with the leadership team to shape how the organization is understood and perceived. The role offers significant room to shape things in a growing public interest organization.
Communications Lead job description (English)
Sovereign Tech Agency
The Sovereign Tech Agency secures digital infrastructure in the public interest. Our mission is to strengthen digital sovereignty, fostering competition and innovation by investing in critical open source infrastructure and the ecosystems that support it. In this way, we are providing the basis for a stable, trustworthy, and democratic digital future.
We are a new organization at the intersection of technology, politics, and public stewardship. Our aim is not only to strengthen the open source ecosystem, but also to shape its future.
Open digital infrastructure is the backbone of the digital world. It is essential for the flow of information, for government, for business, and for innovation, much like roads and bridges in the physical world. The most effective strategy for building this infrastructure is open source software: it is the bedrock on which our digital society is built – powerful, collaborative, and democratic.
With a commission from the German Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation, the Sovereign Tech Agency invests in critical software components, develops programs, and creates structures that sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem, including the people behind the code.
Our work is unique: we are leading the way on how governments engage with open digital infrastructure and laying the groundwork for how modern societies ensure resilience, technological diversity, and public digital services.
Together, we are building Europe’s digital future – open, secure, and sovereign.
