Communications & Media Specialist

Communications & Media Specialist – Impulse Space

As a Communications & Media Specialist at Impulse, you’ll work closely with the Head of Marketing to scale our communications program and shape how the world understands Impulse’s mission and momentum. This role blends strategy and storytelling in a fast-moving, highly technical environment, and is perfect for a comms guru that knows how to translate engineering stories into narratives that inspire media, customers, partners, and employees alike.

Compensation: $105,000 - $135,000 / year

Location: Redondo Beach

• Contribute to an integrated communications strategy that supports Impulse’s brand, business objectives, and thought leadership positioning
• Collaborate closely with marketing, engineering, business development, government relations, recruiting, HR, mission management, and product teams to align storytelling across all touchpoints
• Coordinate and maintain editorial calendar across communications verticals covering launches, milestones, partnerships, and internal initiatives
• Recommend and maintain communication protocols for sensitive or high-visibility situations, ensuring preparedness and consistency in response across teams
• Draft industry-leading content across press releases, blogs, website content, social updates/posts, internal communications, ensuring all written communications reflect Impulse’s brand voice
• Partner with engineering, business development, government relations, product, and legal teams to ensure clarity, accuracy, and compliance
• Draft custom messaging and content needs for events and customer engagement
• Collaborate with PR agency, delivering a steady drumbeat of earned coverage from top tier and industry outlets
• Contribute to the creation of press materials, story angles, and proactive media outreach
• Coordinate media training for company spokespeople
• Track coverage and sentiment metrics and support the Head of Marketing’s internal reporting
• Oversee the planning and execution of announcements, website updates, social media messaging, and events
• Support thought leadership opportunities including speaking engagements, award submissions, and editorial placements
• Ensure consistent messaging across all external channels
• Partner with People Ops and leadership to strengthen company culture through inspiring internal messaging
• Collaborate with the Head of Marketing on strategic messaging, speeches, presentations, industry events, and media prep
• Coordinate thought leadership pieces with the Social Media and Content specialist to ensure consistent messaging across all channels
• Contribute to content for all-hands meetings, internal newsletters, and leadership updates

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or related field
• 6+ years of communications experience in aerospace, technology, or related industries
• Proven ability to craft and execute integrated communications strategies

• Demonstrated exceptional writing and editing skills – able to distill technical topics into compelling narratives for press, partners, engineers, investors, and both industry-informed and broad audiences; enthusiasm about media and agency relationships and scaling press programs
• Ownership, pragmatism, and flexibility – experience balancing competing priorities, limited resources, and the ever changing reality of hardware-driven environments
• Strong curiosity and organizational skills with comfort working in high growth environments and fast‑paced startups
• Bonus: strong relationships with reporters and new media creators

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case‑by‑case basis and may vary based on job‑related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full‑time hires, you may also be eligible for long‑term incentives in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as a 401(k) retirement plan.

Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations…