Communications & Media Specialist

Description

As a Communications & Media Specialist at Impulse, you’ll work 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 to narratives that inspire media, customers, partners, and employees alike.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Develop 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

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Skills and Experience

Additional Information :

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 access to a 401(k) retirement plan .

Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here .

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin / ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.