Communications Leader

northwoodspace • Los Angeles, CA

138d

About The Position

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company focused on connecting space and Earth. The world runs on space. Space will run on Northwood. Our global ground network ensures that missions ranging from national security, to global connectivity, to disaster response can unlock their full potential and operate every day without fail. We’re hiring a Communications Leader to influence how Northwood shows up to the world. You will drive our strategic advantage with customers, media, recruits, investors, and government partners by translating our vision into clear, compelling language and building momentum around our mission. This is a leadership role with direct access to the founding team. You’ll operate across product, policy, partnerships, and recruiting. You’ll be hands-on and highly trusted.

Requirements

• 5-10+ years in communications, public affairs, journalism, brand strategy, or related roles.
• Experience supporting or collaborating directly with founders or C-suite execs.
• Demonstrated ability to work across highly technical subject matter.
• Background in startups, aerospace, national security, or infrastructure strongly preferred.
• Exceptional writing portfolio across a range of formats.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the CEO to translate, evolve, and protect the company’s narrative.
• Build and manage relationships with national security, tech, and space reporters.
• Shape stories with select media when strategically valuable and ignore noise when it’s not.
• Translate technical progress into strategic messaging.
• Work cross-functionally to explain our engineering, software, and deployment milestones to non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop our outbound content strategy.
• Maintain a high standard of clarity, originality, and signal.
• Lead planning and execution for major announcements — product launches, partnerships, funding rounds, deployments, etc.

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive health care
• Flexible vacation
• Retirement savings plans
• Opportunities for professional development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees