Communications Associate Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, journalism, or an agency setting.
• Demonstrated media relations experience, including pitches that resulted in earned coverage.
• Writing samples across at least two formats, such as a media pitch, press release, speaker abstract, or award nomination.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in communications within the aerospace, technology, or hardware industries.
• Familiarity with the space industry press, conference circuit, and major industry awards.
• Experience drafting speaker abstracts or award nominations that were accepted.
• Ability to translate technical engineering detail for general and trade audiences.
• Ability to make independent judgments with limited information and work with minimal guidance.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for working across engineering, business development, legal, and leadership teams.
• Project management skills, including juggling competing deadlines and independently tracking down outstanding answers.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment, balancing several projects at a time, and adjusting to changes in direction.

Responsibilities

• Draft and send media pitches for company news.
• Build and maintain media lists and reporter relationships across space, technology, and business beats.
• Field and log inbound media inquiries, route them to the Director, and recommend responses.
• Monitor daily coverage of Vast, competitors, customers, and partners, and flag items that need a same-day response.
• Own the annual calendar of conference speaking opportunities and industry awards, including deadlines, requirements, and outcomes.
• Draft speaker abstracts, executive bios, and award nominations, gathering supporting data from engineering, program, and business development teams.
• Route drafts through technical, legal, and export-control review and track approvals through completion.
• Maintain messaging documents and update them to reflect the company’s latest offerings and news.
• Manage communications project timelines and status, and keep stakeholders informed of deliverables.

Benefits

• Company equity for full-time employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, including vacation for exempt and non-exempt staff and the ability to cash out unused vacation annually.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• ClassPass credits.
• Personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health.
• Other discounts and perks.
• Free snacks, drip coffee, cold drinks, and dinner meals; subsidized lunch.