Internal Communications Specialist

Impulse Space; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical vision dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Impulse Space is seeking an Internal Communications & Employee Communications Specialist to own how we communicate with our people. You will drive the internal comms strategy, own All Hands, newsletters, and leadership messaging, and partner with People Ops, Recruiting, and leadership to align priorities with culture.

You’ll translate priorities into clear, compelling communications to inform, align, and inspire our growing team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in internal or employee communications.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills with clarity and empathy.
• Experience developing and executing internal comms strategies.
• Experience partnering with executives on messaging and campaigns.
• Strong project management and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Shape and execute Impulse’s internal communications strategy across channels.
• Own All Hands programs from strategy to speaker coordination and production.
• Manage recurring communications like newsletters and updates.
• Collaborate with leaders to communicate priorities and major milestones.
• Draft leadership messages, talking points, and announcements.
• Strengthen culture through storytelling and recognition.
• Highlight stories across the company and celebrate achievements.
• Coordinate with People Ops and Recruiting for onboarding messaging.
• Support recruiting messaging and candidate communications.
• Serve as internal comms partner across Marketing, People Ops, Recruiting, and leadership.

Skills

Exceptional writing

Editing

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Executive communications

Education

Bachelor's degree in related creative field

Job description

Department: Marketing

Location: Redondo Beach

Compensation: $120,000 - $160,000 / year

Description

As an Internal Communications & Employee Communications Specialist at Impulse, you will own how we communicate with one of our most important audiences: our people. Reporting to the Marketing lead, you’ll contribute to and execute the internal communications strategy that keeps employees informed, aligned, connected, and inspired as Impulse continues to grow. You’ll work closely with People Operations, Recruiting, company leadership, and teams across Impulse to translate company priorities into clear, compelling communications and create meaningful moments that strengthen our culture.

You’ll own our core internal communications channels and programs—including All Hands, leadership communications, newsletters, organizational announcements, and culture initiatives—while helping create a cohesive communications experience for current and future employees.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and execute Impulse’s internal communications strategy, including the channels, cadence, messaging, and programs that keep employees informed and connected as the company scales
• Own Impulse’s All Hands program and content end-to-end, including strategy, agenda development, speaker coordination, executive preparation, presentations, and partnership with Operations and IT on production
• Own recurring internal communications, including employee newsletters, company-wide updates and announcements, executive Q&As, lunch and learns, and other internal channels
• Partner with executives and company leaders to communicate strategy, business priorities, major milestones, organizational developments, and change with clarity and context
• Draft and edit leadership messages, talking points, presentations, company announcements, and other executive communications
• Strengthen company culture through thoughtful communications, storytelling, recognition, and shared experiences that reinforce Impulse’s mission, values, people, and accomplishments
• Identify and tell stories from across the company that celebrate our teams, technical achievements, major milestones, and the work happening behind the scenes
• Partner with People Operations and Recruiting to create a cohesive communications experience from a candidate’s first interaction with Impulse through onboarding and their career at the company
• Support recruiting messaging, careers content, candidate communications, and onboarding materials that authentically reflect Impulse’s mission, culture, and employee experience
• Serve as the primary internal communications partner across Marketing, People Operations, Recruiting, and company leadership, coordinating employee-facing communications for clarity and consistency
• Partner with Corporate Communications to align employee messaging with the broader company narrative while maintaining clear ownership between internal/employee and external communications
• Measure the effectiveness of internal communications through engagement, employee feedback, and other signals, continuously improving the program as the company grows

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in internal communications, employee communications, or a related communications role
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to make complex information clear, compelling, and human
• Experience developing and executing internal communications strategies and programs from strategy through execution
• Experience partnering directly with executives and senior leaders on messaging, presentations, and company-wide communications
• Strong project management skills and the ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across functions and levels of an organization
• Comfortable operating with autonomy, navigating ambiguity, and building new programs in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Bachelors degree in related creative field
• Excellent judgment and discretion when working with sensitive or confidential information
• Experience partnering with People Operations, Recruiting, or employee experience teams is a plus
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in aerospace, technology, manufacturing, or another highly technical environment is a plus

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.