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Head of Communications

Head of Communications

NorthwoodTorrance, CA, United States
8 hours ago
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Job description

Overview

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. This story needs to be told.

The Role

We’re hiring a Head of Communications to influence how Northwood shows up to the world. You will energize 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.

Responsibilities

  • Narrative Stewardship : Partner closely with the CEO to translate, evolve, and protect the company’s narrative.
  • Media Relations : 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.
  • Product & Technology Storytelling : Translate technical progress into strategic messaging. Work cross-functionally to explain our engineering, software, and deployment milestones to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Platform Building : Develop our outbound content strategy. Maintain a high standard of clarity, originality, and signal.
  • Strategic Announcements & Launches : Lead planning and execution for major announcements - product launches, partnerships, funding rounds, deployments, etc.

Who You Are

  • A strategic communicator who’s worked in or around high-velocity, founder-led environments - ideally in hard tech, national security, aerospace, or AI.
  • A world-class writer who can handle varied content from technical briefs to press quotes to blog drafts.
  • A narrative thinker who understands how positioning, timing, tone, and medium interact.
  • A collaborative operator who works closely with founders and leadership to ensure aligned, effective communication while driving independent execution.
  • A tasteful editor and brand steward who holds the bar high and keeps the message sharp.
  • Qualifications

  • 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
  • Additional Information

    Compensation at Northwood Space is based on role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary depending on job-related skills, education, experience, and technical expertise. In addition to base salary, Northwood Space offers long-term incentives such as company stock options and discretionary performance bonuses. Benefits include equity, comprehensive health care, flexible vacation, retirement savings plans, and opportunities for professional development.

    To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

    Northwood is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood 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.

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