# PR & Communications Manager

**Company:** [Manna](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/hjFLLefe14XxQjH2Abqjsg.md)
**Location:** Tulsa, United States
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Department:** Corporate Affairs

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## Description

**About Manna**

At **Manna**, we’re changing how the world receives things — by taking delivery to the skies.

Our mission is simple but ambitious: **to make high-speed suburban delivery affordable, green, and safe**. We design and build our own aviation-grade drones that deliver food, coffee, groceries, and more directly from local stores and vendors to people’s doors in just a few minutes.

We’re a team that **Drive with Impact**, are **Safety Focused**, and knows that the best ideas come from **Team Players** who show up as their **Authentic Selves**. We move fast, we are passionate about what we do, and we’re always pushing a growth mindset to **be better** in everything we do.

If you want to build world-changing technology with real-world impact (and have a bit of fun while doing it), you’ll love it here.

**Welcome to Manna — where we deliver the future.**

**Role Purpose**

We are hiring a PR & Communications Manager. Manna is launching drone delivery operations in the Tulsa area and needs a dedicated media, PR, and content lead to manage press relationships, draft external messaging across channels, and protect the company's reputation through a high-visibility launch.

This role is focused on media, PR, content drafting, and public-facing reputation management. Grassroots community engagement will be owned by the Community Engagement Manager. This role works closely with our regional PR/Media consultancy firm.

Objective: protect and build Manna's public reputation in Tulsa through expert media handling, consistent content and messaging across every external channel, and reactive support during high-pressure moments.

**Key Responsibilities**

•        **Media Relations & PR Campaigns**

◦        Serve as the primary day-to-day media contact in Tulsa, managing traditional and digital press relationships.

◦        Execute PR campaigns in coordination with external PR firm.

◦        Manage the press list, campaign timelines, outreach, and media placements.

•        **Content & Messaging Drafting (All Channels)**

◦        Draft copy and content for the website and blog.

◦        Draft content for the Manna global LinkedIn page.

◦        Draft social media copy for local channels.

◦        Draft copy for billboard and out-of-home advertising.

◦        Ensure all external messaging reflects Manna's core pillars: safety, benefit, innovation, local commitment.

◦        Support communications around commercial partnership announcements and launch milestones.

•        **Press Office Function (Day-to-Day)**

◦        Support responding to inbound media queries.

◦        Draft press responses for approval.

◦        Coordinate interviews and briefings.

•        **Reputation & Issues (Media-Facing)**

◦        Provide advisory input on crisis and issues management from a media perspective.

◦        Lead reactive, media-facing response and message shaping under pressure.

◦        Stress-test messaging before release and support countering negative narratives from a media/PR angle.

**What You'll Bring**

•        Strong writing and messaging instincts across multiple formats and channels; comfortable operating under time pressure.

•        Experience managing press strategy alongside an external PR agency.

**Experience & Requirements**

•        5+ years in media relations, PR, content, or communications, ideally in a regulated, infrastructure, or consumer tech industry.

•        Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

**What Success Looks Like at 6–12 Months**

•        Strong, functioning relationships with Tulsa and Oklahoma media.

•        A clean track record of fast, accurate press response with no missed cycles.

•        Consistent, on-brand content flowing across website, blog, LinkedIn, social, and advertising.