Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FAR.AI is hiring a Senior Media Strategist to lead earned media for its AI safety research. The role develops media strategy for research releases, builds reporter relationships, prepares researchers and leaders for interviews, and manages inbound and reactive press communications.
Responsibilities
- Own [FAR.AI](http://FAR.AI)'s earned media strategy, including a forward view of research releases, events and announcements and a plan for each one worth taking to the press
- Decide which findings are news, which outlets, podcasts and newsletters to approach, and how to frame them, working with researchers and leadership
- Build and maintain relationships with reporters covering AI and AI policy at national, international, trade and policy outlets
- Manage the judgment calls that come with publishing safety issues in frontier models: how hard to push and how to respond when a frontier developer pushes back or pre-empts
- Own researcher and leadership media training, including message development, briefing notes, and mock interviews for hostile or framing-driven questions
- Own inbound media requests, including deciding what we engage with and what we decline. This could include incidents and model-release news cycles, often on short notice
- Write and place op-eds and pitches, working with our technical writer on research explanations
- Set the goal for each release and hold us accountable to it
Skills
- 5+ years in media relations, press strategy or journalism, including leading campaigns yourself
- Established relationships with reporters covering AI and AI policy, and a record of earned coverage in top-tier outlets that you can point to
- An informed point of view on how AI risk is being covered and what good coverage looks like
- Judgment under competing pressures, including experience placing a story that criticized a powerful organization without burning the relationship
- Comfort with technically fluent reporters who will check the claims, and a habit of resisting hype in both directions
- Strong writing and fast turnaround: can produce a plan or a reply within hours when a release or incident creates a window
- A background as a working journalist on technology or policy
- Experience preparing researchers or executives for podcasts and broadcast interviews
- Experience designing or running media training programs
- Experience translating technical or scientific work for general audiences
- Experience running reactive communications
Benefits
- Remote globally; we can hire remotely in most countries.
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