AI Risk Project Manager

Good Impressions

📍Remote (Global) 🕔 Full Time
💰 $80,000 - $120,000 USD 🔄 Rolling Applications

We are preparing to hire an AI Risk Project Manager who deeply understands the AI risk landscape to lead diverse communications projects. This could include educating top lab employees about their whistleblower rights, amplifying the voices of AI safety researchers and experts through podcasts, social media, and documentaries, or using paid ads to recruit participants for critical courses and advising services.

The mission of the AI Risk Project Manager is to ideate and execute high-impact AI safety communications projects in a way that's highly autonomous, professional, and responsive to changes in public narratives or current events. Your work will ensure important messages are delivered to the right audiences at the right time. You will work with everyone from technical researchers to public intellectuals, helping them communicate complex AI risks clearly and compellingly.

Responsibilities

AI Risk Communications Thought Leadership

• Proactive Project Identification: Use your deep knowledge of the AI safety landscape to identify critical communication gaps that Good Impressions should address

• Narrative Tracking: Stay current with AI capabilities, risks, policy developments, and public narratives to ensure our communications remain relevant and impactful

• Advising: Share your AI safety knowledge and communications expertise with other organizations in the ecosystem to strengthen the field's overall communication capacity

Core Project Management

• Discovery: Meet with clients to thoroughly understand their goals, constraints, and the broader context of their work in the AI safety ecosystem

• Project Development: Work with the Good Impressions team and external specialists to develop comprehensive strategies—whether that's a social media campaign, a podcast tour, or a documentary distribution plan.

• Implementation: Execute complex, multi-stakeholder projects while maintaining momentum and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks

• Optimization: Monitor project performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and iterate quickly based on feedback and results

• Reporting: Analyze and communicate project results and recommended next steps, ensuring clients understand what we're doing and stay in the loop throughout the process

Client Success

• Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding that we succeed when they succeed

• Communication Excellence: Maintain clear, proactive, and professional client communication that demonstrates reasoning transparency 

• Responsive Support: Maintain high responsiveness to client needs while managing multiple concurrent projects

About You

We will evaluate candidates across five areas:

1. AI Risk Competency

• Embedded in and trusted by the AI risk community

• Deep familiarity with AI safety/risk concepts, key players, and ongoing debates

• Constantly staying up to date on AI developments, safety research, and policy updates

• Heavily online—you may not post on Twitter, but you spend a good amount of time there

• You have burning ideas about the types of communications projects that would effectively move the AI Risk space forward

• Ability to navigate Bay Area rationalist culture

2. Professional Services Experience

• Successful track record in a high-expectation professional services environment like management consulting or a marketing agency

• Strong customer success mentality—you demonstrate the level of proactive communication, organization, trust-building, and rigor required to forge and maintain strong client relationships

• Ability to navigate mainstream professional environments

3. Values Alignment

• You feel deep alignment with Good Impressions’ values (listed below).

4. Will

• You care deeply about reducing AI risk and see communications as an important part of doing so. You’re highly motivated to join our team.

5. [Bonus] Marketing Experience

• This role does not require experience with digital marketing or other communications professions (this is because we believe it is very learnable and we will teach you)

• However, if you have experience in this area, it will be highly valued

Reasons To Work At Good Impressions

• Work with a great team:

• "The productivity and kindness of this team are off the charts"

• "Since starting, my job satisfaction has shot through the roof"

• "I honestly cannot imagine working in a more positive culture"

• "I'm always very grateful to work so closely with such a great mentor and recommend all my jobseeking friends to find something where they can have this dynamic :)"

• "Lovely work environment (checks all of 80k's boxes for me), and clients really like us!"

• Be at the center of AI risk communications: We work with many of the most prominent organizations in AI safety. 

• Shape the field: As we identify gaps in AI safety communications, you'll have the opportunity to design and launch new initiatives that could transform how society navigates this crucial issue.

• Professional growth: The prominence of AI risk, combined with our trusted position in the field, creates access to mentorship and collaboration opportunities that would be very hard to obtain in normal contexts.

• Autonomy: We're looking for someone who can autonomously manage and drive projects to completion.

• Impact: See the direct results of your work—whether it's a documentary reaching millions, critical safety research finally getting the attention it deserves, or enabling important voices to reach wider audiences. Some of our AI-specific results:

• Recruited more than 220 participants for BlueDot Impact's courses, including employees from OpenAI, Meta's RLHF team, and the WHO Assistant Director General

• Supported Daniel Kokotajlo in the promotion of AI 2027

• Increased Epoch AI's Twitter followers by ~3.4x among users who work at top AI labs, governmental bodies, major media outlets, and think tanks, which Epoch says "could have a significant impact on our ability to achieve our goals as an organization"

• Competitive compensation: We aim to compensate above the 75th percentile for comparable roles.

• Remote: Work from anywhere.

Our values

These values define how all of our team members work. We hire, give feedback, and—if necessary—fire based on them. Please deeply consider them before applying. If they sound like you, you'll fit right in. If not, the way we do things likely won't match you.

1. Impact first

Impact is our north star. We turn down projects if we don't think we can help. We teach the clients that want to learn so they're less dependent on us in the future. We initiate important projects that nobody is asking for. We fundraise so we can run promising projects for clients tight on cash. We celebrate the wins because the wins really matter.

2. Own the mission

We take complete ownership of outcomes and push through obstacles until we deliver results we're proud of. No one is going to solve our problems except for us. If we don't have what we need to do the job well, we find a way to get it. If we see a problem on the horizon, we bring it up.

3. Look for better and faster ways of doing everything

We're constantly searching for approaches that are orders of magnitude better than the standard way of doing things. We leverage AI to work smarter and faster. We use our best judgment when trading off quality and speed, always looking for win-wins. We do all of this individually, but we also do it as a team by sharing what we've learned.

4. Be radically helpful

We're as helpful as possible to our clients because we think they're doing some of the most impactful work in the world (otherwise we wouldn't be working with them). We're as helpful as possible to the team because we will succeed or fail as a team.

5. Overcommunicate

Most problems can be solved or avoided with more frequent and effective communication. We're transparent with our clients, our funders, and our team and we say what we think even if others may disagree.

6. Constantly improve

We're hungry for impact, which means we're hungry for feedback. We want to get better because getting better is how we help more people and animals. We seek out feedback and see it as a sign of respect.

Criteria For Successful Applications

Here are some highlights of past applications that have been successful:

• Cover Letter: Please explain the following in your cover letter

• Why you’re excited about the role 

• Why you would be a good fit

• What you care about in a work environment and how you embody it 

• Short and Concise: One page each for the resume and cover letter is ideal. 

• Effort: Cover letters and resumes that are customized and thoughtful are highly valued. 

• Demonstrate Your Expertise: In whatever way makes sense to you. Anything you add that addresses the needs expressed in this Role Outline are helpful. How will you achieve the mission of this role?

Good Impressions’ Hiring Process

Here’s what to expect if you progress through the process:

1. Application Assessment: We aim to respond to everyone’s applications within a couple weeks.

2. Intro Call: 30 Minutes to get to know the hiring manager and see if there is a basic fit.

3. Deeper Interview: 90 Minute resume review with two members of our team.

4. Assignment: Hands on work sample so we can see your skills applied to the role. Detailed instructions are provided and you get to choose a timeline that fits what’s going on in your life.

5. Reference Checks: We’ll ask you to introduce us to 2-3 people you’ve worked with before for quick phone/video conversations. We’ll ask them what it was like to work with you.

6. Verbal Offer: We’ll give you a call to let you know there’s a spot on our team for you, answer any questions and talk through any concerns you have; then align on particulars like final compensation structure, start date, etc.

7. Written Offer: We’ll send you an employment offer letter to review and sign.

8. Pre-Onboarding: We’ll give you all the information, equipment, and account access you need to feel prepared ahead of your first day and hit the ground running.

9. Onboarding: We’ll introduce you to everyone on the team, train you on our processes, and make you feel welcome.