Communications Officer (AI)
Coefficient Giving
📍 Remote (Global) 🕔 Full Time
💰$163,694.51 - $216,759.09 USD/year ⏳ 17/01/2025
Open Philanthropy is now Coefficient Giving. You can read more about this decision and our growing work with multiple philanthropic partners on our new website here.
About Coefficient Giving
Coefficient Giving is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, we’ve directed over $4 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment to cost-effective, high-impact giving. Our current funds include Science and Global Health R&D, Navigating Transformative Artificial Intelligence, Abundance & Growth, Farm Animal Welfare, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness, and more. In 2024, we recommended $650 million to high-impact causes.
About the Role
This role will focus primarily on supporting our AI-focused program teams and improving how our AI work is understood by key audiences. This role will likely report to Naina Bajekal, the Director of Communications, though may move to another senior communications staff member later in 2026.
Responsibilities may include:
Supporting AI program staff in communicating their work clearly and strategically. This includes helping draft and refine blog posts, research updates, and other content to make complex technical and policy work accessible to different audiences — from policymakers to potential donors to the broader public.
Developing and maintaining clear explanations of our AI safety work for different audiences. This could include blog posts, newsletter and social media content, FAQs, explainer videos, or other formats that help people understand what we do and why it matters.
Building strong working relationships with the team leads across our AI-focused programs and becoming a trusted partner they can turn to for communications advice on both higher-level strategy and individual grants. You'll develop a deep understanding of the AI safety landscape and our grantees' work, and you may provide communications support to priority grantees.
Providing strategic communications advice on sensitive or high-stakes content and decisions relating to our AI work. This could include assessing potential risks, coordinating internal responses, and helping craft quick but thoughtful responses (including on social media) to navigate complex messaging challenges in a politically charged environment.
Supporting media relations work, which may include helping prepare staff for interviews, drafting statements or talking points about our AI work, and coordinating with journalists.
Collaborating with the broader communications team on a variety of cross-cutting projects (e.g. newsletter, internal communications) and helping maintain our standards and processes.
The exact scope of this role will evolve based on organizational needs and your strengths and interests. There is room for potential involvement in supporting biosecurity and pandemic preparedness and other scientific communications as well.
Who might be a good fit
We're looking for someone with roughly 3-7 years of professional experience who combines strong communications skills with genuine interest in AI safety or adjacent fields. For candidates with exceptional experience, we’re open to hiring at a more senior level.
You might be a great fit for this work if you:
Have strong judgment and strategic thinking. You can assess communications risks, understand different stakeholders' perspectives, and provide thoughtful counsel on sensitive topics. You're the kind of person colleagues trust with high-stakes projects.
Write clearly and can adapt to different audiences. You can make complex topics accessible without oversimplifying, and you understand how to calibrate tone for different contexts — from technical research summaries to public-facing blog posts.
Are interested in AI safety or have relevant context. You don't need to be a technical expert, but you should have genuine curiosity about AI safety and governance, and ideally some familiarity with the debates and key players in this space. Experience covering AI as a journalist, working at an AI safety organization, or at an AI company would all be relevant.
Can build productive working relationships with researchers, leaders, and program staff who may have very different communication styles and priorities. You're collaborative, responsive, and bring a service mindset to your work.
Have good editorial skills. You are a skilled writer and line editor who can polish others' writing and catch errors or unclear phrasing.
Can work effectively under pressure. AI policy and safety debates move quickly, and you may occasionally need to respond to time-sensitive situations.
Above all, we are looking for someone motivated to contribute to our mission of helping others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We've found that people are most satisfied with Communications roles when they’re genuinely bought into what we're trying to achieve. You don't need to agree with every aspect of Coefficient’s work, but you should be excited about using communications to increase our impact and to help reduce risks from advanced AI.
The ideal candidate for this position will possess many of the skills and experiences described above, but there is no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. If you are on the fence about applying because you are unsure whether you are qualified, we strongly encourage you to apply.
Role Details & Benefits
Compensation: The baseline compensation for this role is $163,694.51, which would be distributed as a base salary of $142,343.05 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $21,351.46 for U.S. hires. For candidates hired at the Senior level, the baseline compensation is $216,759.09, which would be distributed as a base salary of $192,259.09 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $24,500.00 for U.S. hires. These compensation figures assume a remote location; there would be geographic adjustments upwards for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Washington, D.C.
Time zones and location: You can work remotely with a strong preference for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area (where many of our AI-focused staff work), followed by New York (where three members of the Communications team, including Naina, are based) or Washington D.C. Since we strongly prefer hires to be based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we would support candidates with the costs of relocation to the Bay but we'd also consider candidates based elsewhere who are willing to travel to the Bay Area at least 4 times a year.
We are happy to consider sponsoring U.S. work authorization. However, we don’t control who is and isn’t eligible for a visa and can’t guarantee visa approval. We are open to hires outside the U.S., provided you can consistently work at least 5 hours overlapping with Eastern Time business hours per workday.
Benefits: Our benefits package includes:
Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the U.S. for you and any eligible dependents) and an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain other personal health expenses.
Dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your family.
Four weeks of PTO recommended per year.
Four months of fully paid family leave.
A generous and flexible expense policy — we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment, software, and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive. This policy also includes a productivity benefit, which provides a set amount for staff to expense items that enhance their productivity.
A continual learning policy that encourages staff to spend time on professional development with related expenses covered.
Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one, or connect you with a Coefficient Giving coworking hub in your city. We currently have offices in San Francisco and Washington D.C., and multiple staff working from several other cities in the U.S. and elsewhere.
We can’t always provide every benefit we offer U.S. staff to international hires, but we’re working on it (and will usually provide cash equivalents of any benefits we can’t offer in your country).
Start date: We’d like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer — and definitely no later than April, though ideally much sooner.
We aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can. We are committed to creating an environment where all employees have the opportunity to succeed, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please continue to contact jobs@openphilanthropy.org (this email remains the same as we transition to our new email alias).
We may use AI to assist in the initial screening of applications, but every application is carefully reviewed by a human before any decisions are made. You can opt out of AI being used on your application by emailing jobs@coefficientgiving.org to let a member of the team know. Opting out will not impact your application.
