Senior Media Manager (AI)

Location: Remote globally; the role can be hired remotely in most countries. Regular overlap with EST is preferred from 12pm–5pm EST.

Salary: $170K–$190K annually.

Company

hirify.global is a 501(c)(3) non-profit AI research institute focused on AI safety, frontier-model evaluations, AI risk research, and global coordination.

What you will do

• Own the earned media strategy for research releases, events, and announcements.
• Assess which findings are newsworthy, select relevant outlets, podcasts, and newsletters, and develop positioning with researchers and leadership.
• Build relationships with reporters covering AI and AI policy across national, international, trade, and policy outlets.
• Manage communications decisions around safety issues in frontier models, including pushback or pre-emption by developers.
• Lead researcher and leadership media training through message development, briefing notes, and mock interviews.
• Handle inbound media requests, write and place op-eds and pitches, and set goals for each release.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in media relations, press strategy, or journalism, including independently leading campaigns.
• Established relationships with AI and AI-policy reporters and a record of earned coverage in top-tier outlets.
• An informed perspective on AI-risk coverage and what constitutes high-quality reporting.
• Sound judgment under competing pressures, including experience placing stories that criticized powerful organizations without damaging relationships.
• Comfort working with technically fluent reporters who fact-check claims and a consistent resistance to hype.
• Strong writing skills and the ability to produce a plan or response within hours during release or incident windows.

Nice to have

• Professional journalism experience in technology or policy.
• Experience preparing researchers or executives for podcast and broadcast interviews.
• Experience designing or running media training programs.
• Experience translating technical or scientific work for general audiences.
• Experience running reactive communications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee position at a 501(c)(3) research non-profit.
• Remote work is available globally, with hiring possible in most countries.
• Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week.
• Regular collaboration with US-based colleagues and journalists, with preferred EST overlap from 12pm–5pm.

Hiring process

• Application form followed by a recruiter screen, paid test task, hiring manager interview, interviews with research and communications teams, and a values interview with a co-founder.
• Reference checks follow the interview process; applications should be submitted through the application form rather than by emailing a resume.