Job Description
The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is hiring a Communications Associate to join our fast-paced and dynamic team! Our outreach projects currently include (but are not limited to) top-tier press outreach, building a network of aligned content creators, creating a series of AGI-focused PSAs, executing a national public engagement campaign and more. In the next 6-12 months, we plan to scale up our outreach and campaign efforts even further to produce targeted content for a broad range of key audiences. To enable this, we need detail oriented and message-savvy talent to drive these projects forward.
The Communications Associate will report directly to the US Communications Manager.
Who we are
FLI educates and engages lawmakers, key stakeholders, and the general public about transformative technologies and their implications. We advocate for policies and approaches that mitigate catastrophic risks while advancing positive futures for humanity.
As the Communications Associate you will:
- Support our robust media relations apparatus. You’ll craft press releases that actually get read, pitch stories that land, and become reporters’ favorite person to hear from. This will probably be about 30% of your time.
- Help take our social media presence to the next level, dreaming up posts that stop the scroll, keeping our content calendar humming, and jumping on trends before they’re over. This will be about 30% of your time.
- Be the glue that holds our communications operation together, partnering with designers to bring ideas to life, keeping our internal systems from descending into chaos, making sure nothing falls through the cracks, and generally being the person who makes everyone else’s job easier. This will be about 30% of your time.
- Take the lead on exciting earned media initiatives, support the policy team’s public communications work, and generally help FLI keep the future human. This is the “other duties as assigned” part, which will be about 10% of your time.
Required experience:
- Based in the US.
- 2+ years of getting your hands dirty in communications, PR, public affairs or a similar field where you picked up a bias toward action.
- A way with words: you can write a killer press release or oped in your sleep, and craft social posts that people actually want to engage with.
- Fluency in social media platforms and the tools that make them work.
Required skills and qualities:
- The confidence to pitch journalists and producers with the savvy to know what’ll make them bite.
- The organizational superpowers to juggle seventeen things at once without breaking a sweat.
- A collaborative spirit and genuine willingness to roll up your sleeves on whatever the team needs, whether that’s wrangling print vendors or keeping everyone’s calendars in sync.
- The courage to raise your hand when you need help.
- Solutions-focused mindset, with proven aptitude and initiative in solving comms problems.
Preferred qualifications, skills and qualities:
- We prefer this role to be based in the West Coast of the US.
- You’ve navigated the non-profit or tech world before, can speak designer-ese, and/or know your way around project management tools.
- Familiarity with the AI landscape, and a passion for steering AI away from unacceptable risks and towards amazing human futures.
- Familiar with platforms like Muck Rack, SproutSocial, Canva
- You’ve worked with very busy bosses, so you know how to manage up and work proactively with minimal supervision.
$75,000 - $115,000 a year
Exact compensation will vary depending on experience and geography.
Additional benefits include: health insurance, 24+ days of PTO per year, paid parental leave, 401k matching in the US, a generous professional development budget, and a work from home allowance for the purchase of office supplies or equipment.
Application Deadline: 20 March, 2026
Start Date: We’d like the chosen candidate to start as soon as possible after accepting an offer.
Application Process: Apply by uploading your resume, two writing samples demonstrating your comms ability, and a short answer to the following question(s):
Why are you interested in working at FLI in particular? (200 words max)
Please apply via our website. Email applications are not accepted.
FLI aims to be an inclusive organization. We proactively seek job applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you are passionate about FLI’s mission and think you have what it takes to be successful in this role even though you may not check all the boxes, please still apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.
Questions may be directed to [email protected].
About the Future of Life Institute
Founded in 2014, FLI is an independent non-profit working to steer transformative technology towards benefitting life and away from extreme large-scale risks. Our work includes grantmaking, educational outreach, and policy engagement.
Our work has been featured widely, including in The Washington Post, Politico, Vox, Forbes, The Guardian, the BBC, The Economist and Wired.
Some of our achievements include:
- Pause Giant AI Experiments, an open letter calling for a 6 month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The letter has been signed by more than 30,000 people, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and Andrew Yang.
- The Asilomar AI Principles, one of the earliest and most influential sets of AI governance principles.
- How would a nuclear war between Russia and the US affect you personally?- A scientifically accurate simulation showing the consequences of nuclear war, with over 6 millions views and a feature in Time Magazine.
- AI Safety Index - an objective rating of AI companies on key safety and security domains, as judged by experts in the field.
- Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest - From 180+ submissions, we selected 6 winning artworks that best illustrate the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.
FLI is a largely virtual organization, with a team of >30 distributed internationally, mostly in Europe and the US. We have four offices: Campbell in California, Brussels in Belgium, London in the UK, and Washington DC. We meet in person as a full team twice a year.
