Senior Manager - Product Marketing

Location: San Francisco, CA (on-site 5 days/week)

About The Center for AI Safety (CAIS)

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI. Some of our past achievements include: releasing the most widely used measure of AI capabilities used by all major AI companies, running a large compute cluster to facilitate AI safety research which has been cited over 16,000 times, and publishing a global statement on AI Risk signed by Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and top AI CEOs.

The Role

Public Engagement exists to make AI safety legible, urgent, and personal, translating the world-class research produced by CAIS into stories and activations that reach the mainstream. We’re hiring a Senior Manager, Product Marketing to turn ambitious Public Engagement strategies into campaigns and programs that are accessible to everyone.

Given an established strategy, campaign concept, or research initiative, you’ll determine how to bring it to market: sharpen the audience and narrative, build the launch plan, produce the materials, coordinate the people and partners required to deliver it, and make sure the work lands with its intended audience.

The scope varies by design. You might take a technical research result and build the launch around it, stand up a program that equips creators to communicate about AI safety, or coordinate agencies and partners around a major public activation. What unites the work is the need for someone who can take a rough mandate and independently turn it into a coherent, high-quality launch.

We need someone who can ship a research paper and spark a movement: a versatile operator and storyteller who can take an idea and independently assemble everything required to get it into the world.

What You’ll Do

• Turn ambiguity into clarity: take complex research, ideas, or initiatives and develop a crisp point of view: who it’s for, what we’re saying, and why it matters.
• Drive launches as a system, not an event: define what success looks like, sequence the necessary workstreams, and make sure the story, assets, partners, and proof points are ready at the same time.
• Own go-to-market execution for Public Engagement campaigns, programs, research launches, and major initiatives from brief through launch and measurement.
• Produce the briefs, narratives, talking points, FAQs, partner materials, creator toolkits, web pages, and other assets CAIS and its partners need to communicate AI safety clearly and consistently.
• Orchestrate launches across creative, content, communications, partnerships, research, agencies, vendors, and external collaborators.
• Own external agencies and vendors where needed, giving clear direction, maintaining a high creative bar, and holding partners accountable for outcomes.
• Help build and operate programs such as CAIS’s creator initiatives, developing the systems, materials, partnerships, and workflows required to scale them.
• Keep a sharp, real-time read on the audience and external conversation so our narrative stays grounded in what is true and persuasive rather than drifting into hype.
• Define and track meaningful measures of success, learn from launches, and turn successful approaches into reusable playbooks.
• Stay close to the work. This is a hands-on IC role: when something important needs to be written, built, coordinated, or shipped, you are willing to do it yourself.

Who We're Looking For

You’re a strong product marketer who has owned consequential launches from beginning to end. You know how to take a strategy and make it real: identify the audience, sharpen the story, brief creative, coordinate stakeholders, manage agencies and partners, build the assets, anticipate what could go wrong, and make sure the launch actually ships and lands.

You combine excellent storytelling with operational strength. You can move between positioning, writing, creative judgment, launch orchestration, and measurement without waiting for someone else to connect the pieces. Hand you a strategy and a rough mandate, and you’ll figure out who needs to be in the room, what needs to ship, and by when.

This is a senior individual contributor role. We’re looking for someone who wants to go deep, build institutional knowledge, and become exceptionally good at translating AI safety into public engagement.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in product marketing or integrated campaign management, ideally having owned launches end-to-end as an individual contributor.
• A track record of taking an established strategy and independently driving it through execution and launch.
• Proven experience owning positioning and messaging across different audiences and use cases.
• Exceptional writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to make technical or complicated subjects simple, specific, compelling, and accurate across formats.
• Strong operational skills. You can coordinate many moving pieces across internal teams, agencies, vendors, partners, and deadlines without requiring close supervision.
• Strong creative judgment and the ability to give useful direction and feedback to writers, designers, agencies, and other creative partners.
• Demonstrated systems thinking: you build repeatable playbooks and processes, not one-off documents.
• Comfort operating autonomously as a senior individual contributor and directly producing work rather than managing through a team.
• The ability to move quickly while maintaining an unusually high bar for quality.
• Genuine interest in AI safety and the willingness to develop enough technical and policy fluency to communicate the subject credibly.

Salary Range

$150,000 - $200,000 annually, depending on experience. 

Benefits

• Health insurance for you and your dependents
• 401K plan + 4% matching
• Unlimited PTO
• Lunch and dinner at the office
• Annual Professional Development Stipend
• Access to some of the top talent working on technical and conceptual research in AI safety