Project Manager (Youth AI Safety Institute)

COMMON SENSE MEDIA•San Francisco, CA

7d•$66,000 - $82,000•Onsite

About The Position

Common Sense Media is seeking a Project Manager for its new Youth AI Safety Institute. This role will oversee the end-to-end publishing and distribution process for the Institute's work, including risk assessments, standards, and research briefs. The Project Manager will work cross-functionally with content strategy, site operations, and internal teams like Communications, Marketing, Product, and Editorial to ensure the Institute's outputs reach the intended audiences effectively. This position offers significant growth potential as the Institute scales its publishing volume and infrastructure. The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, and adept at managing both operational and strategic aspects of content publishing.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (communications, journalism, public policy, digital media, or related).
2–3 years of experience in content operations, digital publishing, communications coordination, or a related role.
Hands-on experience working in a content management system, with comfort managing formatting, publishing workflows, and page QA.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate across multiple internal teams and stakeholders to move projects forward on deadline.
Strong attention to detail and process orientation, with a track record of building and maintaining systems that keep complex workflows running smoothly.
Clear written communication skills, with the ability to draft institutional audience-facing content and document processes precisely.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with product or engineering teams to specify and implement content or site features.
Familiarity with content strategy, audience segmentation, or digital distribution in a research, policy, or nonprofit context.
Experience managing content archives, version control, or publishing standards documentation.
Comfort working across communications, marketing, and editorial functions in a matrixed organization.
Interest in AI safety, technology policy, or child and youth safety.

Responsibilities

Own the backend publishing workflow for all Institute output, including risk assessments, standards documentation, research briefs, and related materials.
Manage CMS operations for Institute content: uploading, formatting, QAing, and maintaining published pages to ensure accuracy, consistency, and accessibility.
Develop and maintain publishing standards and process documentation, including image specs, formatting guidelines, versioning protocols, and QA checklists.
Coordinate with the Product team to identify, specify, and implement site features needed to support Institute publishing requirements.
Manage the Institute's content archive, including version control for standards and assessments.
Serve as the Institute's primary operational coordinator for publishing-related workflows, working across internal teams.
Coordinate the write-up and publication process across Institute staff, ensuring drafts move through review, editing, and approval stages on schedule.
Liaise with Families and Education teams to facilitate translation of Institute outputs for family- and educator-facing audiences.
Coordinate with Communications and Marketing teams to prep Institute content for distribution across channels.
Think strategically about how Institute outputs are presented and accessed across different audience segments.
Support the development and maintenance of standards content on the Institute's website.
Prepare and package Institute content for share-out, including drafting materials for institutional audiences.
Track how audiences engage with published Institute content and bring those insights back to inform future publishing and distribution decisions.
Document and maintain clear process guides for all publishing and distribution workflows.
Identify inefficiencies or gaps in existing workflows and propose improvements.
Maintain organized records of all published outputs, versions, and distribution activity.