Senior Manager, Product Marketing

CAIS • San Francisco, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI. Its Public Engagement team translates CAIS research into stories, campaigns, and activations that make AI safety accessible to mainstream audiences.

The Senior Manager, Product Marketing turns established strategies, campaign concepts, and research initiatives into effective launches and programs. The role develops audience and narrative strategies, creates launch plans and materials, coordinates internal teams and external partners, and ensures that work reaches its intended audience. Projects may include research launches, creator programs, campaigns, and major public activations.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role. The person in this position independently takes rough mandates through planning, production, launch, and measurement, while building reusable systems and maintaining a high standard of quality. The position is based on-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in product marketing or integrated campaign management.
• Experience owning launches end-to-end, ideally as an individual contributor.
• 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, including the ability to explain technical or complicated subjects simply, specifically, compellingly, and accurately across formats.
• Strong operational skills and ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, stakeholders, partners, and deadlines without close supervision.
• Strong creative judgment and ability to give useful direction and feedback to writers, designers, agencies, and other creative partners.
• Demonstrated systems thinking and ability to build repeatable playbooks and processes.
• Comfort operating autonomously as a senior individual contributor and producing work directly rather than managing through a team.
• Ability to move quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Genuine interest in AI safety and willingness to develop sufficient technical and policy fluency to communicate the subject credibly.

Nice To Haves

• Experience owning launches end-to-end as an individual contributor.

Responsibilities

• Turn complex research, ideas, or initiatives into a clear point of view about the intended audience, message, and significance.
• Plan launches as coordinated systems by defining success, sequencing workstreams, and aligning stories, assets, partners, and proof points.
• Own go-to-market execution for Public Engagement campaigns, programs, research launches, and major initiatives from brief through launch and measurement.
• Create briefs, narratives, talking points, FAQs, partner materials, creator toolkits, web pages, and other communications assets.
• Coordinate launches across creative, content, communications, partnerships, research, agencies, vendors, and external collaborators.
• Direct external agencies and vendors, maintain a high creative standard, and hold partners accountable for outcomes.
• Help build and operate programs, including creator initiatives, by developing the systems, materials, partnerships, and workflows needed to scale them.
• Monitor audiences and external conversations to keep messaging grounded, accurate, and persuasive.
• Define and track meaningful measures of success, learn from launches, and turn effective approaches into reusable playbooks.
• Directly write, build, coordinate, and ship important work as a hands-on individual contributor.

Benefits

• Health insurance for the employee and dependents
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching
• Unlimited PTO
• Lunch and dinner at the office
• Annual professional development stipend
• Access to talent working on technical and conceptual AI safety research
• Referral program with a $1,500 bonus if a referred candidate is hired and remains at CAIS for 90 days

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed