Podcast Producer/Content Strategist

80,000 Hours are looking for a Podcast Producer/Content Strategist.

Overview:

• Full-time position
• Location: London, UK or San Francisco Bay Area (open to remote work in some cases)
• Language: English
• Salary: £47,000 to £85,000 per year; depending on skills, fit, and experience
• Applications closing: 30th November

Job Description

The 80,000 Hours Podcast aims to help the world safely navigate the transition to a flourishing future with artificial general intelligence. We focus on influencing the decisions that matter most – helping people identify high-leverage career moves and important actions they can take in their current positions.

Our episodes reach tens or hundreds of thousands of people, and we regularly hear from employees in government and at leading AI companies who find them useful. We’re also growing fast: in 2025, our listenership was around 60% higher than the same period last year. In order to further improve the usefulness and reach of our episodes, we need to increase the team’s capacity.

Responsibilities

This role would be for the “editorial generalist” — someone who can own episodes end-to-end, from helping select topics and guests through to launching the final episodes and assessing their impact.

Responsibilities for this role might include:

• Guest discovery and vetting: Identifying potential guests who could speak authoritatively on priority topics, conducting preliminary research and outreach, assessing fit for the show.
• Content-level editing: Reviewing recorded interviews and shaping the narrative flow — suggesting cuts, reordering segments, identifying sections that need clarification, and ensuring episodes are clear and compelling.
• Launch strategy and execution: Selecting engaging episode titles and thumbnails, crafting compelling opening clips and promotional materials to attract and retain audience attention, writing episode descriptions and social media copy.
• Audience learning: Understanding what the audience needs from us, gathering and channeling feedback into content improvements, tracking what resonates and why.

Role Requirements

We’re hoping to make two hires, both of whom:

• Are ambitious about impact — you want your work to meaningfully shape important conversations, not just contribute at the margins. You’re excited to take on significant challenges.
• Have strong judgement about content — you understand what makes people click, watch, and share, particularly among professional and policy audiences.
• Are clear communicators — you can articulate complex ideas plainly and concisely, making information easy for others to understand and act on. You’re comfortable discussing uncertainties in decision-making and naturally anticipate questions others might have.
• Consume a lot of audio or video podcasts — or secondarily, Substacks, AI/effective altruism Twitter, or video clips.
• Actively engage with AI/AGI developments — you follow the field, take the implications seriously, and want to contribute to better outcomes.
• Are willing to take an experimental approach, changing plans in response to what seems to resonate with the target audience.

Specific role requirements

You might be suited to this role if you:

• Have experience with at least one of:
  • Content creation and editing, whether text, video or audio
  • Content marketing
  • Social media
• Have organisational capability — you can independently manage podcast projects, preparing content and structuring episodes without much oversight
• Enjoy working across different levels — from strategy to execution
• Understand our key audiences — you understand the interests and information needs of people working across the AI policy, safety, and research landscape, or are excited to develop that understanding
• Have strong analytical and research skills — you can quickly get up to speed on complex topics and identify key considerations
• Have clear written communication — you can synthesise research and communicate findings concisely