About the Role
The Project Manager will own the end-to-end process by which the Youth AI Safety Institute's work gets published, distributed, and made accessible to relevant audiences. This deeply cross-functional role sits at the intersection of content strategy, site operations, and internal coordination, ensuring the Institute's outputs reach the right people in the right form. The role offers meaningful room for growth as the Institute's publishing volume and infrastructure scales.
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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
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.
- 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.
Skills
- Content Management System (CMS) proficiency
- Cross-functional coordination
- Organizational excellence
- Attention to detail
- Process orientation
- Written communication
- Content strategy
- Audience segmentation
- Digital distribution
- Content archives management
- Version control
- Publishing standards documentation
Location
- San Francisco, California
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2-3 years experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $66,000.00 - $82,000.00 Salary/year
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision
- Matching 401(k)
- Other key benefits
- Work/life balance
About the Company
- Common Sense Media is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the research-backed information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the age of apps, algorithms, and AI.
- We rate, educate, and advocate for policies to protect and prepare kids online.
- Our ratings, research, and resources reach more than 150 million users globally, over 1.4 million educators, and more than 100,000 schools worldwide every year.
- The Youth AI Safety Institute establishes safety standards, builds open-source evaluations that AI developers can run against their models, independently tests AI products, and publishes the results to provide transparency and accountability.
- It is an independent research and testing ground dedicated to ensuring that the AI used by children is safe and developmentally appropriate.
Equal Opportunity
- Common Sense Media provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected classification or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
- Common Sense Media will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
