Content Associate

By · Published August 20th, 2025 ·

Summary

80,000 Hours provides free research and support to help people find careers tackling the world’s most pressing problems. In 2025, 80,000 Hours plans to focus on explaining why and how our audience can help society safely navigate a transition to a world with transformative AI.

Over a million people visit our site each year, and thousands have changed their careers because of our work. The articles on our website are among the most important ways we help people shift their careers towards higher-impact options. We are looking for a Content Associate to help us grow the impact of the 80,000 Hours website. In this role, you’ll support the web team in a variety of ways — for example, by proofreading articles before publication, improving their clarity and quality, providing analytical support for the team, and helping ensure the site runs smoothly for millions of visitors.

This hiring round is part of a coordinated effort to grow our operations function. We’re hiring for several specific roles across different teams, and while each has its own focus, the skill sets we’re looking for are largely overlapping, so we’re running a unified hiring round. We expect some candidates might not be sure exactly which role they’re best suited for, or may not fit neatly into a single category. That’s totally fine — we welcome generalist applications and may also hire people into roles that aren’t listed but align well with our needs.

If you’re not sure which specific role to apply for, you’re welcome to submit a general application to this operations generalist role, which is designed for candidates who are broadly interested in joining the operations team.

If you’d like to apply for a specific role, here are the positions we’re currently hiring for:

Location: London, England by default, but this depends on the role. We’re also open to remote candidates whose working hours overlap with the time zone of the team they’ll primarily be working with.

Salary: Approximately £41,000 to £65,000, depending on the role and your experience.

To apply, please complete this application form by 11PM GMT on Monday, September 15 2025.

About 80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours’ goal is to get talented people working on the world’s most pressing problems. After more than 10 years of research into dozens of problem areas, we’re putting most of our focus on helping people work on positively shaping the trajectory of AI, because we think it presents the most serious and urgent challenge that the world is facing right now.

We’ve had over 10 million readers on our website, have ~600,000 subscribers to our newsletter, and have given one-on-one advice to over 6,000 people. We’ve also been one of the largest drivers of growth in the effective altruism community.

The role

As a content associate, you would support the 80,000 Hours web team flexibly across a range of articles and projects. For example:

  • Proofreading and quality assurance
    • Proofread 80,000 Hours articles before release, suggest style improvements, and check for errors.
    • Upload new articles and make changes to the site.
  • Newsletter support
    • Ensure that our newsletters are sent out error-free and on time to the over 500,000 people on our mailing list.
    • Coordinate quality assurance steps, including test emails and final readthroughs.
    • Monitor our inbox and decide when and how to reply to incoming messages.
    • Curate and draft short sections of the newsletter (e.g. recent releases, reading lists, opportunities to get involved).
  • Analytical and metrics support
    • Keep internal metrics dashboards up to date.
    • Manage and update content tracking spreadsheets to ensure smooth publication workflows.
    • Keep track of new content ideas and expert reviewers.
    • Provide analytical support for the team, improving our ability to use data to measure and increase our impact.
    • Assist in writing small internal reports to help the web team stay in sync with how changes are affecting user behaviour.
  • User feedback and research
    • Manage the gathering of feedback on our website from both readers and subject matter experts.
    • Analyse and summarise user input to help guide content and site improvements.
  • Provide flexible support across a wide range of web team articles and projects
  • Generally help grow the impact of the site.

As some indication of what success in the role might look like, over the next year, you might do things like:

  • Provide substantive comments and improvements for new research on various under-explored problem areas.
  • Restructure our systems for measuring the impact of the 80,000 Hours website, including both data-driven analysis and interviews of users and experts.
  • Help us streamline our writing and editing workflows.
  • Draft copy for high-traffic landing pages on our site.
  • Work on additional projects. We’re excited to help you double down on your strengths, based on 80,000 Hours’ needs and your personal fit. Examples of additional projects might include writing a blog post or short career review in an area of interest to you, analysing the results of our user survey, or supporting the annual review, impact evaluation, or planning processes for the web team.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for people who are:

  • Skilled at editing and writing: you’re able to express ideas clearly in writing, and enjoy improving structure, tone, and clarity in your own and others’ work.
  • Organised: you’re able to keep track of a large number of tasks at once, rarely drop balls, and follow through on your commitments. Experience managing projects is a bonus, but not essential.
  • Detail-oriented: you’re excited about getting into the weeds of our policies and processes, identifying discrepancies, and making sure we don’t miss important details.
  • Clear communicators: your communication is straightforward, you demonstrate a high level of reasoning transparency, and you enable others to easily identify the
    most important aspects of your communications.
  • Good at making decisions under uncertainty: you’re able to weigh up tradeoffs between different options and make real-world decisions under uncertainty.
  • Flexible: you’re excited about working on a variety of projects and are motivated to do what’s most valuable to push 80,000 Hours’ mission forward.
  • Excited about supporting our mission: you’re enthusiastic about getting talented people working on the world’s most pressing problems.

Previous experience

Previous experience is not required for this position.

Logistics

This is a full-time, remote-friendly role for candidates who can work in US or UK time zones (i.e. any that fall in between UTC−08:00 and UTC+1:00). We have a London office and access to a shared office in Berkeley, CA. We can sponsor UK visas, but we are not able to guarantee US visas.

The start date for this role is January 2026.

Salary and benefits

The salary will vary based on skills and experience, but to give a rough sense, we expect starting salaries to be between £41,000–65,000.

Our benefits include:

  • 25 days of paid holiday, plus public holidays
  • Private medical insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Pension scheme/retirement plan with employer contributions
  • Up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave and childcare allowance for children under five
  • £5,000 annual mental health support allowance
  • £5,000 annual self-development budget
  • The option to use 10% of your time for self-development
  • Gym, shower facilities, and unlimited free food provided at our London office

Our US benefits package is similar.

How to apply

To apply, please complete this application form by 11PM GMT on Monday, September 15 2025. We expect the application to take approximately one hour to complete.

We’re aware that factors like gender, race, and socioeconomic background can affect people’s willingness to apply for roles for which they meet many but not all the suggested attributes, and would especially like to encourage people from under-represented backgrounds to apply, even if you don’t meet all the suggested criteria.

The application process will vary depending on the candidate and role, but is likely to include 1–3 written work tests, an interview, and a multi-day in-person trial. We offer payment for work tests and trials, conditional on your location and right to work in the UK.