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About us

80,000 Hours aims to make a big positive impact by helping people find careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. To do that, we need to reach out to new people in our target audience and engage them with our programmes.

According to the EA Survey, we are the single largest source of new people joining the effective altruism community, important to nearly 60% of people who got involved — a share that’s grown each year since 2019.

Since launching our marketing programme in 2022, we’ve reached millions of new users, and grown to over 500,000 newsletter subscribers. We have deployed around $2 million a year across digital ads, YouTube sponsorships, and other marketing activities, and we’re aiming to scale quickly over the next few years.

The role

Our primary need is a Marketer who’ll own deployment of our digital ads, who would be energised by taking on a flexible and dynamic portfolio of marketing work across different objectives, programmes, and channels.

New marketing hires will own budgets in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per year — millions if they can deploy ambitiously.

Audience research and strategy

The audience we most want to reach is niche and unusual, so conventional marketing wisdom will not always apply. You’ll improve our confidence that we’re reaching and engaging the people our programmes are most useful for,

About us

80,000 Hours helps people find careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Our AI in Context YouTube channel makes documentary-style videos about transformative AI — its implications, the risks (including existential risks), and what people can do about it. We’ve published three videos so far (all with 1M+ views), and we want to hone our production.

The role

This is a role with a wide surface area. We want someone who can take ownership of operational work across the team and keep grabbing new areas as they emerge. The specific mix will shift over time, but the work includes things like:

Production logistics: Working with vendors, booking studios, acting as production lead on shoots.

Hiring pipelines: Running searches for new team members and contractors, writing and evaluating work tests, designing and running work trials.

Launch operations: Writing copy, coordinating across stakeholders, making sure we have all the branding materials ready.

Distribution and social: Getting videos in front of more people, including international audiences (for example, Chinese social media platforms like Bilibili and WeChat). Thinking about how to extend the reach of work we’ve already made.

Creating more content: Developing a vision for a second channel based on the kind of content we already make, and coordinating the work needed to make it happen.

The team and role

Our operations team (15 full-time staff) runs HR, recruiting, finance, governance, legal, office management, events and some of our tech systems. We’re planning to grow significantly this year to keep pace with the growth of the organisation.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Planning and delivering events that bring the org together: the annual retreat, lunch-and-learns, office socials, Christmas and summer parties, and occasional external events like networking evenings with people working on AI safety. This would include event design, logistics, venue and vendor work, running things onsite, and collecting feedback to improve each round.
• Taking on specific office projects — for example, AV upgrades in meeting rooms, piloting catered lunches, fitting out a proper podcast studio, or helping the office scale well as the team grows.
• Maintaining and improving our internal comms infrastructure (Slack, Gathertown, virtual events) so information flows cleanly and the org stays aligned as we grow.
• Owning parts of the remote staff experience end-to-end: equipment provisioning, togetherness weeks, virtual events, and ensuring cohesion between remote, hybrid and in-person staff.
• Identifying opportunities to streamline, standardise, and automate — including using AI where helpful — so routine work runs reliably and the team’s time goes to the problems that need judgement.
• Stepping in when other teams at the org hit an ops capacity crunch — e.g. covering for someone on leave, helping a team through a high-pressure project,

The team and role

Our operations team (15 full-time staff) runs HR, recruiting, finance, governance, legal, office management, events and some of our tech systems. We’re planning to grow significantly this year to keep pace with the growth of the organisation.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Building and running people operations systems that work for 50+ staff today and are ready to scale well beyond that — including onboarding and offboarding, visa sponsorship, payroll, benefits, and contractor management
• Running our annual organisation-wide feedback round and analysing the results to help us continually improve
• Developing our approach to people practices — including leave, employment types, and benefits — and translating these into policies and guidance
• Identifying opportunities to streamline, standardise, and automate people operations processes — including using AI where helpful — so that routine work runs reliably and the team’s time goes to the problems that need judgement
• Managing employer-of-record relationships and supporting staff based outside the UK, including thinking through our overall approach to benefits parity across countries and where we’re able to hire
• Ensuring compliance with employment law and best practices across multiple jurisdictions, and keeping our HR documentation up to date
• Supporting the People team leadership with HR‑related queries, performance processes, and conflict resolution

We plan to hire people at both the associate and specialist levels during this round. We expect to match candidates to the appropriate level as part of the application process,

The team and role

Our operations team (15 full-time staff) runs HR, recruiting, finance, governance, legal, office management, events and some of our tech systems. We’re planning to grow significantly this year to keep pace with the growth of the organisation.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Designing and running hiring rounds — helping team leads identify the talent profiles they’re looking for, design assessment pipelines, and source and evaluate candidates. This is likely to be the biggest part of your role.
• Building and improving our org-wide recruiting infrastructure to improve how our recruitment processes run. For example, developing templates and playbooks for recurring hiring rounds, creating systems to process applications at scale, or testing new ways of generating leads.
• Taking ownership of a particular area of our recruiting process, e.g. proactive outreach to potential candidates, our applicant tracking system, recruiting metrics.
• Helping us develop our approach to strategic recruiting questions, such as diversity, candidate use of LLMs, or the prioritisation of hiring rounds.
• Strengthening 80k’s ability to find and attract the best talent, such as by building our talent pipeline or making 80k more visible as a place people want to work for.

We plan to hire people at both the associate and specialist level during this round. We expect to match candidates to the appropriate level as part of the application process, so you don’t need to decide which one to apply for.

The role

80,000 Hours provides free career advice to people working on the world’s most pressing problems, including how to help society safely navigate a transition to a world with transformative AI. Advising is how that reaches individuals one at a time: 10–12 conversations a week with people who want to do work that matters.

In the conversations, you’ll think on your feet. What’s this person’s comparative advantage? Do they have a realistic picture of the problems they want to work on, and if not, can you give them one? Which introduction or piece of pushback is most likely to shift what they do next? You’re making these calls live, often with people who know their field better than you do, and those decisions can change the shape of a career.

Beyond the conversations themselves, we’re excited to hire advisors who could take ownership of how our programme runs and who it reaches. Depending on your strengths, your interests, and what the team needs, this could include:

• Lead generation and outreach strategy. Own where our bar sits for who we talk to and how we reach them: active outreach, partnerships, targeted advertising, and events.
• Impact evaluation. Design and run the analyses that tell us whether advising is working, and where we should put more effort to make it better.
• Grantmaking. Build a clearer strategy for when small grants unblock a career move,

About the 80,000 Hours Web Team

80,000 Hours is a nonprofit that helps people find careers tackling the world’s most pressing problems. Our web team produces 80000hours.org, an ever-evolving library of engaging, informative resources that introduces talented people to important frameworks, problems, and career paths, and helps them take action on pursuing a high-impact career. The site receives 3.5 million visits per year and is the gateway to all of 80,000 Hours’ other programmes.

The web team also produces a research newsletter, which promotes content and opportunities to get involved, and goes out to 500,000 subscribers per week.

See how the web team fits into 80,000 Hours’ broader strategy.

About the role

As the Web Product Lead, your mission would be to make our online content more helpful and more delightful for our audience to engage with — and in doing so, drive up both readership and the number of visitors who take a meaningful next step toward high-impact careers.

This is a senior, high-ownership role. If you’re in this role, you’ll ultimately own product strategy for the site and related products, manage our web engineer, and build your team from there. You’ll report directly to the web programme director, Arden Koehler, and work with our managing editor on content prioritisation. It’ll be your job to figure out what our audience most wants and how to deliver it in a way that helps them have higher-impact careers.

About the 80,000 Hours Web Team

80,000 Hours is a nonprofit that helps people find careers tackling the world’s most pressing problems. Our web team produces 80000hours.org, an ever-evolving library of engaging, informative resources that introduces talented people to important frameworks, problems, and career paths, and helps them take action on pursuing a high-impact career. The site receives 3.5 million visits per year and is the gateway to all of 80,000 Hours’ other programmes.

The web team also produces a research newsletter, which promotes content and opportunities to get involved, and goes out to 500,000 subscribers per week.

See how the web team fits into 80,000 Hours’ broader strategy.

About the role

As Product and Growth Manager, your mission would be to make our online content more helpful and more delightful for our audience to engage with — and in doing so, drive up both readership and the number of visitors who take a meaningful next step toward high-impact careers.

Your first projects would likely include taking over and shipping our beta career quiz to a larger audience and leading a visual redesign for the main site – choosing a concept, working closely with designers and engineers to build it, measuring its success, and iterating.

Key responsibilities:

• Visual design for 80000hours.org
• Creating new ways to present content
• Experiments to improve the site for users and increase conversion rates
• Creative decision-making on major new pages
• Owning our approach to analytics

This is a high-growth role.

About us

80,000 Hours helps people find careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Our AI in Context YouTube channel makes documentary-style videos about transformative AI — its implications, the risks (including existential risks), and what people can do about it. We’ve published three videos so far (all with 1M+ views), and we want to hone our production.

The role

Aric does his best work when someone with deep context on the script is right next to him or live on a call. It’s a mix of writing, editing, ‘rubber ducking’ (being someone to bounce ideas against), and project management.

Core writing support

This is the core of the role. Your job on a high level: do as much of the metacognition as possible so Aric can focus on the writing itself.

That looks like things like:

• “What’s your daily goal and how do we play the day from that?”
• “Are you avoiding any part of the writing?”
• “How did the last 15 minutes go?”
• “What is the viewer going to think at this point in the story?”
• Reading the script and giving a take on how the narrative is going
• Being warmly disagreeable if he suggests a plan you think won’t work
• Developing a model of how he works and what gets him stuck

Project managing the script

Beyond the in-the-room thinking partner stuff,

About us

80,000 Hours helps people find careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Our AI in Context YouTube channel makes documentary-style videos about transformative AI — its implications, the risks (including existential risks), and what people can do about it. We’ve published three videos so far (all with 1M+ views), and we want to hone our production.

The role

We’re looking for an executive assistant to work closely with Aric Floyd, our on-camera host and one of our primary scriptwriters, and help with the daily logistics of a fast-paced creative production environment.

The core of the job: working with Aric to support his prioritization, planning, and communication with the team. You’d be a force multiplier for someone whose highest-value work is scripting, filming, and storytelling. You’re also developing a deep sense of how Aric thinks and works so you can suggest improvements to his workflow and be increasingly helpful over time.

What you’d actually do

Daily priority planning: Each day (or more often as needed), compile a priority-ordered plan for Aric based on what’s happening across Slack, his calendar, the team standup doc, and any flagged items from his manager. The plan should read like a schedule for his day — time-blocked, with reasoning.

Make sure to grab any asks for him from Slack or email and flag them in priority order.

About us

80,000 Hours helps people find careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Our AI in Context YouTube channel makes documentary-style videos about transformative AI — its implications, the risks (including existential risks), and what people can do about it. We’ve published three videos so far (all with 1M+ views), and we want to keep making excellent videos.

The role

Aric is responsible for a huge array of tasks: writing, communications, stakeholder management, research, outreach, title/thumbnail iteration, and more. This role aims to support and multiply his impact by focusing on these functions:

Writing partner, editor, and contributor

Our main bottleneck as a team is how many excellent scripts we can produce, and Aric is currently one of our primary scriptwriters. Aric does his best work when someone with deep context is right next to him or live on a call, able to give opinions about the script.

You’d give both synchronous and asynchronous substantive feedback on narrative and argument, read drafts with a viewer’s brain (“where would I click away? Where am I confused?”), push on story structure, challenge framing, bring references from other creators, and develop taste for the AI in Context style.

Ideally you’re deep enough in the material that you can write a rough version of a script section that Aric can react to. This means doing passes where you’re actually rewriting (not just commenting),