Fully remote, full-time, North America–based position
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Apply for our Head of Content position.
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The Roots of Progress Institute (RPI) is seeking a Head of Content to manage our content operations, to grow our online audience, and to tell that audience about everything we're saying and doing.
RPI is a nonprofit dedicated to building a culture of progress and restoring a bold, ambitious vision of the future. We are part of the broader progress movement that was kicked off in The Atlantic and has been profiled by BBC and Vox. Our founder and president, Jason Crawford, is quoted as a spokesman for progress in those stories, and we are known as a central organization in that movement. Our annual Progress Conference is the main event for the community, with headliners including founders of billion-dollar companies, Nobel laureates in physics and economics, and heads of government agencies like DARPA and OSTP; the conference is sold out every year with hundreds on the waitlist. Our Substack has 60,000 subscribers, and Jason has over 43,000 Twitter followers.
You will also have a lot of great material to work with: regular essays and threads from Jason and our fellows; dozens of hours of recorded talks coming out of every conference; and announcements from our fellowship, conference, and university and high school programs. Biggest of all, next year, we'll be launching Jason's book, The Progress Manifesto.
You'll report directly to Jason, and will work closely with him and with the program leads. We're a small team with Silicon Valley DNA; we operate with high autonomy and minimal process. You will amplify the work of this fantastic team.
You will uphold the highest standards for taste and quality. No slop, no clickbait, no feeding the outrage machine. We write the kind of posts we want to read. We don't pollute the epistemic commons—we clean it up.
You will own:
Your key metrics will be audience growth, engagement, and book sales.
You will have broad latitude to devise comms strategies and tactics. At the same time, you must own execution: you will have a budget for contractors like video production, but otherwise you will be a one-person comms team.
This is not a PR role: it's about managing our own audience, not about getting external media mentions or interviews. However, when we have a major media campaign, like the book launch, you will work with an external PR firm who does those things.
Examples of day-to-day tasks you might perform include: