80,000 Hours are looking for a Content Associate to join their team.

Overview:

• Full-time position
• Language: English
• Location: London, UK; 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)
• Salary: £41,000 – £65,000 per year
• Applications closing: 15th September

Job Description

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Other

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.

Role Requirements

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.

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.