Brand Marketing & PR Internship

Pathway; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Frontier AI startup environment

Job summary

Pathway is seeking a highly driven Brand Marketing & PR intern to craft narratives around technical research and product developments, develop social media and content strategies, and support events and outreach. You will translate complex topics into accessible messaging, research media, and monitor AI conversations to shape Pathway’s brand in a frontier AI space.

The role is hybrid with regular presence in our Palo Alto office; compensation is based on profile and location and applicants must

Qualifications

• Strong writing, editing and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex ideas into clear messaging.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Craft narratives around technical research and product developments.
• Develop social media and content strategies.
• Support the planning and execution of events, talks and roundtables.
• Assist with media research, press materials, briefing documents and outreach preparation.
• Translate complex topics into accessible messaging.
• Monitor conversations in AI, startups and research to identify opportunities.
• Contribute to Pathway’s brand as a category-defining AI company.

Skills

Writing

Editing

Verbal communication

Job description

About Pathway

At Pathway, we believe that memory and the ability to learn on the fly is the single biggest limitation facing current transformer-based AI models. Pathway is a post-transformer neo-lab that has solved that problem. We are delivering a faster path to AGI through true continuous learning and long horizon reasoning. To learn more about BDH, visit pathway.com.

Pathway is led by co-founder & CEO Zuzanna Stamirowska, a complexity scientist who created a team consisting of AI pioneers, including CTO Jan Chorowski who was the first person to apply Attention to speech and worked with Nobel laureate Geoff Hinton at Google Brain, as well as CSO Adrian Kosowski, a leading computer scientist and quantum physicist who obtained his PhD at the age of 20. The company is backed by leading investors and advisors, including Lukasz Kaiser, co-author of the Transformer ("the T" in ChatGPT) and a key researcher behind OpenAI's reasoning models. Pathway is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

The Opportunity

We are seeking highly driven Brand Marketing & PR interns with an outstanding track record in communications, storytelling, branding, media or community-building.

You Will

• Craft narratives around technical research and product developments.
• Develop social media and content strategies.
• Support the planning and execution of events, talks and roundtables.
• Assist with media research, press materials, briefing documents and outreach preparation.
• Translate complex topics such as continual learning and benchmark results into accessible, compelling messaging.
• Monitor relevant conversations in AI, startups and research to identify communication opportunities.
• Contribute to the development of Pathway’s brand as a category-defining AI company.

Your work will play an important role in shaping the brand for the future of AI.

Requirements

Cover Letter

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You are expected to meet at least one of the following criteria:

• You have prior internship or work experience in marketing, PR, journalism, brand strategy, communications or media.
• You have built a strong portfolio of writing, campaigns, media placements, events, newsletters, social content or community initiatives.
• You have held a leadership role in a student newspaper, magazine, communications team or another high-performance student organization.
• You can provide a strong recommendation from a faculty member, editor, manager or other mentor relevant to the internship topic who knows your work well.

You

• Have strong writing, editing and verbal communication skills.
• Can understand complex ideas quickly and translate them into clear, compelling messaging.
• Are highly organized and able to manage multiple projects at once.
• Can move comfortably between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
• Are excited by AI and interested in shaping the narrative around frontier research and products.
• Are respectful of others.
• Are fluent in English.

Bonus points

• You have previously worked on communications related to AI, deep tech, research or other highly technical fields.
• You have experience building or growing social media, editorial or community channels.

Benefits

• Join an intellectually stimulating work environment.
• Be part of one of a frontier AI startup that believes in impactful research and foundational changes.

Further details

• Preferable joining date: immediate.
• Duration: 2-6 months
• Compensation: based on profile and location.
• Location: Hybrid - regular presence in our office in Palo Alto, CA is required. You must be eligible to work in the United States.