Editorial Director, AI Research Content & Strategy

Ifm Us; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and視ion

Bonus

401K Plan

Generous paid time off, sick leave and

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance and disability

Job summary

Institute of Foundation Models in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Content Marketing and Editorial Director to shape the editorial vision and content strategy for IFM, communicating research on foundational models to AI developers, industry influencers, policymakers, and the broader AI community. This is a hands-on role: part strategist, part editor, part publisher.

You will set the narrative, build the editorial pipeline, and personally shape flagship pieces that build the IFM brand, translating dense

Qualifications

• 8-10 years in content marketing, or research communications, ideally with some exposure to technical/scientific fields (AI, ML, or adjacent deep tech).
• A track record of developing credible, well-sourced long-form content - reports, indices, technical blog posts, as well as short-form content.
• Experience working directly with researchers or engineers to translate technical work for a broader audience.
• Work with a bias toward action.
• Excellent writing and editing skills; comfortable being the last read on anything IFM publishes externally.
• Passionate about technology, AI, Open Source-intellectually curious and always learning.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the editorial voice, calendar and content strategy end-to-end for a deeply technical lab, from long-form narrative to short-form content.
• Build relationships and partner with IFM engineers so you can sit with them and pull a sharp story out of potentially dense technical work.
• Own the editorial pipeline- Build and run the content engine. Owns the systems behind the work: how ideas are generated, prioritized, produced and distributed across formats.
• Push the work past the page. Build a video and multimedia approach where a brand story, a conference clip, and a long-form report all reach an audience in a way that is appropriate.
• Oversee IFM's owned channels(blog, social, YouTube, and potential new channels) and align them with the website/visual design function.
• Manage a social media manager
• Partner with Communications Lead, Research and Productto shape how new models, benchmarks, and demos are communicated via IFM's owned channels
• Must be able to collaborate across a team.
• Work cross functionally on an annual IFM flagship research report - coordinating with research teams, setting methodology-transparency standards, and managing the report from data to publication.
• Build out a freelance writing team over time
• Track metrics

Skills

Content marketing

Technical storytelling

Editorial excellence

Cross-functional collaboration

Research communications

Job description

Institute of Foundation Models in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Content Marketing and Editorial Director to shape the editorial vision and content strategy for IFM, communicating research on foundational models to AI developers, industry influencers, policymakers, and the broader AI community. This is a hands-on role: part strategist, part editor, part publisher.

You will set the narrative, build the editorial pipeline, and personally shape flagship pieces that build the IFM brand, translating dense