Youth AI Safety Editor & Editorial Lead

Common Sense Media; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Common Sense Media seeks a tech editor/journalist/writer for its Youth AI Safety Institute in San Francisco. This hands-on role blends substantive editing, story development, and publishing operations to maintain high standards while speeding production.

You will edit risk assessments, research reports, and original content; translate technical material for parents, educators, policymakers, and others; develop editorial projects and respond to AI developments.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as an editor in a rigorous editorial environment covering tech and AI.
• Exceptional, substantive editing skills—the ability to see the argument, structure, evidence, and story as well as the sentence.
• Strong news judgment and an instinct for what will matter to a broader public audience.
• Experience editing complex technical, academic, or data-driven material for non-specialists.
• Interest in AI, technology, children, education, media, or the social impact of technology.

Responsibilities

• Edit AI risk assessments, research reports, surveys, and other Institute publications for clarity, accuracy, structure, accessibility, and impact.
• Translate technical material for parents, educators, policymakers, technology developers, journalists, and other general audiences.
• Maintain the rigor and independence of the Institute's work while making it compelling to audiences beyond the research community.
• Develop original editorial content (articles, essays, interviews, investigations, newsletters, and other editorial projects) about AI and kids.
• Identify opportunities to turn Institute findings and expertise into timely stories or recurring editorial franchises, and contribute original ideas.
• Help the Institute respond quickly and substantively to important developments in AI.
• Edit creator-led work and serve as editorial partner to Common Sense Media experts across formats.
• Edit scripts and other material for podcasts, video, and social platforms.
• Uphold editorial standards with fact-checking and rigorous editing of claims.
• Take the lead on individual publications from conception through publication as deputy editor.

Skills

Editorial experience

Substantive editing

News judgment

Editing complex technical material

Interest in AI/tech/children/education

Job description

Common Sense Media seeks a tech editor/journalist/writer for its Youth AI Safety Institute in San Francisco. This hands-on role blends substantive editing, story development, and publishing operations to maintain high standards while speeding production.

You will edit risk assessments, research reports, and original content; translate technical material for parents, educators, policymakers, and others; develop editorial projects and respond to AI developments.