Communications Director / Potential Cofounder Opportunity

Create the narrative and train the voices of the movement.

You’ll design the messaging strategy, manage the Spokes Council (rotating diverse spokespeople), and ensure AI safety risks are framed clearly and compellingly across partisan lines. You’ll make the movement feel alive, inclusive, and disciplined, with a rotating public face from our membership.

More broadly, shape the narrative around AI for this movement. You’ll craft messages that make complex AI risks accessible and actionable for diverse audiences while maintaining scientific accuracy. This role requires translating risks from AI, including existential risk, into compelling calls-to-action.

This is a leadership team position, with the opportunity to shape humanity’s response to risks from AI starting from zero. (There is also potential to join as a cofounder, depending on experience.) Join the Executive Director in crafting this organization and getting it off the ground.

About Us

Humans in Control is a new grassroots movement focused on AI safety and existential risk reduction. Our aim is to translate public concern into sustained political pressure that ensures artificial intelligence is developed and deployed safely, transparently, and responsibly.

We are not a “grasstops” lobbying shop. Instead, we are building a distributed, grassroots organization:

• Affinity groups (8–12 people) that meet weekly for campaign actions and community.
• Constituency-specific engagement (parents, faith leaders, engineers, students, health professionals, lawyers, artists…)
• Quarterly campaign “spikes” coordinated nationally (letters, teach-ins, district meetings, media pushes).
• State legislative focus — we support and amplify existing AI safety legislation through testimony, constituent pressure, and coalition partnerships.

Our leadership model is deliberately distributed:

• The Executive Director anchors strategy and keeps the AI safety focus.
• A Spokes Council and trained local leaders carry the charisma and storytelling.
• Directors of Policy, Organizing, Communications, and Operations own their lanes and co-lead the organization as peers.

We’re seeking founding team members and board leaders to help build this from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Develop this movement’s communication strategy
• Develop and continuously test messaging across bipartisan demographics
• Build and manage a Spokes Council (parents, clergy, youth, engineers, clinicians).
• Train affinity group leaders and volunteers in message discipline and “movement talk”.
• Manage earned media, digital channels, and rapid response.
• Create crisis communications protocols for AI incidents or movement controversies
• Build relationships with journalists across the political spectrum
• Work with technical subject matter experts to ensure accuracy
• Produce compelling content: op-eds, explainer videos, campaign materials, social assets, newsletters
• Support fundraising with clear, emotionally resonant donor communications

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years in political/campaign communications and/or grassroots messaging
• Track record of earned media wins and social media growth
• Experience with crisis comms and controversial issues
• Skilled in distributed networks (can maintain message discipline across volunteers)
• Genuine concern for risks from AI, including potential existential risks (mitigating risks from extinction from AI due to loss of control from advanced future AI e.g. here, here, here)
• Strong internal communicator, adaptive and responsive to feedback and developments
• Strong strategist and executor: building the movement’s communications from the ground up
• Unwavering commitment to truth-tracking and non-deceptive messaging

Ideal Candidates Bring

• Background in technology communications or complex policy issues
• Experience in regulated/controversial messaging environments
• Experience navigating controversial or complex technical topicsn
• Success with A/B testing and data-driven message optimization
• Bipartisan comms experience; ability to avoid political polarization
• Strong media network across partisan lines

Anticipated Start

Q1 - Q2 2026

Reporting Structure

Reports to the Executive Director, or joins as a cofounder.

As Communications Director, you’ll own messaging, media relationships, and training spokespeople — ensuring message discipline across the distributed movement.

Location

Remote with regular travel required (must be authorized to work in US and work US timezone)

Compensation

$XXX base + performance bonuses tied to movement growth metrics + benefits package

How to Apply

Email contact@humansincontrol.org with your resume or CV.

Get this movement off the ground as we aim to shape the AI landscape for the better.