Senior External Communications Manager
S&S Activewear
Communications Generalist
Metaculus
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $90,000 - $140,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Media relations (primary): research targets, draft/send pitches, follow up, and maintain reporter relationships; aim for regular, credible placements.
- Announcements & updates: draft site announcements, feature updates, and support on regular newsletters.
- Social collaboration: propose and draft posts, threads, and replies across major platforms; run small experiments; and vary tone appropriately—from credible, stable pillar-of-community to playful/pugnacious when useful.
- Press releases: prepare and place when warranted.
- Provide copy-editing and drafting assistance on documents such as reports, briefs, and partnership materials.
Requirements
- Strong existing network of journalists/editors and recent, demonstrable placements; confident pitching across science/tech/politics.
- Strong writing and editing; fast turnaround on clean, accurate copy.
- Numerate; comfortable with probabilities/forecasts and writing about results accurately (no deep math required).
- Ideally, has knowledge of forecasting and/or prediction markets, and can communicate these topics clearly.
- Operates independently with light oversight; organized and responsive.
- Nice to have: experience posting from brand accounts; familiarity with data-driven or scientific communication.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $90,000 - $140,000 USD, depending on experience.
- insurance costs, depending on country. In the US, we reimburse up to the legal maximum under a QSEHRA plan.
- In the US, we offer a 401k plan for employees.
- We provide generous parental leave; at a minimum (though it depends on jurisdiction) 14 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 6 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.
- We encourage our employees to meaningfully engage with and attend technical conferences and community events.
- We offer travel opportunities for regular in-person working sessions and team retreats in the US and Europe.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
copy-editingdraftingmedia relationswritingforecastingprediction marketsdata-driven communicationscientific communication
Soft skills
organizationalresponsiveindependentcommunicationnetworking
