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 Product to 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

Requirements

• 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 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.