Description
Stripe is looking for an entrepreneurial netizen to lead communications for our Public Goods programs. The success of Frontier and Intercept will be contingent on building strong networks of support and cooperation in the communities where they operate (researchers, scientists, technologists, healthcare). You'll laser in on the influential voices, and build targeted strategies to shift opinions and behaviours using traditional media, podcasts, video, substackers, influencers, events, and Twitter. You'll craft compelling messaging on world-altering technologies; announce billions of dollars worth of grants and investments; publish opinionated editorial designed to inflect research fields; build communities of superfans; and manage coalitions of the world's biggest companies and philanthropic organizations.
Responsibilities
- 'Full stack' comms leadership for Intercept and Frontier, from strategy and narrative development right through to having great stories and content out in the world.
- Crafting the Intercept narrative (largely from scratch, it's very early!), and evolving the Frontier story for the next phase.
- Designing novel communications strategies from first principles to get journalists, influencers, policymakers, and substackers excited about these programs.
- Writing excellent communications (i.e. announcements, social media posts, or opinion pieces).
- Partner with experts and leaders in the Frontier and Intercept teams: soliciting their ideas and expertise to inform the strategy, preparing them for media or podcast appearances, and building their profiles among important audiences.
- Build excellent relationships with our partners (both funders and portfolio companies and projects) in pursuit of carefully orchestrated communications across many stakeholders
Who you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.
Minimum requirements
- Comfort with highly complex and technical subject matter; you don't need to be a scientist yourself, but you will need to keep up with some very fast-moving ones on the team.
- A superlative writer with a proven ability to translate complex, dense, technical information into compelling communications but which maximise fidelity.
- High agency and autonomy: identifying gaps or risks, seeking out the context, and bringing fully formed ideas for leadership approval.
- Experience in or around online movements which prize first-principles thinking, entrepreneurialism, and speed, like Silicon Valley, Progress, or Effective Altruism.
- A strong intuition for how and why ideas spread, particularly on the internet.