[Hiring] Senior Communications Officer, Editorial & Production @GiveWell

Role Description

We’re hiring a Senior Communications Officer, Editorial & Production to lead the editorial quality and production of GiveWell’s communications. You will set the editorial bar, build the people and systems needed to produce excellent work consistently and at increasing scale, and personally shape some of our most complex and consequential content.

This role reports to Steven Profaizer, our Vice President of Communications, and will lead a small and growing team. This is one of three new communications leadership roles, alongside a Senior Communications Officer, Strategic Communications and a Senior Communications Officer, Media & Public Affairs.

Specific duties will include:

• Own the editorial quality and production of GiveWell’s communications, ensuring that our work is clear, accurate, useful, carefully reasoned, and delivered on time.
• Build and manage the workflows, editorial standards, review processes, and production systems that allow GiveWell to create consistently excellent content at increasing scale.
• Lead planning, prioritization, and resource allocation for GiveWell’s owned-content portfolio, managing dependencies and moving complex projects from concept through publication.
• Uphold GiveWell’s voice and editorial standards across everything we publish, and help colleagues across the organization write within them.
• Own the development of GiveWell’s recurring communications and reporting products, turning established priorities and messaging into clear, accurate content.
• Personally create, edit, or substantially shape our most complex, sensitive, or high-priority content.
• Oversee GiveWell’s website content operations, including the people and processes responsible for routine updates and publishing.
• Serve as a senior editorial and production partner to teams across GiveWell, helping shape high-priority projects early, determine the right format and production approach, and establish clear roles, review paths, and timelines.
• Oversee the production of design, visual, and multimedia assets across GiveWell’s channels, and the internal team and external contractors who create them.
• Manage and develop one or two team members initially, and determine how the function’s team and capabilities should grow over time.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading editorial and content-production work.
• Significant experience leading communications in complex, high-stakes environments.
• Exceptional communications judgment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A track record of building and leading teams.
• Recent, hands-on excellence at your craft.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to engage deeply with GiveWell’s research and ideas.
• Strong alignment with GiveWell’s mission and values.

Requirements

• Skilled at using communications to help people understand complex ideas, build trust, and take action.
• Comfortable being accountable for outcomes and making consequential decisions with limited oversight.
• Precise editor of complex or technical content.
• Ability to combine high standards for individual work with operational judgment.
• Experience advising executives or other senior decision-makers directly.

Benefits

• Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% of premiums covered within the US for you and any dependents).
• Four weeks of paid time off per year.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships.
• 403(b) retirement plan.