Public Goods Communications, Stripe

• 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

Desirable

• 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)
• We’ll need to persuade people and organisations to change course: labs changing their research paths; entrepreneurs quitting their jobs to start something new; funders reprioritising their grant programs
• 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
• If we’re successful, you’ll be instrumental in reducing CO2 in the atmosphere, ending respiratory infections, and whatever else comes next
• ‘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). Note: we are unusually obsessive about the quality of our writing!
• 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