Journalist-in-Residence — The AI Lab
About Us
The AI Lab is a research-oriented advisory community working at the intersection of AI, executive strategy, and employee education and empowerment. Our leadership team and expert advisors bring combined decades of experience in language models, generative AI, and agentic AI, dating back to the earliest days of research and commercial deployment 15 years ago. We work closely with academic institutions, including an ongoing collaboration with Harvard's D^3 Institute, and business leaders, to make sense of what's happening in AI and what it means for the people and organizations navigating it.
We're not a media company, and we don't lead with a sales pitch. People work with us and invest in what we do because the value is self-evident. But every week, we have conversations with founders, researchers, policymakers, clients, and each other that are too good to keep inside our walls. We're looking for someone to help us share those conversations with the world.
You'll also be embedded at the center of one of the most consequential shifts of our time, and we want you to bring what you're seeing, thinking, and following to the work, not just what you hear from us.
The Role
We're hiring a journalist on contract, not a marketer, not a social media manager, to serve as an in-house editorial voice for the meaningful trends and insights we encounter around AI every week.
This is a fully remote, freelance/contract role at 8–10 hours per week. Your job is to regularly interview our CEO, internal team, clients, academic partners and close advisors, and turn those conversations into clear, compelling content that's useful to people thinking seriously about AI.
This is equal parts listening and writing. You'll sit in on internal conversations, interviews, advisory sessions, and podcasts. You'll identify the threads that matter, and you'll turn them into content across multiple formats: written pieces, short video clips, podcast highlights, and social posts.
What you'll do:
- Conduct weekly interviews with our leadership, partners, clients (with permission), and members of our broader network, including researchers and faculty at Harvard's D^3 Institute, where we maintain an active collaboration
- Attend and observe internal strategy conversations, advisory sessions, and live events to surface insights worth sharing
- Write 2–3 LinkedIn posts per week that distill real conversations into sharp, accessible perspectives on what's happening in AI
- Produce 2–4 longer-form pieces per month for external publication: essays, Q&As, reported perspectives. Our leadership has already been featured in Harvard Business Review and other trade journals, and we want to build on that momentum with a more intentional editorial strategy. You'll help identify the right outlets and pitch the right pieces
- Edit and package short-form video clips from our podcast and recorded conversations for social distribution
- Develop and maintain a consistent editorial voice that feels human, curious, and grounded. Never salesy, never performative
- Build and manage a lightweight editorial calendar, working with leadership to identify the most timely and relevant topics each week
- Develop original pieces informed by your own research, trend-watching, and firsthand observation of how AI is reshaping industries, organizations, and decision-making. You'll have the access and the latitude to pursue the threads that matter to you
- Over time, help shape our editorial point of view and identify new formats, channels, or collaborations worth exploring
The Podcast
We already produce a long-form interview series with AI thought leaders that has a growing audience. We're looking to invest significantly more in this part of our platform and partner with the right person to scale it. You would own the editorial side, with a lot of latitude to shape new series and companion formats alongside our existing show.
The format is flexible. Some weeks it might be a solo episode where you break down a trend or unpack a thread from one of our advisory conversations. Other weeks, you and our CEO sit down together for a shorter, more conversational segment. The mix will evolve over time based on what resonates.
You don't need to be a podcast producer. We'll bring in production support separately for audio engineering, editing, and publishing. What we need from you is the editorial instinct: knowing what's worth an episode, asking the right questions, and making complex ideas feel accessible in someone's earbuds.
Who You Are
- You have 5–10+ years of experience in journalism, editorial, or a closely related field, ideally covering business, technology, policy, or the intersection of these
- You're a strong interviewer who knows how to make people feel comfortable and draw out the thing they didn't know they were going to say
- You can write a tight 150-word LinkedIn post and a thoughtful 1,500-word essay with equal skill
- You're comfortable working with video and audio content. You don't need to be a professional editor, but you know how to identify a compelling 60-second clip
- You're genuinely curious about AI, not because it's trendy but because you find the questions it raises interesting
- You have good editorial judgment. You know the difference between something that's actually insightful and something that just sounds smart
- You're self-directed and comfortable working in a small, fast-moving environment without a lot of structure
- You care about accuracy, nuance, and not oversimplifying things for the sake of engagement
What This Is Not
This is not a content marketing role. You will not be writing SEO blog posts, managing paid campaigns, or optimizing for conversions. There are no lead-gen metrics. The measure of success is whether smart, thoughtful people find our content worth reading and sharing.
A note on AI-generated content: We do not want someone who uses AI to write for them. Using AI as a light thinking partner, to pressure-test your own ideas or suggest edits on a draft you've already written, is fine. But we are not looking for AI-influenced or AI-shortcutted content. If we wanted that, we could set it up ourselves for practically nothing. The entire point of this role is a human voice capturing real conversations and real insight. That's what's valuable to the community we serve, and it's not something AI can replicate.
Details
- Location: Fully remote, with occasional in-person availability for key interviews, events, and recordings
- Type: Freelance/contract, 8–10 hours per week, with a 90-day minimum engagement
- Reports to: Co-founders
Compensation
$70 – $90/hour, depending on experience. There is potential to grow the scope of the role over time for the right person.
How to Apply
Send us:
- A short note (no cover letter template, please. Just tell us why this sounds like your kind of thing)
- 2–3 writing samples that show range, ideally a mix of short-form and long-form, and at least one piece based on an interview. These can be existing published pieces.
