Social Comms
NOPE
πΏπ¦ Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at NOPE is open to applicants from South Africa. The estimated monthly salary is R138,750 β R231,250 ZAR. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa β whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
Important:This is a contract/part-time role: 10-20 hrs/week - rate $40-50/hrNOPE is an AI safety company with a unique goal; we do not concern ourselves with bio or cyber-risks or other Hollywood-ized alignment fantasies. We are concerned instead with the massive proliferation of relationships between humans and AI and how this affects our wellbeing and societal fabrics. Billions of conversations between people and AI are accumulating into relationships. This ranges children talking to toys, adults with AI companions, or elderly people engaging with healthcare assistants. We measure real conversations and relationships, and the trajectories of risks involved, and publish what we find, so platforms (and society) can decide when and how to act. We build ML models, track incidents, analyze new regulations, and run evaluations constantly on both raw LLMs and deployed AI. We believe you cannot foster safe and aligned AI without proprer governance and scrutiny into AI as it is truly deployed and productized. The eval space in AI is currently heavily oriented to raw LLM evals unfortuntely. We seek to change that. We seek to hold AI labs and products to account for the harms they produce.
Our mission is malleable and always changing, and we search for people who seek to help define that.
The Social Comms role: We are doing quite a lot but are very limited on social-and-community-driving capacity. The incidents and regulations we track, the whitepapers, plus our evaluations, are all lacking our commentary and voice. We want to increase our social media presence significantly and start to be a more active participant in the global conversation around AI safety and alignment.
As our social-comms person you'd take artifacts and research we produce and weave them into a consistent, human presence on the prevalent social channels: deciding what gets posted, writing it, engaging with the researchers, journalists, builders and policymakers already wrestling with these questions. You're a pundit, optimist, skeptic, researcher and writer all rolled into one.
The measure of your work would be whether the right people are actually engaging: researchers, builders, journalists, policymakers, and the ordinary users who sense something is off. No growth-hacking or engagement bait please. We would rather stay small and authoritative than sound like a brand. The work is async, any timezone, and you'd have direct access to the passionate team and to everything we publish before it's public.You will have a significant say and authorship of our blog (nascent stages still), linkedin, other social accounts, public spaces, and private community spaces that you recommend. Anything relevant to our work.You'd be a great fit if
* You care deeply about what AI is doing to human relationships and social norms; you're concerned and curious.
* You understand how LLMs work at an abstract level and the flaws they have.
* You've run or grown popular social accounts before.
* You write like a person, and you don't lean on AI to think or post for you.
* You can read a piece of research and find the three lines people will actually care about.
* You can disagree with strangers thoughtfully in public, critics included.
* You have a feel for which channels matter, and which ones aren't worth our time.
* You have experience in civic domains, public-good, policy, trust-and-safety, or non-profits.
Bonus: you have already published material relevant to AI and its proliferation and risks.
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
At R138,750/month, this role pays well above the average South African remote salary. The USD equivalent ($7,500/mo) benefits from the favourable exchange rate.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards β use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
About NOPE
NOPE is a company in the sales industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.