Project Manager (Youth AI Safety Institute)

Job DetailsJob Location: San Francisco - SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103Position Type: Full TimeSalary Range: $66,000.00 - $82,000.00 Salary/yearProject Manager (Youth AI Safety Institute)


Common Sense Media is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the research-backed information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the age of apps, algorithms, and AI. We rate, educate, and advocate for policies to protect and prepare kids online. Our ratings, research, and resources reach more than 150 million users globally, over 1.4 million educators, and more than 100,000 schools worldwide every year. Learn more at commonsense.org. 

 

The Opportunity


Launched in May 2026, the Youth AI Safety Institute is Common Sense Media's newest addition to its programmatic pillar. The Institute establishes safety standards, builds open-source evaluations that AI developers can run against their models, independently tests AI products, and publishes the results to provide transparency and accountability. It is an independent research and testing ground dedicated to ensuring that the AI used by children is safe and developmentally appropriate. 

The Project Manager will own the end-to-end process by which the Institute's work—risk assessments, standards, briefs, and other outputs—gets published, distributed, and made accessible to the audiences that matter. This is a deeply cross-functional role that sits at the intersection of content strategy, site operations, and internal coordination, working across the Institute team and with Common Sense Media's Communications, Marketing, Product, and Editorial teams to ensure that what the Institute produces reaches the right people in the right form.

This is a role with meaningful room to grow as the Institute's publishing volume and infrastructure scales. The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating across both the operational and strategic dimensions of content publishing, from managing image specs and CMS workflows to thinking about how different audiences engage with Institute content.

 

Location: San Francisco, California

Reports To: Head of AI & Digital Assessments

Salary: $66,000–$82,000
Type: Full-time, exempt


What You'll Do

Publishing Operations & Site Management


Own the backend publishing workflow for all Institute output, including risk assessments, standards documentation, research briefs, and related materials.
Manage CMS operations for Institute content: uploading, formatting, QAing, and maintaining published pages to ensure accuracy, consistency, and accessibility.
In collaboration with Common Sense Media's Brand and Marketing teams, develop and maintain publishing standards and process documentation, including image specs, formatting guidelines, versioning protocols, and QA checklists, so that publishing is consistent and reproducible across all output types.
Coordinate with Common Sense Media's Product team to identify, specify, and implement site features needed to support Institute publishing requirements (e.g., standards display formats, risk assessment archives, versioning infrastructure).
Manage the Institute's content archive, including version control for standards and assessments, so that published materials are traceable and up to date.


Cross-Functional Coordination


Serve as the Institute's primary operational coordinator for publishing-related workflows, working across internal teams including Communications, Marketing, Product, and the Families and Education editorial teams.
Coordinate the write-up and publication process across Institute staff, ensuring that drafts move through review, editing, and approval stages on schedule.
Liaise with Common Sense Media's Families and Education teams to facilitate translation of Institute outputs for family- and educator-facing audiences, ensuring the handoff is smooth, well documented, and timely.
Coordinate with the Communications and Marketing teams to prep Institute content for distribution across channels, including newsletters, social media, and partner share-outs.


Content Strategy & Audience Distribution


Think strategically about how Institute outputs are presented and accessed across different audience segments (including researchers, policymakers, industry, and institutional stakeholders) and surface recommendations for how content structure, format, and distribution can better serve those audiences.
Support the development and maintenance of standards content on the Institute's website, including thinking through how standards are formatted, navigated, and updated for public audiences.
Prepare and package Institute content for share-out, including drafting materials for institutional audiences (newsletters, briefing summaries, release communications) in coordination with the Head of AI & Digital Assessments.