About us

At Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good. Since launching in 2015, we’ve raised over $10 billion for the most impactful social causes. We offer the simplest path to impact for successful entrepreneurs, providing end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a worldwide network of experts. In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our 1700+ members include the people behind industry-leading companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.

About the role

We’re looking for a Research Communicator to join us in order to help us drive donations to high-impact charities, communicate our worldview and research methodology, and shape the conversation around effective giving. You’ll be an integral part of our Research team, but you’ll also work closely with partners across Founders Pledge including our FP Comms team and our professional philanthropic Advisors. Ultimately, you’ll be responsible for bridging the gap between research and impact. Success in this role will mean the donation of tens of millions of dollars more to high-impact charities.

Find out more about our our Approach to Charity and How We Think About Charity Evaluation.

You’ll be the Research team’s in-house communications expert, shaping our research into legible and persuasive writing for Founders Pledge members, the media, and the general public. In this varied role, you’ll be flexing your writing abilities, turning quantitative research into digestible comms, and building relationships with the media and other thought leaders. You’ll also have the freedom and autonomy to write and pitch original pieces that support FP’s mission.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Turning raw research products into polished, publicly shareable writing that remains technically accurate, while also clear and persuasive for the lay reader. These internal products include grant evaluations, research memos, and cost-effectiveness analyses.

• Working with internal stakeholders at Founders Pledge, you’ll develop language used to pitch charities to potential donors, explain FP’s “house view” on methodological questions, and handle common objections.

• Collaborating with our Comms team to ensure our research communications outputs complement the broader Founders Pledge comms strategy and align with our brand.

• Writing compelling content for FP’s website. You’ll turn our research into web content and blogs, social media posts, supporting materials for senior stakeholders attending events, etc. You’ll rewrite our research reports or sections of research reports for wider consumption.

• Media outreach. You’ll help pitch specific publications to the media. This could be traditional news media, but also podcast hosts, influential bloggers, and academics.

• Generating original pieces packaging research insights for a wide audience. You’ll do this both in partnership with researchers on the team and independently, as the sole author of such pieces.

• Responding to media queries on questions relevant to FP’s research.

About you

You’re likely either a researcher type with very strong writing skills, or a writer with unusually strong technical understanding. Great candidates will likely have experience in journalism, think tank and/or non-profit communication, as well as experience editing and condensing raw research outputs/quantitative information into publicly accessible formats. 

However, we are open to candidates from a variety of backgrounds: if you are a strong, clear, quick writer who is also able to extract quantitative estimates from social science papers and quickly understand new technical topics, we want to hear from you.

Specifically, we’re looking for:

• Experience communicating difficult technical concepts to a lay audience.

• Experience writing for publication, e.g. as a freelance writer or journalist.

• Scientific literacy, the ability to understand and synthesize scientific publications.

• A strong passion for creating engaging, tailored content, on a variety of media, including digital platforms, to influence and further enhance our reputation. You’ll have the opportunity to flex your strong writing skills.

• A keen interest in our main cause areas and ability to effectively communicate across a variety of channels. 

• A good understanding of relevant research methodologies.

• An in-depth knowledge of at least one of our primary cause areas (nice to have).

• Experience with PR and/or building relationships with the media, ideally with established relationships with different media outlets (nice to have).

Why work with us?

You can find more about the benefits we offer here, but what makes us truly special is both our mission and our people. We’re a diverse team, from both charitable and commercial backgrounds, who believe that amazing things can happen when we tackle problems together. We offer a flat structure and an opportunity to help shape the future of philanthropy.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Founders Pledge. We seek people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who share our drive to understand and solve complex social challenges. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems requires different perspectives and unique ways of thinking and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can do their best work.