Head of Communications & PR

Applications deadline: We are conducting interviews actively and aim to fill this role as soon as we find someone suitable. ### THE OPPORTUNITY We are hiring our first **Head of Communications & PR** to drive Apollo's earned media presence and ensure Apollo's research and perspectives reach the right audiences. This is a US-first role: approximately 80% of focus is on the US media landscape, with UK and European engagement as genuinely secondary and tertiary markets. Apollo prioritises truth-seeking far above standard communications norms. We aim to be honest even when it could harm the organisation. Many traditional communications skills translate here, but the person we hire must see our existing credibility as Apollo's most valuable asset, never to be traded for short-term narrative advantage. This is a senior strategic role, and you will be Apollo's first communications hire, building the function from the ground up. That means owning both strategy and execution: identifying the research areas where Apollo has genuine expertise and ensuring that expertise is visible (e.g. Scheming, Loss of Control), and shifting from reactive, paper-by-paper media engagement to proactively highlighting important and underserved issues in AGI safety. In practice it also means establishing consistent processes across publications, blog, social channels, and podcast appearances, and replacing ad hoc engagement with reliable systems. The primary objective is to ensure Apollo is recognised as a credible, go-to source on frontier AI safety topics where it has genuine expertise, building the organisation's profile, ensuring the CEO's research perspective and expertise reach the audiences where they're most needed, and building crisis communications preparedness as Apollo's US profile grows. ### RESPONSIBILITIES **Strategy & narrative architecture** - Develop a high-level, long-term media strategy for Apollo as an organisation: identifying where Apollo's research expertise is most relevant to public discourse, planning how research output and public engagement fit together across the year, and sequencing major communications moments (e.g. research results) proactively rather than reactively. - Move Apollo from opportunistic, reactive media engagement to a deliberate communications approach that ensures Apollo's expertise is available when important AI safety conversations happen. - Maintain and evolve a comms calendar that maps Apollo's research agenda to relevant external moments. This will also include an annual calendar of target speaking engagements (globally) for Apollo leadership and select staff. **Strategic positioning, thought leadership & brand building** - Advise leadership on how to communicate complex technical material clearly and credibly, ensuring Apollo's research reaches relevant audiences while maintaining Apollo's commitment to honesty over organisational convenience. - Shape and execute Apollo's external communications as an organisation: establishing Apollo as a recognised, credible source on frontier AI safety issues where it has genuine expertise, ahead of individual profile work. - Build and execute a strategy to ensure Marius's (CEO) research expertise and perspective on AI safety reach the right audiences, within the context of Apollo's broader organisational communications. - Shape and execute external communications for Apollo leadership, ensuring Marius is recognised as a credible expert on AI safety issues where he has genuine knowledge. This includes identifying the research areas Apollo is best placed to speak on over the coming year, developing clear stories around those areas, and actively placing them with media outlets. This moves Apollo beyond waiting to be asked toward proactively surfacing its expertise, without prescribing policy outcomes. **Strategic research translation** - Lead the translation of technical research into clear, media-relevant materials (key findings, FAQs, briefing notes, media kits) for…