Head of Movement Building

Title: Head of Movement Building

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California

Employment type: Full-time

Compensation: $110,000 - $140,000 per annum, depending on experience and qualifications, with competitive benefits package

Reporting structure: Reports to CEO

Contact: careers@evitable.com

Application form: link

Start date: April - May 2026

About Evitable

Evitable is a nonprofit organization with a mission to make people aware of the dangers of AI, and to empower communities to resist the trajectory of AI development. A small number of AI companies are racing to create artificial “superintelligence” – AI systems that far exceed human capabilities, which they believe will give their creators unprecedented power. These companies openly admit they do not fully understand what they are building, and that their work poses massive risks, such as mass unemployment, mass surveillance, and human extinction. Despite this, AI is being deployed across society with little-to-no oversight or accountability. This path is not inevitable. Our vision is that in ten years time, the race to develop superintelligence will be a thing of the past, and people will look back and say “What were we thinking?”

About the Role

Evitable is hiring an organizer to lead this work. You will design the strategy, recruit the founding base, and lay the foundations for a movement capable of generating real pressure on one of the most consequential issues of our time. We currently has one employee working on organizing part-time.

You will work directly with the CEO to create a strategic vision and turn it into reality. This means considerable execution alongside strategic thinking, especially in the early months. You will be closely connected to the CEO and all aspects of Evitable’s work, with significant input into how we grow and evolve. Coming in as one of our first hires, you will help define what this movement becomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and own the movement strategy, bringing recommendations to the CEO for sign-off.

  • Drive grass-roots movement growth, including awareness, buy-in, and activation around Evitable’s core messages: the urgent need to stop AI in order to reduce societal-scale risks to acceptable levels.

  • Recruit, train, and develop a cohort of volunteer leaders who can take on organizing responsibilities.

  • Build and manage relationships with coalition partners, allied organizations, and potential supporters.

  • Work with Communications staff and contractors to test and refine audience-specific framings

  • Design and run collective actions and public-facing campaigns, coordinating closely with Communications and external partners on messaging and timing.

  • Establish a regular cadence of supporter engagement and track progress across the supporter base, distinguishing between AI safety community uptake and mainstream public uptake.

  • Produce assessments of what is working, what is not, and what capacity is needed to scale, and present findings to the CEO.

  • Contribute to fundraising efforts by providing input on movement activities and early wins.

  • Help scope and hire junior movement roles as the organization grows.

Working Style

You will report directly to the CEO and work day-to-day alongside Communications, with secondary support from the Chief of Staff. The team is small, scrappy, and still developing its operational approach.

You will have significant day-to-day autonomy over how you build and run the movement. The CEO will set strategic direction and make final calls on positioning, messaging, and major decisions. You should be comfortable operating independently within that framework: bringing initiative, structure, and judgement to your work, while keeping the CEO informed and seeking sign-off on key decisions.

What We Are Looking For

Experience

  • Significant experience in grassroots movement building, campaign organizing, or advocacy. Ideally you will already be at a senior level, or looking to make a step up

  • Direct experience building a movement, campaign, or organizing program from an early stage, not just managing an existing one. Someone who has been the first or second organizer at a growing campaign is ideal.

  • A track record of recruiting, training, and developing volunteer programs

  • Experience running collective actions, public campaigns, or advocacy drives with measurable outcomes

  • Comfort operating in early-stage environments

Skills and Attributes

  • Strategic thinker who can also execute: you can develop, deliver and delegate on a theory of change

  • Strong relationship builder with the ability to bring together people with different ideas and backgrounds

  • Comfortable with ambiguity and able to bring structure to it

  • Excellent communicator in rooms, in writing, and one-on-one

  • Self-directed and proactive; you do not wait to be told what to do

  • Collaborative and receptive to direction, with the maturity to work within a clear leadership structure without friction

  • Resilience to challenges and the ability to maintain motivation and momentum among movement members in challenging situations

Mission Alignment

You do not need experience with AI risk, governance, or activism. But you do need to be aligned with Evitable’s mission, and genuinely willing to engage deeply with AI risk, and pre-existing interest and familiarity with AI or related issues will be helpful in this role. You will need to deeply understand and stay up to date on the landscape of AI, AI risk, and AI activism; this includes relevant social and intellectual movements, partners and adversaries, and relevant elements and organizations of civil society. You need enough understanding to develop credible strategy, speak to a wide range of audiences, and make a compelling case for urgent action.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. 

The hiring process is not fixed but includes:

  • Application form

  • 30-minute screening call 

  • Paid work test

  • 30-minute interview with a panel

  • Hour interview with panel and/or CEO

  • Reference checks (2 professional references)

  • Offer

  • Note that in some instances, we may opt to include a work trial before the offer is made.

Updated Apr 2 2026