An AI lab is training a model on professional slide craft, and needs policy analysts who have actually built briefing decks for policymaker audiences. You'll write prompts, produce reference decks, and grade model-generated presentations across briefing, testimony, and report-launch formats, at an observed $70/hour.

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What the work involves

This is presentation-craft evaluation, not policy writing. Day to day you'll be handed model-generated slide decks — a policy briefing deck for a congressional staffer, a data exhibit summarizing survey findings, a testimony support packet, a report launch presentation for press and funders — and asked to judge whether they would survive contact with a real policymaker audience. Some tasks run the other direction: you write the prompt and produce the gold-standard deck yourself, so the model has something credible to learn from. Expect to explain, in writing, why a slide fails: a headline that states a topic instead of a finding, a chart that buries the comparison, an executive summary that hedges past the point of usefulness, a recommendations slide that doesn't map to any decision the audience can actually make.

What the platform screens for

Ethos runs an AI voice screen before any task work. It is looking for evidence you've done this at a research institution rather than adjacent to one — that you can name the deck types you've built, describe who sat in the room, and talk about the revision cycles that took a draft from analyst-quality to principal-ready. Expect follow-ups that push on specifics: how you compress a 60-page report into eight slides, how you handle a chart that contradicts the recommendation, what you do differently for a Hill briefing versus a donor presentation. Generic answers about "clear communication" collapse quickly under a second probe. A portfolio of published briefs and decks for policymaker audiences is checked, and genuine PowerPoint fluency — master slides, alignment discipline, chart construction — is assumed rather than aspirational.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous; tasks are claimed from a queue, no fixed hours or standing meetings
Flexible commitment between 5 and 20 hours per week, with more available to reviewers who perform well
$70/hour is the observed rate on this listing; pay bands on AI evaluation work shift with task type and project phase and are never guaranteed
Work is typically covered by NDA, so plan to discuss your own past work in terms of craft and process rather than confidential content

Policy Researcher / Think Tank Analyst

What the work involves

What the platform screens for

Logistics

Interview prep — 10 questions