What the work involves
You'll work through the deck types PMs live in: product strategy decks, roadmap presentations, product review documents, launch readiness reviews, executive check-ins, and OKR retrospectives. Tasks fall into three broad shapes — writing a gold-standard deck from a realistic brief, evaluating a model-generated deck against a rubric, or rewriting a weak model output and documenting what you changed and why. The written rationale is often worth more to the lab than the artifact itself; a deck that scores 3/5 with a precise explanation of the missing narrative spine is more useful than one scored 3/5 with no comment.
Expect to assess things a real reviewer would catch: whether the storyline survives without the speaker, whether the ask is stated before the supporting data, whether a metric slide actually supports the claim on its title bar, whether the appendix is doing work that belongs in the body. Slide craft matters too — hierarchy, alignment, chart choice, text density, and whether the deck reads as something you'd genuinely send to a VP.
What the platform screens for
Ethos runs an AI voice screen. It probes for concrete shipping history — which products, which surfaces, which audiences you presented to — and then follows up on specifics. Generic PM vocabulary ("drove alignment," "partnered cross-functionally") gets pressed hard. The screen also tests evaluation judgment: given a flawed deck, can you name the top failure and rank it above cosmetic issues? Expert-level PowerPoint or Google Slides fluency is treated as a real requirement, not a nice-to-have.
Logistics
- Fully remote, fully asynchronous; no standing meetings
- Flexible 5–20 hours per week, more available if you want it
- Observed rate around $80/hour; bands vary by task type and calibration performance and are not guaranteed
- Work is claimed from a queue, so consistent weekly availability tends to mean steadier access to tasks