PR & Communications Expert

In this hourly, remote contractor position, you will serve as a PR & Communications Subject Matter Expert (SME), responsible for reviewing AI-generated PR and communications content as well as creating expert-level communications materials. Your role involves evaluating the quality of reasoning, messaging discipline, and decision-making processes within AI outputs, while providing precise written feedback. You will assess these outputs for clarity, accuracy, tone, stakeholder alignment, and prompt adherence. Additionally, you will identify issues related to narrative coherence, positioning, media readiness, reputational risk, compliance, and crisis-response logic. Fact-checking statements and producing high-quality explanations and model deliverables—such as press releases, statements, FAQs, pitches, and communications plans—are key tasks. You will also rate and compare multiple AI-generated responses based on their effectiveness, correctness, and reasoning quality.

This opportunity is with SME Careers, a rapidly growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate. The company specializes in delivering training data for some of the world’s leading AI firms and foundation-model labs. Your expertise in PR and communications will directly contribute to enhancing the accuracy, messaging consistency, risk awareness, and clarity of public-facing AI-generated content.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop AI Training Content by creating detailed prompts and gold-standard PR and communications outputs, including press releases, statements, pitches, FAQs, and communications plans to guide AI learning.
- Optimize AI Performance through evaluating and ranking AI responses to improve message discipline, clarity, credibility, and alignment with stakeholder needs.
- Ensure Model Integrity by testing AI outputs for inaccuracies, reputational risks, bias, and unsafe claims. Validate the reliability of outputs across various scenarios such as product launches, incident responses, and policy changes.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in PR and/or communications, either agency or in-house, with a strong background in writing and media-facing deliverables.
- Demonstrated expertise in message development, including crafting narratives, proof points, objection handling, Q&A/FAQ frameworks, and tone control.
- Proven experience producing core communications assets such as press releases, media pitches, bylines, statements, talking points, internal communications, and executive notes.
- Ability to critically evaluate outputs for accuracy, defensibility, and risk factors including overclaims, legal and compliance sensitivity, forward-looking statements, and confidentiality concerns.
- Familiarity with crisis communications principles, including rapid response, stakeholder mapping, escalation paths, holding statements, and post-incident learnings.
- Strong editing and quality assurance skills, with the capability to provide specific, actionable feedback and write gold-standard rewrites supported by clear rationale.
- Proficiency in English at a minimum C1 level.
- Reliable, self-directed, and capable of consistently delivering high-quality work in a remote, hourly contractor setting across different time zones.

Preferred Qualifications and Additional Information

- Prior experience with AI data training or annotation, editorial quality assurance, newsroom or press office workflows, or communications review is highly desirable.
- While there is no immediate project available, qualified candidates will be among the first contacted for relevant future opportunities. This role provides access to a growing expert network and potential ongoing projects.

This position offers a unique chance to influence the development of leading AI models by ensuring their public communications are accurate, clear, and risk-aware.