Website Developer & Editor

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is contracting a part-time Website Developer & Editor to lead the development and maintenance of the FLI website and a few other FLI-owned websites. This person will report directly to Taylor Jones, FLI’s Design and Web Manager. Do you want to work with one of the leading non-profit voices on AI today to build and maintain web resources used by millions of professionals? FLI works to reduce global catastrophic risks from transformative technologies and develop optimistic yet realistic visions of the future.

As Website Developer & Editor, you will:

• Maintain the FLI website, plus a few other campaign-specific websites.
• Prioritise, plan, and implement new features based on team and user feedback.
• Prepare and publish content using the Wordpress CMS (blog posts, profiles, pages).

Required Qualifications:

• Experience building and managing Wordpress websites (with extra credit for candidates who have experience with our particular stack of plugins: Oxygen Builder, Metabox, WS Form, Wordfence).
• Familiarity with CSS frameworks like TailwindCSS (our site uses AutomaticCSS).
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP.
• An understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment.
• Some web design skills, and an ability to design and build webpages from scratch with only a simple brief, without detailed wireframes.
• Some degree of familiarity with Figma or similar visual prototyping tools.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excited by the prospect of joining a small but influential team looking to improve humanity’s future.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using a ticket-management system like Jira, Notion, Github.
• Experience operating user feedback tools such as Ahrefs, HotJar, SEMrush.
• Experience producing reports using Google Analytics.
• Experience with back-end development (NGINX, MySQL).
• Experience with Photoshop or other photo editors.