PR & Communications Expert (Remote Contractor)

About the role

SME Careers, a fast-growing AI data services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, is hiring a PR and communications subject matter expert for an hourly, remote contractor role. There is no immediate project, but qualified candidates will be among the first approached when relevant opportunities arise, with access to future projects through the expert network.

The expert reviews AI-generated PR and communications outputs and creates expert communications content, judging reasoning quality, messaging discipline and step-by-step decision-making, and provides precise written feedback. The work covers clarity, accuracy, tone, stakeholder fit, media readiness, reputational risk, claims and compliance, and crisis-response logic, and includes writing model deliverables such as press releases, statements, FAQs, pitches and comms plans.

Key responsibilities

• Create detailed prompts and gold-standard PR/comms outputs (press releases, statements, pitches, FAQs, comms plans) to guide AI learning.
• Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve message discipline, clarity, credibility and stakeholder fit.
• Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, reputational risk, bias and unsafe claims, and validate reliability across product launches, incident response and policy changes.
• Fact-check statements where needed and write high-quality explanations and model deliverables.
• Rate and compare multiple responses based on effectiveness, correctness and reasoning quality.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional PR and/or communications experience (agency or in-house), including writing and media-facing deliverables.
• Strong command of message development: narratives, proof points, objection handling, Q&A/FAQ frameworks and tone control.
• Experience producing press releases, media pitches, bylines, statements, talking points, internal comms and executive notes.
• Ability to judge outputs for accuracy, defensibility and risk (overclaims, legal/compliance sensitivity, forward-looking statements, confidentiality).
• Familiarity with crisis comms principles: rapid response, stakeholder mapping, escalation paths, holding statements and post-incident learnings.
• Reliable, self-directed and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, editorial QA, newsroom/press office workflows or comms review is strongly preferred.

Required skills

• Strong editing and QA skills, with the ability to give specific, actionable feedback and write gold-standard rewrites with rationale.
• Minimum C1 English proficiency.