Staff Writer

The Center for Industrial Progress (CIP) is seeking high-impact writers to help us create the persuasive, pro-freedom messaging and policies that we believe are necessary to unleash American energy.

About the company

The Center for Industrial Progress (CIP) is a for-profit think tank dedicated to unleashing energy freedom—where all sources of energy compete to deliver the most reliable, lowest-cost power for billions of people.

We are doing this by creating messaging and policies that are 1) comprehensive (covering every imaginable issue), 2) convenient (broken up into tweet-length points), 3) compelling (they work on a general audience), and 4) customized (for major political offices we offer free, on-demand policy and messaging help).

Today our content is used by over 200+ major federal offices and dozens of top federal agency officials. Read some of our public content here. To get a sense of the scale of our impact, see here, here, and here.

The founder and lead content creator of CIP is Alex Epstein, the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and Fossil Future. To learn more about Alex, check out his X and personal website.

About the role

Content creation at CIP is a collaboration between writers/communicators and technical experts. Writers draw on the knowledge and insight of experts to gain clarity, then produce policy and messaging content that is consumer-friendly (easy for the reader to understand) and impact-oriented (designed to advance specific energy freedom goals).

As a writer, your responsibilities will include:

• Translating the technical expertise of our research team into behind-the-scenes policy and messaging content
• Creating compelling public-facing content to improve the organization’s public positioning and influence
• Proofreading, copy editing, and publishing content on various platforms
• Interfacing with our Executive Network community to keep them up to date and excited about our progress
• Potential: Creating compelling visual materials (e.g., images, video, graphics) in service of our text content

Note: We are a highly dedicated and hard-working team, and we expect the same from anyone who joins us. You should be prepared—and excited—to work beyond a typical 9-5 schedule, including many weekends and evenings.

You will report to Michelle Hung, CIP's Chief of Staff.

Warning: We are an unusual company with an unusual mission, and as such, we are looking for an unusual kind of person. If you fit these criteria, we would love to hear from you.

About you:

• Skilled at high-impact writing. The CIP content team is highly outcome-oriented—we only take on projects once we have a clear strategy for how the product will move a specific audience to take specific actions that will advance energy freedom. As part of the team, you must be skilled not just at writing, but at writing to persuade a target audience to take positive action. This requires understanding the audience’s context and knowing what will motivate and engage them. It also requires being genuinely motivated by producing outcomes in the world, not merely attempting to do so.

• Highly aligned with energy freedom. You should be deeply committed to the ideal of energy freedom—and, more broadly, free-market capitalism. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of a team that is making a massive, principled impact on energy policy that (to our knowledge) no other organization comes close to. Bonus points if you have studied the works of Ayn Rand.

• Obsessed with learning and growth. The CIP team holds exceptionally high standards for clarity and persuasiveness, and our standards are constantly rising. And we are constantly discovering new ways to leverage technology—most of all AI—for creating content better and faster. To excel in this role, you need to thrive on constructive feedback and be self-motivated to grow as a writer, thinker, and salesman of ideas.
  

Note: You do not need to have pre-existing expertise in energy, but it's a bonus.

• Salary range: 80-150K range depending on abilities and experience.
• Health and dental insurance.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Option to work at our office in Laguna Beach, CA, our office in Washington, D.C., or hybrid/remote.