Jobs at Cato Institute

The Email Marketing Manager will develop and manage email campaigns, collaborate with creative teams, and analyze performance to increase audience engagement. Responsibilities include managing multi-stage campaigns, creating landing pages, conducting testing plans, and leveraging audience data for strategy optimization.

The Marketing Coordinator will support integrated marketing campaigns, manage advertising operations, coordinate event logistics, and maintain marketing content, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive audience engagement and performance tracking.

The Media Relations Manager is responsible for strategic media engagement, relationship building with journalists, and executing proactive outreach strategies for the Cato Institute.

Manage Print Center operations, oversee inventory and supply management, maintain equipment, and ensure timely print job fulfillment for internal stakeholders.

Build and maintain agent skills and AI-integrated tooling across a React/Next.js content platform and a Python research platform. Integrate LLMs and retrieval systems, develop APIs and streaming pipelines, extend shared infrastructure, and improve testing and CI workflows. Collaborate on production readiness, migrations, and test coverage while working in an AI-empowered development loop.

The Senior Director of Enterprise IT will lead IT operations, manage a team, oversee Microsoft/cloud services, and enhance enterprise productivity.

The Research Associate will support the Budget and Entitlement Policy team by producing research summaries, analyzing fiscal data, and assisting with administrative tasks to promote Cato's mission.

Lead all HR functions for ~210 staff, including recruitment, benefits, compliance, compensation, performance management, HR policy, and organizational development. Manage a small HR team, partner with senior leadership on strategy and culture, and steward HR systems (Paylocity) and technology adoption, including ethical AI tools. On-site in Washington, DC at least two days per week.

Support and coordinate the Technology Policy team by implementing strategic plans, liaising across communications, events, development, and government affairs, staffing and preparing experts for events, handling administrative tasks, drafting program reports, and improving systems and workflows to expand the program's reach.

The Marketing Manager will lead initiatives to grow Cato's education programs through strategy development, campaign execution, and audience engagement while measuring success through analytics.

The Senior Research Engineer, Applied AI at Cato Institute leads AI-enhanced research initiatives, collaborates on tool development, and ensures quality in research outputs.

The Associate Editor will develop story ideas, manage editorial processes, collaborate on design and promotion, and contribute to the magazine's growth strategy.