Personal Assistant - Short Term Writing Project

Location: Remote
Type of contract: Freelance
Hourly Rate: $20/h

About Prolific

Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are building the biggest pool of quality human data in the world. Over 35,000 AI developers, researchers, and organizations use Prolific to gather data from paid study participants with a wide variety of experiences, knowledge, and skills.

About the role

We're looking for experienced US-based personal or executive assistants who also have a real appetite for writing. Maybe you kept a blog on the side, wrote for your university paper, have a half-finished novel in a drawer, or simply find yourself explaining things in painstaking detail because you can't help it. If putting things into words is something you enjoy rather than endure, we'd love to hear from you.

The task: take one long-term process that's central to your work as a personal assistant—such as managing a principal's calendar and travel through a genuinely chaotic week, planning a major event or offsite from a blank page to execution, or coordinating an end-to-end move or relocation—and write it up as a detailed, honest account of exactly how it's done. Not a checklist, but a proper narrative with judgment calls and instincts included.

Once you sign up, you'll complete a short, paid writing assessment (compensated at $9/h). Joining our talent pool for this project also opens the door to similar paid projects in the future. Everything is fully remote and ad hoc, on a freelance basis, with full control over which projects you accept. Payments are made via PayPal.

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years of professional experience as a personal assistant, executive assistant, or similar role.
• A real interest in writing. Any background works here: academic writing, blogging, journaling, freelance work, or simply being the person who writes the most thoughtful emails on the team. You don't need to be published, just someone who enjoys the craft.
• A preference for depth over brevity. You'd rather explain something properly than gloss over it.

Responsibilities

• Pick one task: Choose a single long-term task that's a genuine, recurring, critical part of your work as a personal assistant.
• Write it thoroughly, in your own voice, from start to finish. Depending on complexity, outlines typically run 5 to 25 pages.
• Stick to one task per outline. This is about real depth on a single process, not a tour of your whole role.
• Include the steps, the tools and information you draw on, the decision points, and the edge cases. The kind of detail that makes something worth reading and useful for an AI model trying to learn from it.

Why Prolific?

Joining our platform as a Prolific participant will give you the chance to influence the AI models of the future with your professional expertise. Once you pass our assessment, you can join Prolific in just 15 minutes and start enjoying competitive pay rates, flexible hours, and the ability to work from home.

We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems. We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development.