{"id":13224,"date":"2025-08-08T09:39:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/uncategorized\/new-roles-in-the-market-from-chief-ai-officer-to-ai-founder\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:22:14","slug":"new-roles-in-the-market-from-chief-ai-officer-to-ai-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/ai-in-industries\/new-roles-in-the-market-from-chief-ai-officer-to-ai-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd12 New roles in the market \u2014 from Chief AI Officer to AI Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More and more large organizations \u2014 both global and local \u2014 are introducing new positions related to artificial intelligence. First, startups test them and what is proven is then adopted by corporations.<\/p><p>In the job market, new and lesser-known roles are emerging that may soon be of strategic importance. One of them is <strong>AI Ethics Specialist<\/strong> \u2014 a person responsible for ensuring that language models and predictive systems operate in accordance with principles of transparency, non-discrimination and the applicable law. Such positions are now offered not only by Google and Microsoft but also by financial institutions, universities and representatives of the public sector.<\/p><p><strong>AI Whisperer<\/strong>, on the other hand, is an informal yet rapidly growing role of an external advisor who helps CEOs and boards understand AI not from a technical perspective, but a strategic one. There are also emerging positions, such as <strong>AI Policy Analyst<\/strong>, which is a regulatory policy analyst who monitors changes in laws such as the European AI Act; <strong>Synthetic Data Engineer<\/strong>, a specialist in generating synthetic data for training models; and <strong>Generative AI Designer<\/strong>, who designs AI systems that support creative processes in product design and marketing.<\/p><p>New roles aren&#8217;t just a fancy. They signal that AI is becoming not only a tool but an organizational structure, a language of decision-making and a source of work culture. Since this is the case, we need to learn not only to understand artificial intelligence but also to collaborate with it.<\/p><h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>AI enters the management board \u2014 who&#8217;s the Chief AI Officer?<\/strong><\/h4><p>Unlike a CTO or CIO, who are responsible for infrastructure, the CAIO handles the comprehensive strategy for AI implementation at the technological, business and ethical levels. They need both engineering skills (language models, prompt engineering, data infrastructure) and managerial skills: understanding processes, communicating with management and assessing legal and reputational risks.<\/p><p>Startups were the first to understand that AI requires consistent leadership. Back in 2016, the American company Cybraics Inc., which specializes in detecting cyber threats, introduced the role of CAIO to integrate technology development with business identity.<\/p><p>Today, larger companies are following the path of startups. At Meta, the role of CAIO is held by Alex Wang, the founder of Scale AI, who is responsible for the superintelligence strategy. At WPP, Daniel J. Hulme, former CEO of the startup Satalia, handles AI strategy for hundreds of entities. In the British NatWest Group, Maja Panti\u0107, an expert in emotion recognition, conducts research on the ethical use of AI in finance.<\/p><h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prompt Engineer \u2014 the new heart of the creative process<\/strong><\/h4><p>For many users, interacting with a model is fun. In reality, prompt crafting becomes a key competency that requires design thinking, understanding the models and linguistic precision. This is how the profession of Prompt Engineer has been born.<\/p><p>It\u2019s not just a &#8220;chat message writer&#8221;, but a project partner who constructs prompt structures that maximize the model&#8217;s capabilities. They create structures not only for content but also for code, images and logic. They work with UX, R&amp;D, marketing and product teams.<\/p><p>The market demand is increasing \u2014 companies such as Anthropic, Klarna and Notion are offering salaries around 250,000 USD per year. They&#8217;re looking for individuals with experience in working with LLMs, iterative approaches, systems thinking and linguistic precision. Interestingly, humanistic skills like understanding intentions, culture and the logic of interfaces are becoming more important than programming.<\/p><h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>AI Operations Manager \u2014 The guardian of implementations<\/strong><\/h4><p>Alongside creative roles, there&#8217;s a more operational one \u2014 the AI Operations Manager, who ensures the accuracy and scalability of AI implementations in the organization and serves as a link between IT, product and management.<\/p><p>They handle selection of suppliers, integration of models with infrastructure, enforcement of security policies and compliance. They coordinate the work of multiple teams, such as Legal, DevOps and Product. Initially, this role was the domain of startups. Today, it also functions in corporations \u2014 from pharmaceuticals to e-commerce \u2014 as an essential element of efficient AI management.<\/p><p><strong>AI Product Owner<\/strong> is responsible for the entire lifecycle of an AI product: collaborating with engineers, testing and iterating with users. There are also new company founders \u2014 <strong>AI Founders<\/strong> \u2013 acting as a one-person band. They may not always be programmers, but they can build a product using pre-made models, APIs and no-code tools. They test prompts themselves, create MVPs and iterate with users. Their strength lies in speed, flexibility and the ability to integrate AI with market niches.<\/p><h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>AI Guild \u2014 How companies manage skills<\/strong><\/h4><p>AI is no longer just an IT domain \u2014 it&#8217;s becoming a horizontal competency. That&#8217;s why companies need structures to coordinate it. In response to this need, the concept of AI Guild was created \u2014 a community within organizations that shares knowledge, establishes standards and educates.<\/p><p><strong>AI Guild can take various forms:<\/strong><\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>knowledge exchange channels (Slack, Teams)<\/li>\n\n<li>thematic meetings and lightning talks<\/li>\n\n<li>task forces that test new tools<\/li>\n\n<li>centers of competence (AI Center of Excellence).<\/li><\/ul><p>Some companies formalize these structures by creating roles like AI Community Lead or programs of AI Champions, who are internal AI ambassadors. In the era of horizontal competencies, every company needs space to learn beyond departmental silos.<\/p><h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Resume in the AI era<\/strong><\/h4><p>Not long ago, &#8220;working in AI&#8221; meant having a PhD in machine learning. Today, that&#8217;s an anachronism. Generative models, no-code platforms and open APIs make AI more widely accessible. This is changing career paths and resumes themselves.<\/p><p>More and more positions, including non-technical ones, now require:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>knowledge of how models work and what their limitations are (LLM vs traditional models)<\/li>\n\n<li>skills in integrating AI into everyday work (Copilots, APIs, automations)<\/li>\n\n<li>knowledge of ethics, privacy, AI Act<\/li>\n\n<li>AI literacy \u2014 understanding technology and its learning pace.<\/li><\/ul><p>Importantly, many of these skills don&#8217;t require formal education \u2014 what counts is practice, a portfolio, experimenting. The most crucial skill becomes the ability to collaborate with AI. Because it isn&#8217;t artificial intelligence that will take our jobs. It&#8217;s our inability to cooperate with it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although not every company has a Chief AI Officer in its structure today and many IT managers view Prompt Engineers as a novelty from Silicon Valley, reality is changing faster than we can keep up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":13203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,888],"tags":[],"popular":[],"difficulty-level":[36],"ppma_author":[641],"class_list":["post-13224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-in-industries","category-business-2","difficulty-level-easy"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":641,"user_id":262,"is_guest":0,"slug":"olena-kolikhova","display_name":"Olena Kolikhova","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/364720624_10232630636568304_1490878367016636579_n.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/364720624_10232630636568304_1490878367016636579_n.jpg"},"first_name":"Olena","last_name":"Kolikhova","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":"Liderka w obszarze technologii i innowacji z ponad 10-letnim do\u015bwiadczeniem. Head of Expansion &amp; Partnerships w CampusAI, wcze\u015bniej zwi\u0105zana z EY i Microsoft. Wyr\u00f3\u017cniona w Strong Women in IT, mentoruje startupy. Absolwentka Tech MBA Hult, wyk\u0142adowczyni na Uniwersytecie \u0141azarskiego."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13478,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions\/13478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"popular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/popular?post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"difficulty-level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/difficulty-level?post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}