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Director AI. The role, the market signal, and how to build it in your org.
Operational AI ownership, often the role accountable for shipping AI features and AI-touching products in a specific business unit.
45 postings · 44 distinct titles · from 260,470 real job postings · see the live data →
What the market calls it
Director, AIDirector of AISr Director AI
Hiring this role in our corpus right now
Mastercard 6Capitalone 3Guidehouse 3Visa 3Cisco 2
What the postings ask this role to do
945 tasks extracted from real Director AI job descriptions, classified Automate / Augment / Human-only. Only 1.3% can be fully automated: companies are hiring this role for the judgment, not the keystrokes.
Automate
- Monitor platform performance.
- Measure speed to production readiness.
- Develop templates for ai delivery at scale.
- Monitor ai platform security slos and slis.
- Report on ai platform security slos and slis.
Augment
- Ensure platform scalability and reliability.
- Ensure timely and successful implementation of ai initiatives.
- Manage project budgets, resource allocation, and delivery timelines.
- Delegate tasks, manage project timelines, and monitor team performance.
- Guide ai development, model building, training, and implementation processes.
Human-only
- Guide technical teams.
- Foster a culture of innovation.
- Retain top talent in the ai industry.
- Attract top talent in the ai industry.
- Develop specialized ai talent within the organization.
How we build it in your org
From the market's version of this role to your version of it
1. Audit the work
Start Your Audit maps the tasks this role would own in your operation and classifies each one: what AI runs, what your people run with AI, what stays human.2. Define your version
Your team composes the job description for your org's variant of the role, grounded in the audited tasks rather than a copied template.3. Make people ready
A learning plan built from that job description, delivered in GenAI Sandboxes with Simulations and Competency Assessments. Readiness is demonstrated, not assumed.Build your own
Compose your org's Director AI job description
Start from the tasks real postings ask for, keep the ones that match your operation, add what is specific to you. The tasks carry their AI classification, so the JD you take away already says what AI runs and what stays with people.
Start with the work, not the org chart.
Run the audit on one operation and see what this role would own first.