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VP AI. The role, the market signal, and how to build it in your org.
Enterprise AI leadership at the VP/SVP level, typically running the AI platform, AI product, or AI-X function (AI Security, AI Strategy, AI Innovation).
In a workforce of people and AI agents, this role takes shape around the workflows it supports. Define its responsibilities and handoffs, then prepare people to perform that work.
49 postings · 49 distinct titles · from 264,613 real job postings · see the live data →
What the market calls it
VP, AIVP of AISVP AI
Hiring this role in our corpus right now
Citi 8Barclays 5Mufgub 5Synchronyfinancial 5Bmo 2
What the postings ask this role to do
1,151 tasks extracted from real VP AI job descriptions, classified Automate / Augment / Human-only. Only 1% can be fully automated: companies are hiring this role for the judgment, not the keystrokes.
Automate
- Document model development materials for mrm approvals and governance purposes.
Augment
- Manage and maintain policies and processes.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies.
- Escalate breaches of policies and procedures.
- Contribute to strategy and make recommendations for change.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment in support of the control and governance agenda.
Human-only
- Counsel employees on performance when managing a team.
- Define jobs and responsibilities when managing a team.
- Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.
- Use influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
- Contribute to employee pay decisions and changes when managing a team.
How we build it in your org
From the market's version of this role to your version of it
1. Define workflow responsibilities
Start with the workflows this role supports: the outcomes, decisions, and handoffs it owns. Task Intelligence examines the tasks within that work and how people and agents can share responsibility.2. Define your version
Your team composes the job description for your org's variant of the role, grounded in those responsibilities and the task evidence rather than a copied template.3. Practise and assess readiness
Build on the domain and technical expertise your people already bring. Use relevant Simulations, GenAI Sandboxes, and Skill Validation Assessments to practise changed responsibilities and demonstrate capability. Revisit preparation when the work changes.Start with the work, not the org chart.
Define what this role will own, then connect those responsibilities to practice and assessment.