The seven new job titles that AI created, from Claude Evangelist to Chief AI Officer - TNW
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The seven new job titles that AI created, from Claude Evangelist to Chief AI Officer - TNW
AI is creating entirely new job titles — Chief AI Officer, Claude Evangelist, Forward Deployed Engineer.
And if you're like most business owners I talk to, that list just made you feel further behind
AI is creating entirely new job titles — Chief AI Officer, Claude Evangelist, Forward Deployed Engineer.
And if you're like most business owners I talk to, that list just made you feel further behind.
Here's the truth: you don't need any of those roles. You need one thing to work first.
That "$200/month tool nobody uses" story? I hear it constantly. It's not because you chose badly. It's because you were sold a solution before anyone understood your actual problem.
The insight buried in all these new AI job titles is this — the ones succeeding aren't buying tools. They're matching specific problems to specific solutions. That's it.
A "Forward Deployed Engineer" isn't fancy. It's someone who sits inside your business and figures out which repetitive task AI can own in 30 days. No ripping out systems. No retraining teams. Just one process, one tool, one measurable result.
Start there. Pick your most predictable, repetitive business task — the one your team does the same way every time. That's your first AI candidate. One win changes everything.
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Popularised by Palantir in the 2010s, the job embeds a specialised engineer directly with a customer to deliver tailored AI solutions rather than off- ...
