What does a Chief AI Officer do?

The title misleads more than it informs: in our own corpus of 79 recent AI leadership postings across Switzerland and Europe, none uses "Chief AI Officer" and 24 use Head of AI or equivalent. What stays constant is the job's content: 43% of postings already assign governance and compliance duties, a third hangs company-wide training on the role, and one in six asks the hire to build the AI team from scratch.

If you are deciding whether to hire this figure, what to demand in writing and what it must deliver in 90 days, the full plan with the market numbers is in the blueprint for hiring a Chief AI Officer. The lab's general framework, in AI systems.