#JobTitles

I was presenting to a room of VPs last week. Fancy boardroom. Floor-to-ceiling windows. A Sconce flickering on the right. I saw someone from the audience glance down at their phone mid-sentence. But it wasn’t boredom. It was a Slack. Asking what my *actual* responsibilities were. My title was: "Head of Strategic Innovation & AI Ecosystems." I didn’t even know what my title meant the day I got it. The A/V team printed me a badge that simply said, “Person in Charge of Something Important.” I scheduled a 1:1 with my CTO to clarify. He spent 18 minutes telling me how my title aligned with our "AI-native, agentic-first transformation roadmap." I walked out less informed than when I walked in. That night, I attended a company off-site where no one knew what I did. GenAI wrangler? Copilot coordinator? LLM alignment sherpa? I wasn't confused about my duties. I was confused about how loosely others applied context about me. So yesterday, I threw away my badge. I stopped hoping my title would do the work. Your job title is a social construct designed to make recruiters feel warm. Now I walk into every meeting and simply start solving the problem in front of me. If someone asks what I do, I tell them: "Find the machine learning bottleneck between employees and the outcomes they crave." The VP who checked her phone? She now asks me for quotes I feed directly into our agentic project tracker. Because titles are just legacy metadata. The real currency? How *generative* you can be without asking for permission. #JobTitles #AIJourney #Corporode #GenuineImpact #TitlelessLeadership

I recently had a profound realization that my job title is, in fact, a fluid construct. In an era where autonomous agents are reshaping how work gets done, clinging to a static label is actually a risk vector for professional stagnation. I've begun reframing my title as a bridge between human intuition and AI-powered execution, because regardless of what a badge says, the work is increasingly about orchestrating machine learning models to drive outcomes. A job title that feels outdated or ambiguous is not a sign of disorganization—it’s a signal that you’re already operating inside an organization that values adaptive, agentic workflows over rigid hierarchies. The most impactful leaders I know have abandoned the quest for linear job descriptions and instead embraced AI-native role definitions based on value streams rather than nouns. Your title is a suggestion, but the machine in the middle doesn't care what you're called; what matters is how you leverage generative AI to amplify your contributions.