When one AI role is expected to discover the strategy, build the product, govern the risk and transform the organisation, the job description is telling the truth: the business has not made the decisions yet.
One role, five unresolved questions
A broad mandate often bundles strategy, product, data, adoption and governance into one hire. That is not simply ambition; it is evidence that ownership and sequence remain unclear.
Direction before the hire
Decide which business outcome matters, what must be proven and who owns the resulting change. Only then can the organisation know what capability it actually needs.
Hire for the next move
The right role is defined by the next decision and the next body of evidence — not by every possible future AI requirement.
Direction turns AI possibility into a decision the organisation can act on.