Workforce planning shifts constantly as organisations respond to changes in skills availability, internal staffing pressures, and new forms of work. Leaders often find themselves examining gaps long after they begin to affect productivity. Teams can function for months with mismatched strengths, unclear expectations, or inconsistent performance signals. A more structured way of collecting and interpreting data can ease those pressures. Technology designed for assessment brings coherence to decisions and helps managers read their workforce with greater clarity.
AI automation engineer sounds like a vague title, so here's the job, plainly: I embed with a team (HR, in my case), spot opportunities to enhance the team's work, and build AI-powered workflows that jump on those opportunities. The goal is to create measurable improvements that free my teammates up for creativity, strategy, and connection. I think we'll be seeing this title pop up more and more as time goes on.
Entrepreneurs perhaps expect to lose sleep (and all sense of control over their inbox) when scaling their venture from a startup into a unicorn. However, one millennial founder was warned he'd have to also lose his entire leadership team in the process. When Alex Bouaziz launched the HR platform Deel in 2019, he was just 25 years old. Although he had already put his weight behind a couple of "nice but very small scale" startups, he insists that this was a "completely different beast".