Chief AI Officer Executive Search: The Elevator to the C-Suite
For most of its short history, the Chief AI Officer role was not a C-suite role at all. It was nested inside engineering, reporting to the CTO or CIO, focused on implementation rather than strategy. That is changing — but not uniformly. Where the CAIO reports tells you everything about how seriously a company is treating the AI transition. Two distinct profiles have emerged, and they are not interchangeable.
