Also called: AI Adoption Lead, AI Training Specialist (Workplace), AI Champion, AI Literacy Trainer
Teaches coworkers to use AI tools safely and well, building trainings, prompt guides and examples for each team.
You run a workshop showing the finance team how an AI assistant can summarize contracts, then answer questions about what data is safe to paste in. Later you update the company's prompt library and check which teams actually use the tools.
Estimate; BLS training and development specialists earn $69,280 median (May 2025), and AI-focused roles pay more.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in any field; experience in training, IT or the part of the business you support matters most.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Instructional Design, Business Administration, Information Technology, Educational Technology.
Growing much faster than average (about 11% over 10 years). BLS projects +11% for training and development specialists, 2025-35; AI adoption roles are new and growing.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI tutors and built-in help teach the basics; persuading teams to change how they work, and setting safe rules, stay human.
Classes: Speech or debate, Computer applications, Psychology.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-1151.
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