The work you're doing that doesn't have a title yet
The unnamed AI role you might already be holding.
You might be the person at your company who became the AI person. Not officially. Nobody gave you a title. It happened gradually: you figured something out, showed someone else, got asked again, answered again, started being looped in on conversations about what the team should do with this.
You're doing a real job. The job just doesn't have a name yet.
This matters more than it sounds. Thirty or more new AI-adjacent job titles have already emerged in HR and IT — not theoretically, already. Prompt engineer. AI change lead. People Operations AI specialist. These didn't exist five years ago. Some are already on job boards with salary bands. The titling is happening in real time, and most of it is happening without the people already doing the work.
The pattern is one you might recognize: you build expertise, start fielding questions, become the informal resource, and then watch as a job description gets written for the thing you've been doing — without connecting it to you because you were never in a formal role.
The professional loss in this is quiet, not dramatic. The scope never got formally defined. The title never landed on your name. The contribution was diffuse: spread across meetings, hallway questions, quick Slack moments that never got logged anywhere.
You can change this without waiting for anyone to notice.
The first move: write down what you've been doing. Not in job-description language — plain English. What did you figure out, what did you teach someone else, what works now because you were paying attention? One paragraph, honest and specific.
The second move is naming it in market language. That's the gap between "I help my team use AI tools" and "I led informal AI adoption across three departments, cutting manual research time by roughly a third." The skills are identical. The framing is the difference between invisible contribution and visible expertise.
A Career Coach who knows both AI and your sector helps you name this before the job posting exists. The person who names it first has the inside track.
Open a doc right now. Write that paragraph: what did you figure out, what did you teach, what works now because you were paying attention? That paragraph is your evidence. Start there.
Everything that comes after — the language, the title, the positioning — starts with what you write today.
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