27 of 41 enterprise AI roles don't say who they report to. Unstated in 20 of 33 listings and 7 of 8 appointments.
The starting board: 33 listings and 8 announced appointments for roles that own enterprise AI, across 39 companies. Most do not name the role's boss.
Job postings and announcements are not written to disclose org charts, so read this as what companies chose to publish, not how the roles are structured.
Our readThe read
The AI owner's mandate is mostly unwritten in public. 27 of 41 records here don't name a reporting line, and 2 of 41 say where the AI budget sits. Where the mandate is written, the roles split in two. Some get levers: Citi's newly created head of AI for COO Technology is given a “~$200M” portfolio budget and a year-one target to “Deliver 3+ production-grade agentic AI systems”. Others get authority: Trinity Health's newly created chief AI officer reports to the CEO, has no direct reports, and day-to-day budgeting stays with TIS, operations and finance. A reporting line tells you who listens. Levers tell you what ships. If you're hiring for this seat, write the budget line into the posting. If you're applying, ask about it first.
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This is the starting board, not a week. It holds every record at a Global 2000 company that we could source publicly as of 19 Sep 2026: 33 listings open at capture and 8 appointments. 27 of the listings carry a posted date, from 5 May to 17 Sep 2026; the other 6 source pages print no date. The appointments were announced from 6 Aug to 7 Sep 2026. Records from the first sweep at companies outside current coverage are not in this issue. From next issue on, the sections carry only what changed in the seven days.
Number of the week
records state where the AI budget sits. Citi's COO Technology listing gives the role the “AI technology portfolio budget (~$200M)”; Trinity Health's keeps day-to-day budgeting with TIS, operations and finance.
Base: all 41 records (33 listings, 8 appointments). “States” means the source text assigns the AI budget to the role or to someone else; a scripted check of every saved source text finds no other assignment.
Patterns
Counts from fixed rules over stated text (scripts/lib/editorial-rules.mjs, scripts/lib/buckets.mjs).
- Titles11 of 33 listings name a build or delivery function, 8 name governance, responsible AI or risk, 8 name adoption or transformation, and 6 carry a general AI leadership title.
- Reporting linesof the 14 records that name one, 6 run to another AI leader (a Chief AI or Chief Data & AI Officer, or the head of an AI function), 5 to a technology executive and 1 to the CEO.
- First of its kind6 of 8 appointment sources call the role newly created or the company's first; 2 of 33 listings say so.
Our readBuild titles outnumber governance titles 11 to 8, yet only 1 listing states that the role owns a budget. A build title without a budget is a request, not a mandate.
One chart
Who does the AI owner report to?
27 of 41 records do not say. Of the 14 that do, 5 name a technology executive; 4 name the head or director of an AI function; 2 name a Chief AI or Chief Data & AI Officer; one each names the CEO, the Chief Risk Officer and an operations or customer-service manager.
n = 41 records (33 listings, 8 appointments) · base: every record from the first sweep, captured 19 Sep 2026, at a Global 2000 company; listings posted 5 May to 17 Sep 2026 (6 undated); appointments announced 6 Aug to 7 Sep 2026 · not stated: listings 20 of 33 (61%), appointments 7 of 8 (88%) · caveat: a sourcing sweep, not a market sample; “stated” means the source text names a reporting line, and buckets are assigned by fixed rules from that verbatim text only · source: enterpriseaijobs.com/board
Read the mandate
Vice President, Chief AI & Digital Transformation Officer
“Reporting directly to the CEO and based in Livonia, Michigan, this executive will lead Trinity Health's AI vision, strategy, and transformation agenda to drive meaningful impact across care delivery, operations, workforce productivity, and the colleague experience.”
The reporting line is the chief executive. The role is “a single incumbent role and has no direct reports.” It is to “Chair the AI oversight committee” and to “Define decision rights across enterprise, regional, and local levels.” On money, it is explicit: the role will “Advise on AI investment strategy and business-case development, while day-to-day budgeting and resource allocation remain with TIS, operations, and finance partners.” The system describes itself as a family of “133,000 colleagues” across “23 states”.
Whether the AI portfolio it prioritizes has a number attached. Whether the oversight committee it chairs can stop a regional deployment, or only review it. How the role relates to the Chief Data & Analytics Officer beyond “In partnership with”.
This is the CEO-reporting CAIO shape with the budget explicitly kept elsewhere: authority over vision, standards and decision rights, no team and no budget ownership. Of the 41 records in this issue, this is the only one that states a CEO reporting line, and the only one that states the budget sits outside the role. Whether that combination is a design choice or a compromise is the question to ask the next health system that posts a similar role. (Observed: everything quoted above, and the two counts. Inferred: the reading in this paragraph.)
| Phrase in the posting | What it means Opinion |
|---|---|
Reports directly to Trinity Health Chief Executive Officer | Access: the AI agenda reaches the CEO unfiltered. Access is not control. |
This is a single incumbent role and has no direct reports | Every deliverable runs through someone else's team. Influence is the job. |
day-to-day budgeting and resource allocation remain with TIS, operations, and finance partners | The role makes the case for spend; others approve it. |
Chair the AI oversight committee | The one formal lever. Whether the committee can stop a deployment is unstated, so ask. |
Moves
8 appointments. 5 are named because the company published the announcement in its own newsroom. 3 are role-level because the only public source we found is trade press, and we name a person only when the company or the person published the announcement.
- Saint-GobainAnnounced 7 Sep 2026Company newsroom
Annica Hagen
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO) and member of the Group Executive Committee
Reports toNot stated
Newly created (stated):
this newly created role
Our readThe seat is in the title: Chief AI Officer and member of the Group Executive Committee, in a role the company calls newly created. No reporting line is stated; at that table, the seat says more.
Announcement ↗ - PhilipsAnnounced 6 Sep 2026Trade press
Role-level
Reports toNot stated
Newly created (stated):
a newly created chief AI officer role
Role-level: the only public source is trade press. We name a person only when the company or the person published the announcement.
Announcement ↗ - Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLPAnnounced 1 Sep 2026Company newsroom
Kelly Graves
Chief AI Strategy and Innovation Officer
Reports toNot stated
Newly created (stated):
its first Chief AI Strategy and Innovation Officer
From the source:
promoted her to partner
Our readNamed the firm's first holder and made a partner in the same announcement. At a law firm, partnership is the lever; compare Simpson Thacher's AI governance listing, which reports to the Chief Risk Officer.
Announcement ↗ - REA GroupAnnounced 31 Aug 2026Trade press
Role-level
Reports to
chief technology officer
Newly created (stated):
its first chief AI officer
Name trimmed for display: the trade-press source also names the CTO.
Role-level: the only public source is trade press. We name a person only when the company or the person published the announcement.
Announcement ↗ - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB)Announced 21 Aug 2026Company newsroom
Pedro Uria-Recio
Reports toNot stated
Announcement ↗ - ScotiabankAnnounced 19 Aug 2026Trade press
Role-level
Executive Vice President and Chief Data and AI Officer
Reports toNot stated
Newly created (stated):
a newly created role
Role-level: the only public source is trade press. We name a person only when the company or the person published the announcement.
Announcement ↗ - Target CorporationAnnounced 11 Aug 2026Company newsroom
Chandhu Nair
Reports toNot stated
Newly created (stated):
our first chief AI officer
Title normalized for display. Target's release reads “senior vice president and our first chief AI officer”.
Our readTarget's own release calls this its first chief AI officer, at SVP grade, and doesn't state the reporting line. For a first-of-its-kind seat, that's the line we'd want stated.
Announcement ↗ - New York Life Insurance CompanyAnnounced 6 Aug 2026Company newsroom
Zhen Zhao
Reports toNot stated
Announcement ↗
New roles
33 listings at 31 companies. Title, stated reporting line, scope and pay. 22 of 33 state a pay range. Each links to the board record and to the source.
- 7-Eleven, Inc.Retail & consumerSenior Director, Enterprise AISource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- FoundeverProfessional servicesDirector, Enterprise AI EnablementSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- HerbalifeRetail & consumerDirector, Enterprise AI & Platform EngineeringSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
Listing closed since capture (checked 2 Oct 2026)
- News Corp AustraliaMediaDirector Enterprise AI and Data PlatformsSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- Siemens EnergyEnergy & utilitiesHead of Data and AI SolutionsSource ↗
Reports to
Head of AI & Enterprise Solutions
Listing closed since capture (checked 2 Oct 2026)
- Ulta BeautyRetail & consumerDirector, AI Strategy, Adoption, and Workforce TransformationSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- The Baldwin GroupInsuranceSenior Director, AI & Architecture (Insurance Industry Experience Required)Source ↗
Reports to
reporting to the CTO-Retail
Listing closed since capture (checked 2 Oct 2026)
- AmgenPharma & life sciencesAssociate Vice President, AI&D Scaled Operations and TransformationSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
Listing closed since capture (checked 2 Oct 2026)
- Saxo BankBanking & lendingSource ↗
- T. Rowe PriceWealth & asset managementDirector, AI Enablement & EcosystemSource ↗
Reports to
Head of Global Distribution AI Strategy & Transformation
- T. Rowe PriceWealth & asset managementDirector, Applied AISource ↗
Reports to
Head of Global Distribution AI Strategy & Transformation
From the source:
manage two permanent, multidisciplinary Implementation Pods
Our readAI owned by a business line, not by IT: both T. Rowe Price listings report to Global Distribution's AI head, and this one runs two standing implementation pods. Distribution is building its own AI bench.
- The HartfordInsuranceDirector of Responsible AISource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- BMO Financial GroupBanking & lendingHead, Responsible AI & GovernanceSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
Listing closed since capture (checked 2 Oct 2026)
- Five9TechnologySenior Director, Enterprise AISource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- Vertex PharmaceuticalsPharma & life sciencesDirector, AI Governance & PolicySource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- Johnson & Johnson (DePuy Synthes)HealthcareSr. Director, Data Science & AI, OrthopedicsSource ↗
Reports to
Chief Data and AI officer
From the source:
Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business
·shape and lead the enterprise Data Science and AI organization
Our readAn enterprise AI organization for a business J&J plans to separate. The first question for a candidate is which enterprise this role serves after the split.
- GE Vernova (Wind Engineering)Energy & utilitiesGovernance & Responsible AI LeaderSource ↗
Reports to
Reporting to the Director – AI Strategy & Transformation
- U.S. BankBanking & lendingSource ↗
- Trinity HealthHealthcareVice President, Chief AI & Digital Transformation OfficerSource ↗
Title as written in the posting body; the posting's headline reads “Chief AI and Digital Transformation Officer - Trinity Health”.
Reports to
Reports directly to Trinity Health Chief Executive Officer
Newly created (stated):
a newly created enterprise leadership role
From the source:
has no direct reports
·day-to-day budgeting and resource allocation remain with TIS, operations, and finance partners
Our readA C-suite title on a VP grade, with a CEO line and no levers: no direct reports, and day-to-day budgeting stays with TIS, operations and finance. Influence is the whole job.
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPProfessional servicesDirector, AI Governance & RiskSource ↗
Reports to
This role will report to the Chief Risk Officer
From the source:
JD required
Our readA lawyer's job in a risk line: JD required, and it reports to the Chief Risk Officer. At this firm, AI governance sits with the control functions, at a stated $325,000–$375,000 base.
- LPL FinancialWealth & asset managementVice President, AI Risk and GovernanceSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
Listing closed since capture (checked 2 Oct 2026)
- SoFiBanking & lendingSenior Director, AI Enterprise TransformationSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- Siemens HealthineersHealthcareHead of AI Operationalization & TransformationSource ↗
Reports to
The Head of AI Operationalization & Transformation reports to the Senior Manager, Customer Service Operational Excellence in North America.
Listing closed since capture (checked 2 Oct 2026)
- RegeneronPharma & life sciencesExecutive Director, Responsible AI & Enterprise GovernanceSource ↗
Reports to
This role reports to the SVP, Chief AI Officer
From the source:
Build and lead a team of specialists
Our readGovernance inside the AI organization, not beside it: the line runs to the SVP, Chief AI Officer, and the posting gives the role a team to build. Compare Simpson Thacher, where AI governance reports to risk.
- State StreetWealth & asset managementGlobal Head of AI, MDSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- ParexelPharma & life sciencesDirector, AI Translation & Adoption - Data & TechnologySource ↗
Reports toNot stated
Listing closed since capture (checked 2 Oct 2026)
- CitiBanking & lendingHead of AI Solutions, COO Technology - MD (C16)Source ↗
Reports to
Head of COO Technology
Newly created (stated):
a newly created, executive-level position
From the source:
Own and manage the AI technology portfolio budget (~$200M)
·Deliver 3+ production-grade agentic AI systems
Our readThe mirror image of Trinity: further from the CEO, but with a ~$200M budget and a year-one production target. Judge this seat by those levers, not by its distance from the top.
- Everest (Everest Global Services, Inc.)InsuranceGroup Head of AISource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- MastercardTechnologyVice President, Product - AI Center of ExcellenceSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- LabcorpHealthcareVP, AI Center of Excellence (CoE), Enterprise SystemsSource ↗
Reports to
Reporting to the SVP, Enterprise Systems
Listing closed since capture (checked 2 Oct 2026)
- Guardian LifeInsuranceHead of AI GovernanceSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- CitiBanking & lendingHead of AI-First Development (Firmwide AI) - Managing DirectorSource ↗
Reports toNot stated
- ZayoTelecomHead of AI - Platform AISource ↗
Reports to
Reporting to the VP, Architecture, Cloud & AI
From the source:
Build and lead a high-performing team of AI researchers and engineers
·Estimated base salary range
Our readAI as infrastructure, not strategy: the line runs to the VP of Architecture, Cloud & AI, and the posting asks for a team of researchers and engineers. A builder's seat, at a stated $215,000–$245,000 base.
What we're watching
Questions the next records could answer. Not predictions.
- Will the next health-system AI chief posting give the role the budget, or keep it with IT, operations and finance as Trinity Health's does?
- 11 of the 33 listings are no longer posted. When those seats are filled, will the companies announce who got them, and name a reporting line? 7 of 8 announcements in this issue didn't.
- Will another posting put a number on the AI budget, as Citi's does with “~$200M”?
Corrections and weakest records
No corrections yet: this is the first issue.
11 of 33 listings captured 19 Sep were no longer live on 2 Oct.
Role-level moves resting on trade press only (3)
- Philips, Chief AI Officer · Trade press: massdevice.com
- REA Group, chief AI officer · Trade press: itnews.com.au
- Scotiabank, Executive Vice President and Chief Data and AI Officer · Trade press: fintech.ca
Listings closed since capture, checked 2 Oct 2026 (11)
Records stay on the board with their saved capture; the source link may not load.
- Herbalife, Director, Enterprise AI & Platform Engineering · HTTP 410 · captured 19 Sep 2026
- Siemens Energy, Head of Data and AI Solutions · HTTP 404 · captured 19 Sep 2026
- The Baldwin Group, Senior Director, AI & Architecture (Insurance Industry Experience Required) · Workday job JSON returns “permission denied” (HTTP 403) · captured 19 Sep 2026
- Amgen, Associate Vice President, AI&D Scaled Operations and Transformation · Workday job JSON returns “permission denied” (HTTP 403) · captured 19 Sep 2026
- Saxo Bank, Global Head of AI Platforms · Workday job JSON returns “permission denied” (HTTP 403) · captured 19 Sep 2026
- BMO Financial Group, Head, Responsible AI & Governance · Workday job JSON returns “permission denied” (HTTP 403) · captured 19 Sep 2026
- U.S. Bank, Head of AI Delivery · Workday job JSON returns “permission denied” (HTTP 403) · captured 19 Sep 2026
- LPL Financial, Vice President, AI Risk and Governance · Workday job JSON returns “permission denied” (HTTP 403) · captured 19 Sep 2026
- Siemens Healthineers, Head of AI Operationalization & Transformation · Workday job JSON returns “permission denied” (HTTP 403) · captured 19 Sep 2026
- Parexel, Director, AI Translation & Adoption - Data & Technology · Workday job JSON returns “permission denied” (HTTP 403) · captured 19 Sep 2026
- Labcorp, VP, AI Center of Excellence (CoE), Enterprise Systems · Workday job JSON returns “permission denied” (HTTP 403) · captured 19 Sep 2026
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