The Chief AI Officer, VP of AI, and Head of AI seats are scattered across 116 sources and buried in noise. caio verifies each one and tells you what the posting won’t: who you’d report to, the real comp, the company’s AI maturity, and the red flags — so you know which seats are real before you waste a quarter interviewing.
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A hundred postings call themselves “AI leadership.” Maybe three are real. Here is what happens before one reaches you.
10 verified C-level AI roles, every Friday. No noise, no aggregator spam — just the mandates worth your time.
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A Chief AI Officer owns the full arc of enterprise AI — from strategy and governance to the teams and infrastructure that make it real. They sit in the C-suite, report directly to the CEO or board, and are accountable for turning AI investment into measurable business outcomes. It’s not a technical title. It’s an executive mandate.
Total compensation for a CAIO typically runs $300,000 to $700,000+ at large enterprises. Base sits between $200,000 and $450,000 — equity, bonuses, and benefits make up the rest. Finance and healthcare consistently pay a premium. Startup equity can shift the math dramatically. The broadest mandates command the highest numbers.
A CAIO owns AI strategy and governance exclusively — it’s the most focused mandate. A CTO with an AI focus leads all of technology, with AI as the primary lens. A CDO starts with data and digital transformation, and in many organizations this is the fastest path to owning the AI agenda. The right choice depends on where your leverage is greatest.
Because we built a two-stage filter specifically to answer that question. First, an AI classifier rejects anything that doesn’t have a genuine C-level AI mandate. Then a second AI layer enriches each approved listing — pulling reporting structure, company AI maturity, salary signals, and red flags. If a posting doesn’t pass both stages, it never reaches this page.
We scan 22 job boards (LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Wellfound, The Ladders, NoFluffJobs, Pracuj.pl) plus 94 company ATS feeds, every 6 hours — searching every meaningful variation of the title: Chief AI Officer, CAIO, Head of AI, VP Artificial Intelligence, Chief Data Officer, Director of AI/ML. You get everything. Filtered to only what matters.
Promote your role to the top of the board for 30 days, plus the next Friday wire. From $149, one-time.