We're Hiring AI Talent Nobody Knows How to Evaluate

We’re Hiring AI Talent Nobody Knows How to Evaluate, for Roles Nobody Defined, to Solve Problems Nobody Quantified And we’re calling it “strategy.” Here’s a question nobody in the leadership wants to answer out loud: If AI itself is barely out of diapers, how exactly do you — the hiring manager — know you’re hiring the right person? Doesn’t matter if it’s a staff ML engineer or your first SVP of AI. The problem is identical. You’re evaluating a skillset that has no established benchmark, for a discipline that hasn’t completed a single full enterprise implementation cycle, against outcomes nobody has quantified. ...

September 9, 2026 · 5 min · Druhin Dhavala