AI leadership openings this week
Every Head of, Director, VP and C-level role opened at AI companies in the last 7 days, the day it posted. Each is a team being built or a seat being backfilled.
| Company | Role | Function | Location | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generate Biomedicines | Director, Clinical Scientist (Respiratory indications) | Research | Remote | 2026-09-28 |
| Recursion | Executive Director, Clinical Pharmacology/Pharmacometrics | Research | Remote Opportunity - United Kingdom | 2026-09-25 |
| Enveda | Clinical Development Director | Research | Remote, United States | 2026-09-25 |
| Cursor | Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering - India | Engineering | Bengaluru | 2026-09-28 |
| Shield AI | Deputy Chief Engineer, X-BAT | Engineering | Seattle, Washington | 2026-09-25 |
68 more leadership openings this week, with posted ranges and a daily email, in AI Hiring Index Pro, $149/month.
Why this matters
Leadership seats are the highest-value searches and the earliest sign of a new function. A first Head of Sales at a research lab is commercialisation; a new VP Infrastructure at an application company is a compute build-out. This page shows five; members see every seat with the posted range and get them by email daily.
How it is computed
Every 6 hours the index reads the public job-board feeds of 286 AI companies (Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby), records each posting's first and last seen dates, and recomputes the week. Velocity compares the last 7 days with the company's own prior 4-week weekly average, so a small company posting 6 roles can rank above a large one posting 40. Leadership seats are matched on title (Head of, Director, VP, Chief, C-level) with individual-contributor titles such as Account Director excluded, and one seat posted in several cities counts once. Nothing is scraped from LinkedIn or self-reported.
See also: the full weekly index, posted salary ranges, and the fastest-hiring AI companies.