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Open Chief AI Officer roles (2)

Chief AI Officer

State of Arkansas
On-site · Little Rock, AR · Full-time
$118k to $192k AI Governance Posted Jun 16, 2026

Head of Responsible AI & Governance

Vertex Inc.
Remote · Denver, Colorado · Full-time
Featured AI Governance Posted Jun 25, 2026

About the Chief AI Officer role

The Chief AI Officer is the newest seat in the C-suite, and the one every regulated company is racing to fill. The CAIO owns how an organization builds, buys, and governs AI: the risk, the compliance, the ethics, and the board-level answer for what the technology is allowed to do. It sits on top of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act. If you can govern AI at the enterprise level, this is the title that did not exist three years ago and now commands a budget.

Compliance Officer paystats as of Q2 2026

BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.

Sources: BLS, 2024 median

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