AI and changing roles
Know which AI skills each role needs, and who has them
Add AI competencies and the emerging skills in your industry to every role, then survey proficiency to see where your people stand.
Marketing Manager
4 AI skillsAI skill survey · share of the team at the required level
AI FluencyAI competency61%
Evaluating AI OutputAI competency47%
AI-assisted researchEmerging26%
Delegating work to AI agentsEmerging18%
Group development plan assigned
14 people · focused on the two emerging AI skills
The problem
AI is changing roles faster than HR can plan.
Most HR teams are being asked to prepare the workforce for AI without a clear view of which roles are changing, or how.
“New jobs are emerging all the time… there’s also new skills that we’re rapidly having to acquire.”
People leader
01
Roles outpace documents
Roles are changing faster than job descriptions can be updated.
02
No readiness data
There is no data on which teams are ready for AI.
03
One size for everyone
AI training is offered to everyone, in the same form.
04
Uncertain employees
Employees are unsure where their role is going.
What changes
AI readiness measured role by role
Without one system
With Career Bird
Job descriptions were written before AI, so they leave out the skills roles now need.
Career Bird suggests emerging skills for each role, and HR approves which ones the role requires.
Everyone gets the same AI course, whether or not their role needs it.
Development plans are assigned by role and by gap, so training goes to the people who need it.
Nobody is measuring the new skills, so there is no way to tell which teams are ready.
Proficiency is measured by team and skill category, so readiness can be reported to leadership.
Employees are unsure how AI will change their role or what to learn next.
Career paths show the next role and the skills it takes to get there.
How it works
Prepare your roles and people for AI in weeks, not months
Career Bird suggests. Your team customizes.
Step 1
Update roles
Career Bird suggests emerging skills for each role. Your team approves them.
Step 2
Measure readiness
Survey proficiency on the new skills by team.
Step 3
Plan development
Group development plans for the cohorts that need them.
Step 4
Track progress
See which teams are moving, by skill.
Career frameworks built with Career Bird
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AI is rewriting roles faster than most companies can respond.
Ted EmersonVP, Head of PeopleNew · AI competencies
A ready-made library of AI competencies
- 15 AI competencies across five categories, from AI fluency to AI governance and strategy.
- Each comes with a definition and demonstrated behaviors for individual contributors, managers and senior leaders.
- Add them to any role as their own skill type, then survey proficiency and build development plans like any other skill.
Skill library15 AI competencies · 5 categories
SkillsCore competenciesLeadership competenciesAI competenciesNEW
AI Foundations3
AI in Daily Work5
Building with AI2
Leading with AI3
AI Governance & Strategy2
Prompting & Instructing AIICManager
Delegating Work to AI AgentsICManagerSenior leader
Deciding which tasks to hand to AI agents, setting them up to succeed, and reviewing their work.
Demonstrated behaviors
• Hands off multi-step tasks with clear goals and checkpoints
• Reviews agent work before it affects customers or records
• Keeps human sign-off on irreversible actions
• Reviews agent work before it affects customers or records
• Keeps human sign-off on irreversible actions
Evaluating AI OutputICManager
AI-Assisted Writing & ContentICManager
Skill library · AI competencies by category, with levels and demonstrated behaviors
Emerging skills
See which AI skills are emerging in your industry
- Career Bird monitors competitor job postings and industry news for skills appearing where they were not before.
- Detection runs at every level: role, sub-category, category and job family.
- Your team decides which skills each role requires, and at what level.
Emerging skills · agents that watch competitors, your industry and every role
AI skill survey
Survey proficiency on the new AI skills
- Each survey is personalized to the AI skills the employee’s role now requires.
- Employees self-assess and managers calibrate each rating.
- Proficiency levels are defined for every AI skill, so ratings mean the same thing across teams.
Skill survey · AI skills rated at proficiency levels
Readiness
A measured view of AI readiness
- See proficiency on new skills by department, role and skill category.
- Find the teams to start with.
- Re-survey to show leadership what has moved.
Proficiency report · employee counts by skill category and level
Group development plans
Development plans for whole cohorts
- Assign a plan to everyone in a role or team who shares a gap.
- Plans are connected to the role, the skills it requires and a learning resource library.
- Career Bird identifies work projects that help employees build each skill.
Group development plan · assigned skills and progress
Who this helps
How each team across HR benefits
Solved with
“I’ve followed Career Bird’s evolution from the start, and it’s clear this platform was built by people who truly understand how organizations and talent grow. What stands out most is how Career Bird makes skills the common language across job design, learning, and mobility.”
Don CarterEVP of People & Culture, Kiva“What impressed me most is the depth. It’s not just a checklist of features — there’s a real understanding of how organizations evolve, how skills shift, and how people learn and grow in their careers.”
Heather VeldmanVP of Total Rewards, Go Health“You can tell Career Bird wasn’t just thrown together by software engineers. It’s clear that IO psychologists and HR leaders played a significant role in developing it — the frameworks are thoughtful, practical, and grounded in science.”
Kira MeinzerChief People Officer, Envoy Global“Career Bird connects the dots between job design, skills, learning, and mobility. Instead of separate systems and spreadsheets, we now have a single platform that ties everything together.”
Gail RodmanVP Talent Strategy & People Experience, Unite Us“So many platforms claim to be skills-focused, but Career Bird is actually built that way. It treats skills as the foundation for job design, learning, and career paths. That matters right now because AI is rewriting roles faster than most companies can respond.”
Ted EmersonVP, Head of People“Career Bird is one of the few HR platforms that feels like it was built for the end-user. Teams won’t need a lengthy rollout or training — it’s intuitive, clear, and something managers and employees actually want to use.”
Maureen CalabreseFormer Chief People Officer, Sprout Social and Modern Health“Career Bird helps companies prepare for the future by turning skills data into human growth, organizational agility, and real impact.”
Rishad TobaccowalaFormer Chief Strategist and Growth Officer, Publicis Groupe“Career Bird was selected to participate in the competitive PeopleTech Partners Growth Program as they are building meaningful solutions for Talent and People Leaders aligned with what’s next in work.”
Cara Brennan AllamanoFounding Partner, PeopleTech PartnersIntegrations
Fits the HR stack you already run
Career Bird pulls employee data from your HRIS and sends job descriptions to your ATS. Your HRIS stays the system of record for people; Career Bird for roles and skills.
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Built for employee data
SOC 2 Type II audited, with a GDPR-aligned data processing agreement and role-based access for every user. Your data is never used to train AI models.
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Questions buyers ask
Does Career Bird deliver training?
Career Bird does not deliver courses itself. It identifies the skills each role needs, measures gaps, and builds development plans connected to a learning resource library and to work projects.
Which AI skills does Career Bird suggest?
Career Bird suggests emerging skills based on each role's responsibilities. Your team decides which ones apply and at what proficiency.
Is our data used to train AI models?
No. Your data is never used to train AI models.
See how AI is changing your roles.
Start with the roles that matter most. Career Bird suggests the emerging skills, and your team decides what to keep.