Now Hiring
Head of Skills and AI Readiness Advisory
The Opportunity
Korn Ferry can tell an enterprise which roles are affected by AI. McKinsey can tell them what their future workforce strategy should look like. Neither can tell them which specific people in their organization are ready to do that work.
That individual-level, demonstrated-skills verification is Vervoe’s lane - and nobody else is in it yet.
“We completed an AI readiness engagement for a Fortune 500 company with over 7,000 employees in a single function. We defined the AI-augmented version of their core role, built a workforce assessment instrument against that profile, and created a hiring blueprint applicable at global scale. That’s the template. Your job is to systematize it, sell it, deliver it - and eventually build a team around it.”
We’re hiring the founding leader of our Skills and AI Readiness Advisory function. This is a revenue-generating, client-facing role with full ownership of positioning, commercial outcomes, and delivery for high-value engagements. You’ll work alongside our sales and account management teams, but this function is yours to build.
What This Function Does
The Skills and AI Readiness Advisory function operates at the intersection of workforce strategy and skills measurement. It’s not consulting - we don’t produce strategy documents. It’s the high-value, advisory-led work that requires both commercial credibility and deep expertise in how skills evidence gets used to make consequential workforce decisions.
AI Readiness Engagements
- Defining what AI-augmented versions of specific roles look like - the competencies, task mix, and performance benchmarks for roles that are still evolving.
- Deploying workforce assessments against those profiles to produce a segmented readiness map: who is high-ready, who is developable, who is at risk.
- Translating that map into a hiring blueprint and ongoing intelligence subscription - a continuous signal on workforce AI readiness, not a one-time report.
- Running the co-sell conversation with enterprises that have already bought diagnostic work from Korn Ferry, McKinsey, or Deloitte and need the individual-level evidence layer those firms can't provide.
Skills Advisory (Core Business)
- High-value advisory work tied to Vervoe's existing assessments business - where the engagement requires more than implementation and carries a premium rate.
- Working with enterprise clients on skills strategy, assessment program design, and workforce intelligence questions that go beyond standard product use.
- Supporting complex deals where strategic advisory capability is the reason Vervoe wins.
What You’ll Own
Revenue
You carry a number from day one. It builds as the function does, but commercial accountability is yours from the start.
Positioning
You'll define how Vervoe shows up in the AI readiness market - what we say, how we say it, which buyers we target first, and how we differentiate against consulting firms and generic assessment vendors.
Engagement Delivery
Complex, advisory-grade engagements are yours to run. You'll have a part-time fulfillment resource from day one (an existing Vervoe employee), with the team building as the function scales.
The Program Model
We have a working pricing and packaging framework for AI readiness engagements. You'll pressure-test it with real clients, refine it, and own the commercial structure going forward.
Partner Relationships
The co-sell opportunity with transformation consultancies is real and warm. You'll develop and own those relationships.
Team Building
As the function generates revenue, you'll hire and develop the team underneath you.
Who You Are
This is a genuinely unusual profile. We’re not looking for a SaaS sales leader or a pure consultant. We’re looking for someone who has done the work that CHROs and Chief Transformation Officers pay for, understands why the individual-level evidence layer is missing from what consulting firms deliver, and has the commercial instinct to monetize that gap.
You likely come from one of these three places:
Workforce strategy or org design consulting
Big 4, boutique future-of-work practice, or specialist HR advisory - where you got tired of producing recommendations that clients couldn't operationalize because they lacked evidence about what their people could actually do.
Senior enterprise HR practitioner
CHRO, VP People, or Head of Talent who has been on the buyer side of these engagements, knows exactly what the gap between strategic diagnosis and individual-level readiness feels like, and wants to be the person who closes it.
Assessment or IO psychology background with commercial instincts
Someone who understands the measurement science, has moved into GTM or advisory roles, and sees the AI readiness moment as a category-defining opportunity.
Across all three backgrounds, we’re looking for the same core attributes:
- CHRO-level credibility. You can walk into a conversation with a Chief People Officer or Chief Transformation Officer and be taken seriously as a peer - not as a vendor.
- Commercial ownership. You've carried a revenue number before, or you've been close enough to commercial outcomes that the accountability doesn't scare you. You know what it means to build a book of business from scratch.
- A track record of voluntary obsolescence. You've proactively moved away from something you were good at because you saw the landscape shifting. Your identity is attached to the outcome, not the method.
- The willingness to hold the goal tightly while holding methods loosely. The AI readiness market is moving fast. The playbook will evolve. You're comfortable building the plane while flying it.
- Builder instincts. This is a founding role inside a ~22-person company. You'll do things that don't scale before you build the systems that do.
What You’re Walking Into
We’re not asking you to validate a hypothesis. The demand exists.
- A completed AI readiness engagement with a Fortune 500 client - 7,000+ employees in a single function assessed against a future-state job profile - that serves as the proof-of-concept for every CHRO conversation you'll have.
- A working strategy memo mapping the AI readiness market, competitive landscape, buyer types, pricing model, and recommended sequencing - written for execution, not decoration.
- An inbound demand signal from enterprise TA buyers actively searching for AI skills assessment capability.
- A platform - Vervoe's task-based assessment infrastructure - that is the only product in the market capable of producing demonstrated, role-specific AI skills evidence at scale.
- Regulatory tailwinds: NYC Local Law 144, the EU AI Act, and growing enterprise demand for explainable, auditable AI-in-hiring processes.
- An experienced operator in the Vervoe team will support you from day one - you're not doing everything alone from the start.
What This Role Is Not
A pure SaaS sales role. You'll be selling, but credibility with CHRO-level buyers requires genuine expertise - not just sales process.
A standard implementation role. Complex, advisory-grade delivery is yours. Routine implementation sits with our account management team.
A consulting role inside Vervoe. We don't produce strategy documents. We produce verified skills evidence that makes strategy actionable.
A role for someone who needs a fully built playbook to execute against. The function is new. You're building the playbook.
What Happens Next
We use our own platform - every time, for every role.
Initial conversation
A quick call to make sure we're aligned on the opportunity and what you're looking for.
Skills assessment
Not a personality quiz. Designed to show us how you think about advisory and commercial problems - and give you a realistic sense of the work.
Deeper conversations
We understand what you need to be successful. You get the full picture of the opportunity, the commercial model, and the existing pipeline.
We move quickly
If we're both in, we get started. No drawn-out process.