A Stanford lecturer says 'every company should be hiring' a rare new AI role, and 'every single new grad' should want it

Artificial intelligence has become one of the biggest sources of anxiety for workers entering the job market.

According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 (1), 41% of employers plan to reduce their workforce by 2030 as AI automates certain tasks. Meanwhile, venture firm SignalFire reported (2) that Big Tech companies hired fewer recent graduates in 2024 than they did before the pandemic, suggesting entry-level opportunities may already be shrinking.

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Jiaona Zhang, chief product officer at AI timekeeping company Laurel and an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University, believes AI is creating an entirely new career path that could become one of the most valuable jobs for young professionals. She calls it the "AI workflows" role.

"I think every company should be hiring for this," Zhang told Business Insider (3). "That's the role I'd really push every single new grad to be going into."

According to Zhang, the role involves finding areas inside a company that can be improved with AI, then building or implementing systems that make those improvements real.