🧠 AI Signals

AI Job Market Signals – Which Roles Are Booming or Dying?

Volume 15 – July 8, 2025

👋 Hey Signal Readers,

The AI boom is more than just a tech trend—it’s rewriting the rules of employment across every industry.

In this issue, we’re breaking down the AI job market:
✅ Which roles are skyrocketing in demand
🆘 Which ones are on the decline
🔎 What companies are really hiring for
📈 How professionals can pivot and future-proof their careers

If you’re a founder, job seeker, team leader, or investor, this is your essential guide to what’s actually happening in the market.

Let’s dive in.

🔥 Roles That Are Booming in 2025

As of Q3 2025, the AI job market is not just for coders. The AI-first economy is opening doors for a wide range of specialized, strategic, and hybrid roles.

Here are the top booming roles:

1. Prompt Engineers & AI Interaction Designers

Forget just knowing Python—companies want people who know how to talk to AI.

🔎 What They Do:

• Design effective prompts for LLMs

• Tune AI behavior to match brand tone

• Build interfaces that allow non-tech users to work with AI

💼 Who’s Hiring:

• Marketing agencies, SaaS platforms, enterprise tech

• Startups building on GPTs, Claude, and open-source models

🧰 Tools/Skills Needed:

• ChatGPT / Claude / Mistral

• LangChain, ReAct, vector databases

• Deep understanding of logic, syntax, and instruction design

2. AI Product Managers

Companies need strategic thinkers who understand both AI capabilities and business goals.

🔎 What They Do:

• Lead development of AI-powered features

• Align AI roadmaps with company KPIs

• Work cross-functionally with data scientists, engineers, and designers

💼 Who’s Hiring:

• OpenAI partners, LLM startups, fintech, medtech, martech

• Corporations adopting AI internally

🧰 Tools/Skills Needed:

• Agile & product management

• Knowledge of AI model limits & capabilities

• Competitive intelligence (knowing the LLM landscape)

3. AI Safety, Ethics, and Policy Specialists

As AI spreads, regulation and safety are no longer optional—they’re critical.

🔎 What They Do:

• Evaluate model behavior for bias, misinformation, harm

• Develop AI usage guidelines and ethical policies

• Collaborate with governments and watchdogs

💼 Who’s Hiring:

• Big tech (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta)

• Universities, NGOs, governments

• Legal & compliance teams at enterprises

🧰 Tools/Skills Needed:

• Philosophy, law, governance

• Knowledge of alignment research and model risk

• Familiarity with AI acts (EU AI Act, U.S. AI bills)

4. Synthetic Media Specialists (Video, Voice, 3D)

The rise of generative AI tools like Sora, Runway, ElevenLabs, and Pika is creating demand for content creators who work with AI.

🔎 What They Do:

• Create training data, demo reels, marketing assets using AI tools

• Optimize video, audio, and 3D assets for storytelling and ad campaigns

• Push the boundaries of AI creativity

💼 Who’s Hiring:

• Creative studios, ad agencies, media companies, YouTubers, brands

🧰 Tools/Skills Needed:

• Runway ML, Pika Labs, HeyGen

• Sora (OpenAI), ElevenLabs

• Premiere Pro, After Effects + prompt skills

5. AI Implementation Consultants / Enterprise Integrators

There’s a gold rush to embed AI across departments—and consultants are guiding the way.

🔎 What They Do:

• Audit internal workflows to identify AI opportunities

• Build AI systems using tools like Zapier, Make, Notion AI

• Train teams on usage and ethical practices

💼 Who’s Hiring:

• Mid-sized companies, consulting firms, solopreneurs

• Anyone struggling with “Where do we start with AI?”

🧰 Tools/Skills Needed:

• Zapier, ChatGPT Team, Make, Notion AI

• Business analysis, UX strategy, change management

⚠️ Roles in Decline – The AI Displacement List

Not every job is safe in the AI economy. While some are evolving, others are being rapidly automated, outsourced to AI agents, or phased out altogether.

Here’s the shortlist of declining roles in 2025:

1. Junior Copywriters

AI tools like Jasper, Copy.ai, and ChatGPT are producing high-quality content at scale.

📉 Trend:

• Companies prefer using AI + editor combo

• Basic blog posts, SEO blurbs, product descriptions are mostly automated

🔄 How to Pivot:

• Move upmarket: specialize in brand voice, long-form strategy, or storytelling

• Learn prompt writing for AI co-creation

2. Data Entry & Basic Analysts

AI agents now read, clean, visualize, and interpret data in seconds.

📉 Trend:

• Entry-level Excel/SQL jobs disappearing

• Dashboards build themselves using AI (e.g., ClickUp AI, Notion, Tableau GPT)

🔄 How to Pivot:

• Learn to ask business questions and tell data stories

• Upskill in AI data tools and automation

3. Administrative Assistants

Many traditional EA/VA tasks (scheduling, emailing, research) are now done by AI agents.

📉 Trend:

• Motion, x.ai, and Reclaim are replacing manual calendar and task planning

• Companies are hiring 1 assistant instead of 3, supplemented with AI

🔄 How to Pivot:

• Train in AI admin tools and become a hybrid EA + operator

• Offer AI system setup services

4. Customer Support Tier 1 Agents

AI-powered chatbots and voice assistants are handling 60–90% of support tickets.

📉 Trend:

• Intercom Fin, Ada, and GPT-based agents are fast, empathetic, and cheap

• Teams are shrinking and focusing on escalation only

🔄 How to Pivot:

• Become an AI support trainer

• Move to customer experience strategy or loyalty management

5. Generic Recruiters

AI now sources candidates, scans resumes, and even runs pre-interviews.

📉 Trend:

• Tools like Hireflow, Fetcher, and ChatGPT interview agents are trimming recruitment teams

🔄 How to Pivot:

• Specialize in hard-to-hire roles, executive search, or culture fit assessments

• Offer AI-augmented talent advisory services

📊 Hiring Trends by Industry

💡 Where The Smart People Are Moving

People are now choosing careers that:

✅ Leverage AI as a teammate
✅ Focus on creativity, empathy, and vision
✅ Require judgment and context
✅ Avoid repetition and rigid workflows

🎓 What to Learn (Now)

High-Demand Skills in AI Job Market:

• Prompt engineering & system design

• OpenAI API, Claude, Mistral, Llama 3

• LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, TaskMatrix

• RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)

• Python + LLM workflows

• Ethical AI, privacy & compliance

• UX for AI interfaces

• AI video editing, audio cloning, 3D generation

🔮 Forecast: The Next 12 Months

📌 Signal Summary – TL;DR

• AI is not eliminating jobs—it’s reshaping them

• Some roles are booming (prompt engineering, AI PM, media specialists)

• Others are fading (basic support, data entry, low-level writing)

• The winners? Those who collaborate with AI, not compete against it

• The new resume = your projects, your agents, your AI fluency

📅 Coming Next Week:

“How to Build a Personal AI Stack for Your Career” – don’t miss it.