The Agent Resources Director is the human who manages the company's AI agents: their org chart, a job description for each one, who does what, which access, which permissions, and whether they do the job well. Everything HR does, brought into the agentic era.
People have always had theirs, kept by HR. Agents need one too: every agent has a place, a human it works for, and someone who knows at any moment what it is doing.
Just like an employee: a mission, a manager, objectives. Plus what an employee never had to write down: the exact list of its access, what it is allowed to do, and what it must never do.
That is the Agent Resources Director's promise to the CEO. If one answer is missing, an agent is working unsupervised.
An up-to-date register of every agent, its mission and the human it works for.
Every tool, folder and inbox opened to an agent, and the day it was granted.
Read, draft, propose, send, pay: every permission is decided, written down and revisable.
Objectives, checks, a regular review. An agent that disappoints is fixed, or replaced.
Where the two org charts meet: one employee, one or more agents, a clear split of the work. The human decides, the agent prepares, checks and repeats. HR looks after the human, the Agent Resources Director after the agent, and together they make the duo work.
A manager's job, not a developer's. Judgment, method and rigor.
Every company is deploying agents, and almost none keeps their org chart. A brand-new role, a rare skill and a seat next to the leadership team: the kind of job that tends to be very well paid.
new seat on the leadership team, next to the HR Director.
line of code needed. It is a management job.
agents to recruit, supervise and review in the years to come.
How come you do not have an Agent Resources Director yet? If one of these sentences sounds familiar, you need one.
The new job that just came out. Here is how we get you there.
Two minutes, right below.
To understand your background and what you already know about agents.
Agent org charts, job descriptions, access, permissions, reviews.
To large companies looking for their first Agent Resources Director.
No need to be technical. What matters: organizing work, writing a clear brief and checking it is followed.
It is a new one. Companies that deploy many agents already need someone to own them, and that person is rarely HR or IT. The title is starting to appear; the people who learn it first will shape it.
No. You need to know what agents can and cannot do, write a clear job description, decide on access and check a result. Those are HR and management skills.
IT installs the tools and secures the systems. The Agent Resources Director decides who does what, with which access, and makes sure the work gets done. Just like HR and IT for employees.
HR people, team leads, operations managers, consultants: anyone who already manages work and wants to manage the new colleagues too.
Never. The two work as a pair: HR for the people, Agent Resources for the agents, and both for the duos.