Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
The half of the move nobody writes down The case for moving sideways into AI work inside your current employer has been made on this site at length, so it is not repeated here. Our guide to moving into an AI role without leaving your employer is the week-by-week plan for making the move: twelve weeks from finding the demand to the conversation about title and pay. Read that one if you have not started yet. This page is the other half of the same problem — the institutional machinery that decides whether the move is approved, and the paperwork you are handed once it is. The distinction matters because internal moves almost never fail on the technical case. They fail on structure. There is no cost code. There is a supporter who was mistaken for a sponsor. The pitch was excellent and it was…
