---
type: "synthesis"
sources: ["agentic"]
tags: ["future-of-work", "roles", "organizational-design"]
id: "cross-new-roles"
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-agentic"
originDay: 6
articleStem: "hbr-seg-agentic"
sourceUrl: "(unified vault: 9 sources)"
sourceTitle: "HBR — Firm Ⅱ-A · Agentic operating model / brand code / workstreams"
---
The corpus is collectively drafting a new taxonomy of jobs for the agentic firm. Four articles each coin a role; together they sketch a coherent hierarchy.

- **The individual contributor** becomes A027's [[concept-thought-doer]] — fusing strategy and execution by building their own agents ([[claim-collapse-of-strategy-operations-divide]]); or A002's "director of work" ([[concept-shift-from-output-to-judgment]]).
- **The manager** becomes A058's [[concept-agent-manager]] (orchestrating the [[concept-hybrid-workforce]] via [[concept-ai-orchestration]], per [[framework-agent-manager-capabilities]]) or A027's [[concept-judgment-architect]] (operationalizing expertise into human + digital form).
- **The org** shifts, per A017, toward [[concept-human-role-ownership]] and [[concept-human-role-verification]] as the two irreducible human functions.

**Shared DNA across all four:** (1) domain judgment beats technical credentials ([[claim-agent-manager-non-technical]], [[claim-technical-skills-secondary]]); (2) the role is *durable*, not transitional — A058 analogizes it to the product manager and SRE (see [[prereq-devops-sre]]); (3) it is learned by apprenticeship in live operations ([[action-treat-as-apprenticeship]], [[quote-stauber-routine]]).

**The pointed tension:** these role articles enthusiastically anthropomorphize ("manage agents like coaching employees") — exactly what A016 warns against via [[concept-ai-employee-framing]] (see [[cross-colleague-or-tool]]). The synthesis: manage the *work* like labor, keep the *accountability* human. Salesforce's [[entity-zach-stauber]] ([[quote-earnest-curiosity]]) and A017's "high agency" hire are the same archetype under two names — the human face of [[cross-rewire-not-bolt-on|the rewiring thesis]].