I have a pet peeve in that every role within every organization fancies the need for there to be a CXO of that role. I don't know how many CXOs is too many to spoil the broth, but it's a smaller number than those that exist. I'm collecting all the CXO roles, with a focus on new and exciting ones, because I'm idly curious to see how high a number I can grow that to. If I find any relevant websites or professional associations, I'll add them.
I recognize that some of these titles are...let's say unique to a particular organization or circumstances. I also recognize that there is overlap in some of them and/or that some of them are quite specific for some reason - e.g., the multiple different Chief AI roles listed below. Doesn't matter - someone signed off on those as titles.
Food for thought:
- How many CXOs is too many?
- What's the right ratio of CXOs to, well, everyone else in an organization?
- If a CXO reports to another CXO that's not the CEO, is that CXO really a CXO, or is it just a VP (or even director!) with a sexier title?
- Chief Academic Officer - seen in news story 9/9/2023, https://www.acao.org/
- Chief Acceleration Officer - seen on Twitter 3/29/2022
- Chief Accounting Officer - seen in a story about Tesla on 8/7/2023
- Chief Administrative Officer
- Chief Advisory Officer - seen on Twitter 5/13/2024
- Chief AI and Robotics Officer - course ad seen for CAIRO "certification" on 9/30/2024
- Chief AI Architect - job title seen 3/12/2025
- Chief AI Chat Data Scientist - seen on Twitter 10/22/2023
- Chief AI Ethics Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/2/2024
- Chief AI Officer - seen on LinkedIn 6/13/2023
- Chief AI Strategist - seen on LinkedIn 9/2/2024
- Chief Amazement Officer - seen on Twitter, most recently on 2/7/2022
- Chief Analytics Officer
- Chief Analytics and Insights Officer, https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
- Chief Architect (in the context of enterprise architecture) - seen on LinkedIn 5/10/2024
- Chief Artificial Intelligence and Information Security Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/7/2024
- Chief Audit Executive - LinkedIn, 8/3/2022
- Chief Automation Officer - 8/25/2022, https://venturebeat.com/automation/the-emergence-of-the-chief-automation-officer/
- Chief Banking Officer - seen on LinkedIn 5/20/2024
- Chief Behavioral Officer
- Chief Blow S**t Up Officer - title seen 1/15/2025
- Chief Brand Officer
- Chief Brand Engagement Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023
- Chief Budget Officer
- Chief Business Development Officer
- Chief Business Officer
- Chief Business & Product Officer - someone's current job title on LinkedIn 8/12/2023
- Chief Candy Officer - https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/love-candy-heres-the-job-for-you-5930866/
- Chief Cheerleader
- Chief Claims Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/26/2023
- Chief Client Officer - seen on LinkedIn 5/23/2025
- Chief Client Services Officer - UCE received 9/7/2023
- Chief Cloud Officer
- Chief Coffee Officer - seen on local news 9/24/2024
- Chief Coffee Orderer
- Chief Commercial Officer
- Chief Communications Officer
- Chief Compliance Officer
- Chief Connectivity Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/19/2021
- Chief Consulting Officer - seen on LinkedIn as job title 2/18/2024
- Chief Content Officer
- Chief Copilot - job title seen on LinkedIn post 6/24/2024
- Chief Corporate Affairs Officer - heard in news story 10/13/2023
- Chief Corporate Citizenship Officer - saw LinkedIn post by someone with that title 2/1/2024
- Chief Counsel - seen on LinkedIn 7/12/2024
- Chief Course Artisan - seen on LinkedIn 4/12/2023
- Chief Creative Officer
- Chief Culture Officer - seen on LinkedIn post by someone with that title 12/26/2023
- Chief Customer Officer - http://www.ccocouncil.org/
- Chief Customer and Innovation Officer - seen on LinkedIn promotion announcement 7/31/2023
- Chief Data and Analytics Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/15/2022
- Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/9/2021
- Chief Data and Insights Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
- Chief Data & Trust officer - 8/3/2022
- Chief Data Ethics Officer - Forbes, seen on LinkedIn 7/12/2024
- Chief Data Governance and Privacy Officer - 8/3/2022; embraced by Gartner
- Chief Data Officer
- Chief Decision Scientist, job title seen on LinkedIn 4/21/2024
- Chief Design Officer
- Chief Development Officer - seen in a succession announcement on Twitter 1/24/2024
- Chief Digital Officer
- Chief Digital and Administrative Officer - seen on LinkedIn 10/15/2022
- Chief Digital and Analytics Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
- Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
- Chief Digital, Data and Analytics Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
- Chief Digital, Data & Technology Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
- Chief Digital and Information Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/2/2022
- Chief Digital Democracy and Rights Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/16/2025
- Chief Digital Responsibility and Public Policy Officer - 8/3/2022
- Chief Digital Risk Officer - 8/3/2022
- Chief Digital Service Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/29/2024
- Chief Digital Transformation Officer - someone took that role and posted it on LinkedIn 4/11/2022
- Chief Digital Wellness Officer - seen on LinkedIn on 9/21/2022
- Chief Disability Officer
- Chief Diversity Officer
- Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer - seen on 7/26/2022
- Chief E-Commerce Officer
- Chief Economist
- Chief Enablement Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/10/2023
- Chief Encouragement Officer - seen on Twitter 9/27/2022
- Chief Engineer
- Chief Engineering Officer
- Chief Enthusiasm Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023
- Chief Entrepreneur - seen on LinkedIn 1/3/2023
- Chief Environmental, Social and Governance Officer - 1/18/2023
- Chief Equality Officer - https://www.worklife.news/leadership/chief-trust-officer/
- Chief Equity Officer - seen online 10/4/2023
- Chief Ethics Officer
- Chief Ethics, Compliance and Privacy Officer - seen on LinkedIn 10/7/2024
- Chief Evangelist - worked with two of them c. 2015-2020
- Chief Events Officer
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Experience Officer
- Chief External Affairs Officer - seen as a job title 2/19/2024
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief FOIA Officer - seen on Twitter 9/20/2024
- Chief Fruit Officer - seen on a commercial for Welch's Fruit Snacks, but drives home the proliferation of CXO titles even better than this list does IMO.
- Chief Future Officer
- Chief Futurist
- Chief Gaming Officer
- Chief Genealogical Officer
- Chief Global Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Officer - someone with that title seen on LinkedIn 8/25/2023
- Chief Governance Officer
- Chief Growth Officer
- Chief Happiness Officer
- Chief Health Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/31/2022
- Chief Health Equity Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/14/2022
- Chief Heart Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
- Chief Human Resources Officer - https://www.hrpolicy.org/
- Chief Image Officer
- Chief Impact Officer - seen in marketing email 1/17/2024
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Information and Data Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
- Chief Information and Operations Officer - announced on LinkedIn 9/22/2023
- Chief Information, Data, and Digital Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
- Chief Information Governance Officer - https://www.cigoa.org
- Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer - 8/3/2022
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Chief Innovation Officer
- Chief Innovation Strategist - seen on Twitter 5/21/2025
- Chief Innovation and Technology Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/16/2023
- Chief Innovation and Value Officer - seen via email 5/3/2023
- Chief Inspiration Officer
- Chief Integration Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/25/2022
- Chief Integrator Officer - seen at the AIIM22 conference 4/29/2022
- Chief Intellectual Property Officer
- Chief Internet Evangelist
- Chief Investment Officer
- Chief Joy Officer
- Chief Knowledge Officer
- Chief Knowledge and Innovation Officer - job announced on LinkedIn 7/31/2023
- Chief Learning Architect - title seen on Twitter 2/22/2025
- Chief Learning Officer
- Chief Learning Culture Officer - new eBook by Curious Lion 4/11/2022
- Chief Legal Officer
- Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/10/2022
- Chief Legal and Compliance Officer - title seen in use on Twitter 9/12/2023
- Chief Legal Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/10/2023
- Chief Legal Technologist - seen on LinkedIn 2/25/2022
- Chief Lending Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/20/2022
- Chief Listening Officer
- Chief Market Intelligence Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/23/2024
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/8/2025
- Chief Marketing and Customer Officer - seen as job title on LinkedIn 12/20/2024
- Chief Media Officer
- Chief Medical Officer
- Chief Member Value Officer - seen on ASAE 9/24/2024
- Chief Membership & Commercial Services Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/2/2024
- Chief Membership Experience Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/10/2023
- Chief Merchandising Officer - seen in a story on LinkedIn 5/19/2022
- Chief Metaverse Officer - seen on 4/1/2022 at https://info.aiim.org/aiim-blog/how-to-prepare-for-the-metaverse
- Chief Morale Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/1/2022
- Chief Movement Officer - seen on LinkedIn
- Chief Network Officer
- Chief Networking Officer
- Chief Nuclear Officer - saw someone announcing that as their new title on LinkedIn 3/31/2023
- Chief Nursing Informatics Officer - saw someone with that title on LinkedIn 1/7/2022
- Chief Observance Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Operations Officer
- Chief Partner Officer - seen on LinkedIn announcement 7/22/2022
- Chief People Officer
- Chief People & Culture Officer - seen on LinkedIn 10/14/2024
- Chief Perception Officer
- Chief Pharmacy Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/9/2021
- Chief Physician Executive Officer - seen in a promotion announcement on LinkedIn 5/8/2024
- Chief Pizza and Beer Officer - job posting on LinkedIn for Casey's Pizza 1/18/2024
- Chief Policy Innovation Officer - 8/3/2022 on Twitter
- Chief Privacy Architect, job title seen on LinkedIn 5/28/2024
- Chief Privacy Officer
- Chief Privacy & Data Ethics Officer - 8/3/2022
- Chief Privacy and Trust Officer - seen on LinkedIn announcement 7/22/2024
- Chief Process Officer
- Chief Process and AI Officer - https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2023/07/26/michael-best-creates-ai-focused-c-suite-role/
- Chief Procurement Officer
- Chief Product Officer
- Chief Product Security Officer
- Chief Program Officer - position announced on LinkedIn 2/1/2024
- Chief Psychometric Officer - seen on 1/9/2025
- Chief Public Policy and Governance officer - LinkedIn 11/20/2024
- Chief Purpose Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
- Chief Quality Officer
- Chief Quality and Product Integrity Officer
- Chief Queer Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/23/2021
- Chief Rainmaker - seen on LinkedIn 4/14/2022
- Chief Recognition Officer - seen on Linked 12/12/2021
- Chief Records Officer
- Chief Records and Retention Officer - seen on LinkedIn 7/3/2024
- Chief Recruiting Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/11/2023
- Chief Remote Officer - BBC story on 11/2/2022 https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20221027-the-rise-of-the-chief-remote-officer
- Chief Reputation Officer
- Chief Research Officer
- Chief Resilience Officer - seen in a news story 6/27/2024
- Chief Responsible AI Officer - job posting on LinkedIn 8/10/2024
- Chief Restructuring Officer
- Chief Revenue Officer - see e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/03/13/the-ceos-new-secret-weapon-the-chief-revenue-officer
- Chief Revenue & Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/22/2024
- Chief Risk Officer
- Chief Risk, Privacy and Information Security Officer - saw someone with that title on Twitter 5/6/2024
- Chief Safety Officer
- Chief Sales Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/21/2023
- Chief Science and Practice Officer - seen on LinkedIn 7/23/2024
- Chief Scientific Officer
- Chief Scientific and Regulatory Officer
- Chief Scientist
- Chief Security Officer
- Chief Services Officer
- Chief Shampoo Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/26/2024
- Chief Social Media Officer
- Chief Stores Officer - Nordstrom has one according to a story seen 8/28/2023.
- Chief Storyteller - seen on LinkedIn 1/4/2022
- Chief Storytelling Officer
- Chief Strategic Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 9/17/2024
- Chief Strategy Officer
- Chief Strategy and Accountability Officer - posted as job title by holder on 11/1/2023
- Chief Supply Chain Officer
- Chief Sustainability Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
- Chief Talent Officer
- Chief Talent Acquisition Officer - seen in ARMA Magazine article on 7/21/2023
- Chief Talent Development Officer - seen as reference to the magazine of the same name published by ATD on 12/27/2021
- Chief Tax Officer - heard on commercial 3/31/2024
- Chief Technical Officer
- Chief Technological Product Officer
- Chief Technology Ethics Officer - first seen 11/9/2021: https://hbr.org/2021/11/thinking-through-the-ethics-of-new-techbefore-theres-a-problem
- Chief Technology Officer
- Chief Technology Innovation Officer - job title seen on LinkedIn 4/3/2025
- Chief Technology Security Officer
- Chief Technology Strategist - seen on Twitter 5/30/2023
- Chief TikTok Officer - LinkedIn story 2/14/2023 https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hot-new-job-chief-tiktok-officer-6173050/
- Chief Transformation Officer - seen as a job title on LinkedIn as of 3/30/2022
- Chief Troublemaker - seen as someone's job title on LinkedIn 5/4/2024
- Chief Trust Officer - https://www.worklife.news/leadership/chief-trust-officer/
- Chief Trust and Security Officer - someone's job title seen on LinkedIn 10/25/2023
- Chief Underwriting Officer - someone's job title seen on LinkedIn 10/31/2024
- Chief Value Officer - seen on LinkedIn as of 12/12/2021
- Chief Visibility Officer
- Chief Vision Officer - title used in a marketing email 10/18/2024
- Chief Visionary Officer
- Chief Web Officer
- Chief Wellbeing Officer
- Chief Wellness Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023
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