Career Intelligence Universe
Careers People Can Pivot Into
Published JR career-change paths — adjacent moves with real role research on both sides where available.
What this theme is: Pivot destinations come from JR’s published /career-change/ graph, not invented rankings.
- 26 individually researched roles linked below
- AI patterns use published Index tiers only — no invented family scores
- Next step: personal assessment → skill gaps → learning → proof → opportunities
Roles included (researched)
Only individually researched occupations are listed with Index tiers. Related directory titles appear on the coverage map as taxonomy-mapped — not as fake research.
Evidence note: AI exposure tiers below come only from JR’s published AI Job Risk Index for individually researched occupations. Taxonomy-mapped titles are discoverable but are not individually scored.
AI impact pattern
Tier counts only for individually researched roles shown on this page.
High automation pressure
1 researched roles in this set (published Index: high).
Augmentation-heavy
20 researched roles (published Index: moderate).
Human-led / AI-assisted
5 researched roles (published Index: low).
Common responsibilities
Aggregated from JR’s role taxonomy dimensions for the researched occupations above — not scraped job ads.
- Communication — appears in 16 researched roles in this set
- Planning — appears in 15 researched roles in this set
- Analysis — appears in 11 researched roles in this set
- Judgment — appears in 9 researched roles in this set
- Creation — appears in 8 researched roles in this set
- Management — appears in 8 researched roles in this set
- Execution — appears in 7 researched roles in this set
- Research — appears in 4 researched roles in this set
Human advantage
- Domain expertise — shared across 16 researched roles
- Judgment — shared across 15 researched roles
- Leadership — shared across 11 researched roles
- Relationships — shared across 8 researched roles
- Creativity — shared across 6 researched roles
- Accountability — shared across 5 researched roles
- Trust — shared across 2 researched roles
- Negotiation — shared across 1 researched role
Typical moves & adjacent careers
- sde to sdm (software-developer → engineering-manager)
- sde to tpm (software-developer → technical-program-manager)
- sde to technical product manager (software-developer → technical-product-manager)
- sde to solutions architect (software-developer → solutions-architect)
- sde to ai ml engineer (software-developer → ai-engineer)
- sde to staff principal engineer (software-developer → staff-principal-engineer)
- sdm to tpm (engineering-manager → technical-program-manager)
- sdm to product manager (engineering-manager → product-manager)
- sdm to technical product manager (engineering-manager → technical-product-manager)
- tpm to technical product manager (technical-program-manager → technical-product-manager)
- tpm to product manager (technical-program-manager → product-manager)
- tpm to engineering manager (technical-program-manager → engineering-manager)
What can I move into? · Skills that survive across careers
Learning & proof
Academy topics and public guides already wired to these roles:
- What is AI?
- How AI Shows Up at Work Today
- AI Terms You Should Know
- Prompt Engineering Techniques (Chain-of-Thought, ReAct)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Architecture
- Kinds of AI (Generative, Predictive, and More)
- Data Manipulation with Pandas
- Relational Database Design & SQL Basics
Also: Upskill Academy · Excel at Work · Freelance projects · Job board
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Updated 2026-09-15. Methodology: how scoring works · research · coverage & evidence depths.