Grows with AI

Business operations specialists, all other

All business operations specialists not listed separately.

AI Resistance Index 26 of 99

Changing faster than most: more resilient than 26% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by +3.9% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on creative vision and emotional intelligence.

AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.

Median pay (2025): $83,050
Job growth to 2035: +3.9%
Openings a year: 98,700
People doing it (2025): 1.2 million
Usual route in: Bachelor's degree

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Where people already use AI for this work

Develop marketing or promotional materials
Purchase goods or services
Execute financial transactions

From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).

Work AI rarely helps with

Develop contingency or emergency response plans
Develop sustainable organizational or business policies or practices
Investigate the environmental impact of industrial or development activities

What the work looks like

Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.
Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
Fill customer orders by packaging sold items and documentation for direct shipping or by transferring orders to manufacturers or third-party distributors.
Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.

From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.

What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects

More of these jobs, as an expected increase in business activities and investments into digital technology increase demand to manage and support expanded business operations by managing offices.

Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook

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Also known as: Business Continuity Administrator (Business Continuity Admin), Business Continuity Analyst, Business Continuity Consultant, Business Continuity Coordinator, Sustainability Consultant, Sustainability Coordinator, Sustainability Specialist, Sustainable Design Coordinator.

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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.