Cognizant plans to align some job titles with a three-stage framework for AI-related work, Mint reported, describing an effort to recast roles as employees use and supervise artificial intelligence.
The Oct. 30 internal memo reviewed by Mint divides roles into current, evolving and future states. In the future state, employees would coordinate and oversee work supported by AI, the memo says. A Cognizant spokesperson told Mint revised titles have reached some associates.
Mint reported that the memo says Cognizant’s MySkills platform went companywide in September 2026. It presents associates with a job family and role state, and the company plans to carry that information into job titles in its internal systems. The reported changes also cover solutioning, business development, sales and leadership roles.
According to the memo reviewed by Mint, the first rollout group consists of people on delivery teams at associate director level and below. Coverage spans India, Japan and the Philippines, plus North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, after local consultation and approvals. Mint reported that Europe, the Middle East and Africa would be included in a later phase.
Mint reported that Cognizant expects the changes to leave compensation, grade levels, reporting managers and performance procedures intact.
Cognizant has previously described efforts to connect career paths with AI skills. During an April 29 earnings call, Cognizant Chief Executive Ravi Kumar Singisetti said its AI Builder program “maps every role at Cognizant to a future-ready AI family” and provides learning pathways. A May 21 company blog described plans to consolidate about 90 legacy job groups into about 20 future-oriented families, linking the effort to job mobility and role transitions. That post used “current,” “transient” and “intended future” for role states, different terms from those Mint attributed to the October memo.
