The Most Important Job in the AI World & How We Educate Kids for It

Two years into NovoDia, we’d raised major institutional funding, built a global team, and navigated the complexities of an education company. Here’s the twist: we did it all without a single person in administration.

At my previous companies, this stage meant a team of HR, legal, accounting, compliance, and ops staff. At NovoDia in 2025, we had a ready-made “team” of experts for $20/month - AI agents. And yet, there came a moment when I needed something new: a manager for the AI squad.

The ideal candidate didn’t need to be an expert in legal, finance, or HR. The bots already handle that. They didn’t need to code AI. Domain-specific AI tools exist for almost everything. What mattered was generalist management - the ability to orchestrate, align, and tune a team of digital specialists. (Welcome, Yana Fidelman).

𝐒𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐞𝐫𝐚? I believe yes. The manager of tomorrow won’t be supervising people or climbing the old corporate ladder. They’ll be orchestrating squads of AI agents. There will be no juniors. 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲-𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬, holding outsized influence on their organizations.

And yet, the essence of management remains, just redefined:

• Hire the right people → Select the right tools.

• Onboard employees → Train your tools with context and culture.

• Motivate people → Build workflows and guardrails to sustain quality.

• Give feedback → Tune and refine continuously.

𝐒𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐊-12?

If one of the most esteemed jobs of the future is managing AI teams, are schools preparing students for it? Today’s standards and curricula are rooted in the old world, while tomorrow’s “entry-level” employees will already be managers of digital teams.

At NovoDia, we have a unique vantage point: we’re a curriculum provider for public schools, but also an employer of the future, already running our company on AI. We live this dual reality every day.

This is the first post in a series where I’ll explore:

• The new families of jobs students will enter in the AI economy.

• Why human value will shift upward into culture, creativity, and fulfillment.

• How countries like Singapore and the UAE are already rewriting K-12 for this reality.

• And how schools can embed these skills inside today’s curricula.

But let’s start here: If managing AI agent squads is the top job of the future, what skills should schools be teaching today to prepare kids for it?

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