AI CommunicationsAn AI-native communications team redraws its roles. Staffing an AI-native team is mostly reassignment, not recruitment. The people are largely the right people. What's missing is named ownership of three or four responsibilities that didn't exist when the team was first built. Quick answer. Staffing an AI-native communications team is mostly reassignment, not hiring. Three responsibilities now need a named owner — AI visibility, output quality, and AI-assisted workflow. Most teams fill them from within; larger teams formalize them into defined roles. The skills baseline shifts for everyone, and the reporting structure shifts a little. It is a redraw, not a rebuild. Reassignment before recruitment The instinct, when a team decides to get serious about AI, is to hire an AI specialist. That's usually the wrong first move. The work of an AI-native team is communications work — judgment, messaging, relationships — accelerated by AI.