Junior AI Adoption & Automation Officer (Permanent)

Job description

Rothschild & Co

Rothschild & Co is a leading international financial services group, family-controlled for seven generations and at the center of financial markets for more than 200 years. Our expertise, know-how, and global network enable us to offer a distinctive perspective that benefits our clients’ businesses and wealth, as well as our stakeholders, while respecting our planet. Our 4,200 financial advisory specialists work on the ground in more than 40 countries and provide a unique international perspective through four leading businesses: Global Advisory, Wealth Management, Asset Management, and Five Arrows. As a family group founded on human relationships, we place particular importance on recruiting and developing our employees so they can thrive in their careers.

Context

Rothschild & Co Martin Maurel is the Rothschild & Co Group’s private bank in France. In a demanding, highly regulated, changing private-banking environment, business teams are accelerating the identification and deployment of AI, RPA, Copilot, and Copilot Studio use cases.

Business Support manages a cross-functional program based on a network of AI Leads (project-side AI managers) and AI Champions (business colleagues allocated time to AI initiatives). The program aims to identify each team’s needs, generate and share good ideas, assess and prioritize use cases, support experiments, industrialize appropriate solutions, and gradually develop a shared foundation of AI and automation knowledge at RMM.

To strengthen the program and accelerate AI adoption, this full-time role will support the lead of the AI Leads / Champions network, providing ongoing operational help with tool testing, Champion support, committee preparation, and coordination with Group Digital and RMM IT teams.

Main mission

Within Business Support, you will support the implementation and adoption of AI and automation solutions across business teams, working closely with AI Leads / Champions, Group Digital, and RMM IT.

As an operational AI facilitator, you will identify use cases, test market tools, help teams create agents, formalize requirements, prepare AI/automation committees, and coordinate the AI Leads and Champions community. Your role is to turn business ideas and needs into concrete, testable, deployable use cases that improve productivity and service quality, simplify processes, and support continuous improvement.

This role does not involve software development or coding. Group Digital and RMM IT teams will make target-solution and architecture decisions and handle complex development; you will work closely with them. Your hands-on work will focus mainly on configuration, setup, and support for creating Copilot agents, with a focus on business use and user adoption.

Main objectives

• Accelerate identification, assessment, and implementation of AI, Copilot, Copilot Studio, and automation (RPA) use cases across RMM business teams.
• Help AI Champions formalize needs, test tools, and, where appropriate, design or develop agents.
• Help build a qualified use-case backlog prioritized by business value, feasibility, risks, and expected benefits.
• Promote adoption of AI and automation solutions by sharing best practices and helping teams learn the tools.
• Ensure smooth coordination among Business Support, AI Leads, AI Champions, Group Digital, IT, and specialist AI/RPA/Copilot contributors.

Key responsibilities

1. Support AI Leads and AI Champions

• Support the lead of the AI Leads / Champions network in running the community.
• Help Champions identify, structure, and formalize AI or automation needs in their teams.
• Analyze and assess submitted use cases, clarifying business value, expected benefits, constraints, and prerequisites.
• Support Champions during solution testing, prototyping, acceptance testing, and deployment.
• Help share AI best practices and gradually develop team capabilities.
• Help organize workshops, demonstrations, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

1. Functional design and experimentation with AI agents

• Contribute to designing, configuring, or developing Copilot / Copilot Studio agents according to identified needs.
• Help business teams turn their needs into simple, testable, industrializable functional scenarios.
• Run functional tests on agents or tools with business users.
• Document use cases, limitations, prerequisites, usage rules, and lessons learned.
• Help improve existing agents based on user feedback.

1. Technology monitoring, tool testing, and best-practice sharing

• Actively track market AI tools that could support private banking, business support, document analysis, productivity, or automation.
• Test AI solutions or features and analyze their benefits, limitations, risks, and conditions of use.
• Prepare concise feedback to inform deployment or experimentation decisions.
• Share best practices with AI Leads, Champions, and Group Digital teams.
• Help teams understand relevant, responsible, secure AI practices.

1. Support AI / automation governance

• Help prepare AI / Automation committees.
• Consolidate the use-case backlog, track status, and prepare decisions.
• Prepare summaries of progress, blockers, decisions needed, and benefits achieved.
• Track committee actions with the network lead and relevant stakeholders.
• Help make the program visible to RMM teams and, when relevant, Group stakeholders.

1. Operational coordination with Group Digital, IT, and business teams

• Be a day-to-day operational contact for Group Digital teams on AI, Copilot, and automation, under the supervision of the AI Leads network lead.
• Facilitate communication among business teams, Business Support, IT, RPA, AI for Business, AI for All, and Copilot Studio.
• Prepare analyses to direct use cases to the best solution: RPA, AI, Copilot, Copilot Studio, or another tool.
• Track development, testing, acceptance, and deployment with contributors.
• Help ensure proposed solutions are coherent and integrated into business workflows.

Required skills

• Strong interest in AI, digital tools, automation, and emerging technology uses.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including ability to make AI topics accessible to non-specialists.
• Excellent command of Microsoft 365 tools, especially Teams, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Copilot.
• Ability to understand a business need, restate it, and turn it into a concrete use case.
• Ability to test solutions, document findings, and make simple, practical recommendations.
• Analytical mindset, technical curiosity, and ability to learn new tools quickly.
• Professional or bilingual English, given potential interactions with Group and international teams.

Preferred skills

• Initial experience or personal projects involving generative AI, agents, automation, no-code/low-code, or prompt engineering.
• Familiarity with Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Automate, RPA, or market AI tools.
• Awareness of security, confidentiality, data quality, compliance, and traceability in a banking environment.
• Knowledge of or interest in private banking, banking operations, business support, or asset management.
• Ability to create clear materials: summaries, user guides, training documents, and committee presentations.

Personal qualities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to work with varied stakeholders.
• Strong curiosity about AI, digital technology, and useful innovation for business teams.
• Service-oriented and enjoys supporting users.
• Patient, attentive, and able to explain technical topics clearly.
• Team spirit.
• Rigorous and organized, with ability to track several topics at once.
• Practical mindset and interest in testing, prototyping, and continuous improvement.
• Able to work in a demanding, regulated, cross-functional environment.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s to Master’s degree (Bac+3 to Bac+5), ideally in project management, digital technology, AI, business, engineering with a digital specialization, or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience required.
• Initial experience in a digital project, business support, automation, generative AI, product ownership, or digital transformation is an advantage.

Target profile

This role suits someone comfortable with digital tools who is curious, independent, pragmatic, and able to connect business needs with practical AI solutions. You should enjoy exploring tools, rapidly testing solutions, understanding operational pain points, and supporting users as they adopt new ways of working. You should also enjoy working closely with business teams while communicating effectively with technical stakeholders such as Group Digital and IT.

Position

The AI & Automation Officer will report to Business Support and directly support the lead of the AI Leads / Champions network in its operational management and acceleration of AI use cases at RMM. The role is a business-facing AI facilitator: an adoption contact, support for Champions, operational contributor to agents, and coordinator between business and digital teams.

What we offer

• Immersion in the challenges of AI transformation.
• Extensive exposure to private-banking business teams.
• Interaction with experts in innovation and digital transformation.
• The opportunity to contribute to visible, concrete projects.
• A stimulating work environment that supports learning and skills development.

One reason for the long-term success of our business is the importance we place on being principled. It is this belief that drives both the way we work with our clients and the way we hire, manage and develop our people—and we look for the same qualities from them in return. Our teams reflect the diverse needs of our clients, businesses and the markets we operate in around the world. We value, and seek to maintain, an eclectic mix of skills and backgrounds—encouraging everyone to come together to share their perspectives for the good of each other, the business and our clients.