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Chief AI Officer
Chief AI Officer
Harvest · Financial Services / WealthTech SaaS · 📍 20ème Arrondissement, Paris, FR
Harvest, France's leading wealth management software firm, is creating a dedicated Chief AI Officer role to lead the strategic integration of AI across its data-rich fintech platform after 35 years of domain expertise.
Reports to
CEO
Company stage
scale-up
Source
adzuna
Key responsibilities
- Define and drive the group-wide AI strategy across wealth and financial advisory software products
- Lead AI integration into data services, automated portfolio construction, and decision-support tools
- Oversee AI governance, ethics, and regulatory compliance in a heavily regulated financial context
- Collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams to embed AI across the full value chain
- Represent AI vision to executive leadership, clients, and external stakeholders
Requirements
- Senior executive experience leading AI or data strategy in a fintech or financial services context
- Deep expertise in machine learning, NLP, or AI applied to financial data
- French language proficiency (role based in Paris, company is French-market focused)
- Track record of translating AI capabilities into commercial product value
Signals
- ⚠ No salary or compensation range disclosed
- ⚠ Job description truncated — full scope and reporting line not confirmed
- ⚠ No mention of existing AI team size or budget, making scope ambiguous
- ✓ Established 35-year market leader with strong data and automation foundation — not starting from zero
- ✓ Group-level mandate signals genuine C-suite authority, not a rebranded director role
- ✓ Wealth management vertical has clear, high-value AI use cases (portfolio automation, regulatory data, client advisory)
- ✓ First-ever CAIO hire suggests greenfield opportunity with real strategic influence