[AISWorld] Assistant Professor position in AI for Management (SKEMA Business School, Paris)

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR MANAGEMENT

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Job characteristics :
Grade : Assistant professor
Type of contract : Permanent contract, full time contract
Taking office : From September 2025
Localisation : SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL Grand Paris
 
SKEMA Business School (https://www.skema.edu/) and the SKEMA Center for Artificial Intelligence invite applications for a position at Assistant Professor rank, in Artificial Intelligence for Management, to begin August 2025. The successful candidate will develop and/or lead academic research projects to publish in the field's highest-quality journals.
The hired candidate will be part of the SKEMA Center for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) which is a Research Center dedicated to exploring how AI Systems interact and collaborate with people to enhance human abilities and empower both individuals and society creating sustainable value at four different levels:
- Business value: how AI becomes part of the products themselves, improves performance across the value chain, or enables ecosystems and collaboration with new markets.
- Ethical value: how to foster explicability and responsible AI to guarantee social fairness in respect of human freedoms and dignity.
- Societal value: how AI contributes to environmental sustainability, encourages a new social contract based on accountability.
- Algorithmic value: developing AI techniques and algorithms with increasingly superior performance while attending to the explainability of such techniques to assure that the other kinds of value can be enabled.

Through this Research Centre, we want to analyze the impact of Artificial Intelligence on a broad range of business and management subjects (ranging from finance, marketing, strategy, to innovation and entrepreneurship) and cover a multitude of different sectors (such as education, energy, health care, public administration, banks, insurance, retail, tourism, and luxury) offering guidance to organizations on how to best use AI for sustainable value creation.
The position is permanent with a full-time contract. Salary and conditions are competitive, in line with international standards. SKEMA Business School offers publication bonuses for peer-reviewed publications. The language of work and teaching is English. Knowledge of French is not required and is not a criterion for selection. SKEMA Business School offers support in learning French.


Qualifications must include:
- Hold or about to complete a Ph.D. in Management or a related field (with orientation in Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics, Robotics) or a related area.
- Have a strong research orientation and track record, as demonstrated by a publication track record in highly regarded management journals on the CABS-FNEGE-FT50 lists or show potential.
- Ability to work as part of a team in a collegial environment.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Excellence in quantitative methods.
- Strong interest in investing in the research focus on Artificial Intelligence in Management.
- Commitment to service and/or outreach activities.

 
Expectations :
- Publish peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals.
- Teach courses in the area of management, with a focus in strategy, organizational behavior, and human resources management.
- Supervise master students.
- Show academic citizenship, commit to the life of the institution, and contribute to the projects related to the school's strategy.

 
Applications should include:
- A letter of application stating why you are interested in SKEMA Business School
- Curriculum Vitae
- Statement of research interests and direction
- Statement of teaching interests and philosophy (please list courses you have taught or would prefer to teach)
- Evidence of research activity (1-2 writing samples or reference to research available online; published articles or working papers)
- Evidence of teaching performance (include teaching evaluations if available)
- Three letters of reference
- Any additional document that the applicant may consider as relevant

The application should be submitted in English and sent by email to  recruitmentfaculty2025 at skema.edu with the title: "Application position in Artificial Intelligence for Business- France".
Applications will be reviewed from September until December 31, 2024, or until the position is filled. Any questions should be sent to  recruitmentfaculty2025 at skema.edu
Candidates interested in the position can apply for a preliminary interview at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 9-13, in Chicago.
We welcome requests for an interview by July 20th.
For the preliminary interview package, please send (i) your CV, (ii) a cover letter, and (iii) a job market paper to: mailto:margherita.pagani at skema.edu with subject: "Interview at AOM2024". Clarification questions can also be directed to Prof. dr. Margherita Pagani.
Please note that SKEMA is an equal opportunity employer, which values all types of diversity, and encourages applications of candidates from all backgrounds.
  

ABOUT SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL
With 10,000 students of 130 nationalities and 57,000 alumni in 145 countries, SKEMA Business School is a global school that trains and educates the talents that 21st-century business requires through its research, its 70 teaching programs, and its international multi-site structure. The school currently has campuses in France (Lille, Sophia Antipolis, Paris), China (Suzhou and Nanjing), the United States (Raleigh), Brazil (Belo Horizonte), and South Africa (Stellenbosch). The school is also developing an Innovation Center in AI (Canada), one of the world's major AI hubs. SKEMA's Faculty comprises more than 190 Professors, organized by Academy - Globalization, Innovation, Transformation, and Digitalization - and Research Centers. SKEMA is multi-accredited - EQUIS, AACSB, EFMD EMBA Accredited. Its programs are recognized in France (Visa, 'Licence Degree', Master Degree, RNCP, CGE label), as well as in the United States (Licensing), Brazil (Certificação), and China (Ministry of Education). Member od the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (CGE). Member of the Conférence des Directeurs d'Ecoles Françaises de Management (CDEFM).
  
For further information: https://www.skema.edu/    
 

ABOUT RESEARCH
The candidate will be a member of the SKEMA Centre for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI). The research center comprises about 20 faculty members and 4 PhD students from the internal PhD program management. The research center adopts an interdisciplinary perspective based on the collaboration between social scientists, AI researchers, and engineers to develop the know-how to explore business opportunities driven by AI.
We organize regular research seminars and host international workshops. Our members have presented their work at academic and professional conferences and international institutions. Their work has led to publications in top-ranked journals
More information at https://www.skema.edu/faculty-and-research/scai/presentation-scai-faculty-research/presentation

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