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Outstanding degree in an analytical field from a top-tier university, or a track record that speaks for itself. * Experience. Minimum 5 years in a high-pressure, results-driven environment - top strategy consultancy with a strong data and AI practice, or fast-growing AI-native technology company. Deep hands-on experience delivering data and AI projects is required. An established network across the data, AI, and financial services community is expected at this level. * Industry Focus. You have worked inside deeply alongside financial * institutions. Sub-sector expertise in insurance preferred, but we would consider experience in banking, asset management, or payments as well. * Technical Depth. Fluency in modern data and AI stacks - machine learning, generative AI, cloud platforms, production deployment. You have advised and shipped real systems, not just slides. * Leadership. You have led teams that delivered. We hire managers who build businesses, not just project plans. * Analytical edge. Data-driven by default. Leverage data to drive decisions, not just decorate slides. * Languages. Fluent in English and German. Additional languages are a plus. ## Description Advise. Invest. Build. Meet ALAIKA - a new kind of Financial Services firm - globally scaling, headquartered in Munich. The work is hard. The bar is high. Partner in 3-4 years possible, for the ones who can keep up and actually build a business themselves on our platform. Stop reading if any of these describe you: * Specialisation. You are a generalist with shallow expertise and a thin network * AI will eat your lunch. We bet on depth. * Ownership. You would rather oversee than own * We fall in love with problems. Own them. Solve them. Ship solutions. * Speed. Slow is your default * Speed compounds. Be smart and brave enough to select 80/20 in the right way. * Mindset. "Not possible" is part of your vocabulary * We hire people who always find a way. Still there? Then ALAIKA might be for you. At ALAIKA, our vision is to build the future of Financial Services with three brands under one roof - Advisory (Strategy Consulting), Capital (Private Equity), Building (Company Builder). Right now, we are in the midst of building our trojan horse ALAIKA Advisory. The ambition: building the leading Financial-Services-specific entrepreneurial holding - Fortune 500 access, PE discipline, Silicon Valley technology-depth and thinking. Three networks that compound and multiply. * One industry. Financial Services. Nothing else. * One focus. The intersection of business and technology - across Strategic Transformations, AI & Data Intelligence, and Cybersecurity. * One goal. Being the go-to partner for the world's leading Fortune 500 financial services companies - and the ones we might help build into that. Founded in October 2022 by Johanna von Geyr (build-up and led Financial Services Practice for a NASDAQ-listed strategy consultancy) and Harald Braunstein (serial entrepreneur with exits incl. IPO), we bring together deep functional domain expertise and networks in global Financial Services * own. * Sell. Open new doors inside existing accounts. Originate new mandates. At ALAIKA, business development is not a partner privilege - it is always an expectation. * Connect. Walk in with deep networks. Extend them. Lead C-level discussions in your area of responsibility. Be recognized as a market leader in your domain. Build trust deep enough that clients call you first. * Grow. Sharpen the rare profile the market is short on - analytical mastermind, data & AI expert, entrepreneurial dealmaker. Partner-track within reach. * Build. We are scaling, with real building left to do - IP, processes, go-to-market, with a proven track record in building, , and investing in leading software product companies. Curious what ALAIKA is all about? Explore our website and introduction deck. Join the movement - apply now. The role and what you will work on * Advise. Take on the most pressing strategic and technology challenges of the world's leading financial services companies - across Strategy, Data & AI, and Cyber, with deep data analysis and AI-domain expertise as your anchor. In the room with decision-makers as the expert your clients trust on the questions that matter most. * Own. Take full ownership of significant accounts and the relationships and revenue inside them. The work, the team, the clients, the numbers. You do not own pieces; you own outcomes. * Lead. Run project teams and large key initiatives. Set the standard for consultants, senior consultants, and managers - challenge them, develop them, raise their game. Multiply the output of everyone around you - not just your Think in * . You are a strategic partner in shaping what ALAIKA becomes. That is not a slogan - it is your Tuesday. When you are a fit "Show me an athlete who did well academically. An athlete because they know what it takes to win and they have had to experience loss." - Kenneth C. Griffin, Founder of Citadel You will work alongside intrinsically driven people chasing an uncapped career - people who do "what it takes". You fear "being one more number stuck in middle management". Your goal is to make it to the top: at ALAIKA itself, at a leading investment or financial services firm, or in a company you build yourself - ALAIKA can help with that too. * Book-smart. Strong academic foundationstructures, not gut feel. * Street-smart. Read the room fast. Prioritise ruthlessly. Grasp commercial reality. * People-smart. Communicate with precision - clear, direct, persuasive. Build trust across functions and seniority. * Athlete performance mindset. High aspirations. Grit. Learn faster than the environment changes. * Entrepreneurial guts. Self-confident achiever. Act first, apologise later - speed is everything. You move. What you bring * Background. Outstanding degree in an analytical field from a top-tier university, or a track record that speaks for itself. * Experience. Minimum 5 years in a high-pressure, results-driven environment - top strategy consultancy with a strong data and AI practice, or fast-growing AI-native technology company. Deep hands-on experience delivering data and AI projects is required. An established network across the data, AI, and financial services community is expected at this level. * Industry Focus. You have worked inside deeply alongside financial * institutions. Sub-sector expertise in insurance preferred, but we would consider experience in banking, asset management, or payments as well. * Technical Depth. Fluency in modern data and AI stacks - machine learning, generative AI, cloud platforms, production deployment. You have advised and shipped real systems, not just slides. * Leadership. You have led teams that delivered. We hire managers who build businesses, not just project plans. * Analytical edge. Data-driven by default. Leverage data to drive decisions, not just decorate slides. * Languages. Fluent in English and German. Additional languages are a plus. Why join ALAIKA * Partner track from day one. * driven bonus structures. "My biggest economic misunderstanding was that people got rich from high salary, but almost no one on Forbes got there through salary but only with equity." - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI * Stellar Network. Shoulder-to-shoulder with financial Contact * Three years from principal to partner possible. * Compensation. Above market with very entrepreneurial