Partner - Head of Data & AI (m/f/d)

Advise. Invest. Build. Meet ALAIKA — the new kind of Financial Services firm

— globally scaling,

headquartered

in

Munich.

This is a partner seat: you

don't

just

join

ALAIKA,

you co-build it. Meaningful equity, real ownership, a practice you shape from day one.

About ALAIKA

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, with a proven track record in building, scaling, 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

Lead.

Run the Data & AI practice as a whole — strategy, structure, hiring, IP, and P&L. Build the leadership team and develop the next generation of partners. Set the bar for what Data & AI advisory looks like in Financial Services.

Build.

You are not joining a practice; you are building one.

Shape what ALAIKA’s Data & AI franchise becomes — and co-build the firm around it.

That

is

not a

slogan

—

it

is

your

Tuesday.

Sell.

Originate at the highest level. Personally

close

ALAIKA’s biggest Data & AI mandates. Set the sales strategy — the book you build is the book the practice grows on.

Connect.

Industry-shaping relationships. C-suite at the leading Financial Services firms. Your network walks in with you, extends with the role, and becomes the platform for everything the practice does next.

Represent.

Be the public face of ALAIKA’s Data & AI practice — industry speaking, publishing, public IP. The market should know your name, and through you, ours.

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'll

set

the bar — and lead a team that meets it. Intrinsically driven people, who do "what it takes." Your job is to shape them, sharpen them, and prove that ALAIKA is where the best

go

next.

Book-smart.

Strong academic foundation. Think

in

structures, 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.

You have built something, owned something, or bet on yourself at some point — and it shows in how you

operate. P&L is not an abstraction. Ambiguity is not a problem.

You

move.

What

you

bring

Track Record.

A track record

of building — a Data & AI practice, a Data & AI-native company, or a senior data and AI function at a majorstrategic consultancy

or

Financial Services firm.

Senior Network.

Established relationships across data, AI, and Financial Services — C-suite, technical leadership, regulators, and the broader ecosystem.

Your

network

walks

in

with

you.

Sales Track Record.

Proven ability to originate and close mandates at €3m+ scale.

You have built a book before.

Market

Authority.

Deep domain credibility — named deployments, published thinking,

conference

and keynote presence. The market should know who you are before we

introduce

you.

People Leader.

You have hired, developed, and graduated, as well as made

the hard

calls on people.

You

understand that

it is your task to

build the best

sports

team

—

not a family.

Languages.

Fluent in English and German.

Additional

languages are a plus.

Why

join

ALAIKA

Equity & ownership.

A partner seat with meaningful equity. You own a piece of what you build — and you gain access to the full ALAIKA ecosystem:

Advisory, Capital, Building, and the network behind it. Not just a seat at the table. A platform to build from.

Compensation

.

Above market with very entrepreneurial-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 services executi