Principal Consultant - Data & AI

ALAIKA Advisory Germany GmbH; München; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office Munich

Office Barcelona

Job summary

ALAIKA Advisory Germany GmbH in Munich is building a new kind of Financial Services firm. We seek consultants who combine strategic depth with data and AI expertise and a drive to build lasting client relationships.

You will advise Fortune 500 financial services clients, own key accounts, and lead large initiatives across Strategy, Data & AI, and Cyber. The role demands leadership, a growth mindset, and a track record of delivering measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Outstanding degree in an analytical field from a top-tier university, or a track record that speaks for itself.
• 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.
• An established network across the data, AI, and financial services community is expected at this level.

Responsibilities

• Advise leading financial services on strategy, data, AI, and cyber.
• Own significant accounts and drive revenue inside them.
• Lead project teams and large initiatives; set the standard for others.
• Originate new mandates inside existing accounts and develop business.
• Build deep networks and engage C-level discussions in your domain.

Skills

Strategy consulting

Data & AI

Leadership

Business development

Education

Analytical degree

Tools

AI platforms

Job description

Advise. Invest. Build. Meet ALAIKA — a new kind of Financial Services firm — globally scaling, headquarteredinMunich.The workis hard. The bar is high. Partnerin 3-4years possible , for the ones who can keep up and actually build abusiness themselveson our platform.

Stop reading if any of these describe you:

• Specialisation. You are a generalist with shallowexpertiseand a thin network → AI will eat your lunch. We bet on depth.
• Ownership. You would rather oversee thanown → 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 arein the midst ofbuilding 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.

Foundedin 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.

• 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-domainexpertiseas 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, raisetheir game. Multiply the output of everyone around you — not just your own.
• Sell. Open new doors inside existing accounts. Originate new mandates. At ALAIKA, business development is not apartner privilege — it is always an expectation.
• Connect. Walkin withdeep 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-trackwithinreach.
• Build. We are scaling, with real building left to do — IP, processes, go-to-market, strategy. You are a strategic partner in shaping what ALAIKA becomes . Thatisnot aslogan—itisyourTuesday.

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 foundation. Thinkinstructures, not gut feel.
• Street-smart. Read the room fast.Prioritiseruthlessly. Grasp commercial reality.
• People-smart. Communicate with precision — clear, direct, persuasive. Buildtrustacrossfunctionsandseniority.
• Athlete performance mindset. High aspirations. Grit. Learn faster than the environment changes.
• Entrepreneurial guts. Self-confident achiever.Actfirst,apologiselater — speed is everything .You move.

What you bring

• Background. Outstanding degree in an analytical field from a top-tier university, ora track recordthat speaks for itself.
• Experience. Minimum 5 years in a high-pressure, results-driven environment — top strategy consultancy withastrongdata and AI practice, or fast-growing AI-native technology company. Deep hands-on experience delivering data and AI projects isrequired. An established network across the data, AI, and financial services community is expected at this level.
• Industry Focus. You have worked inside or deeply alongside financial services institutions.Sub-sectorexpertiseininsurancepreferred, butwewould considerexperience in banking, asset management, or paymentsas well.
• Technical Depth. Fluency in modern data and AI stacks — machine learning, generative AI, cloud platforms, production deployment. You haveadvised andshipped real systems, not just slides.
• Leadership. You have led teams that delivered. We hire managers who buildbusinesses, 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.Additionallanguages are a plus.

Why join ALAIKA

• Partner track from day one. Three years from principal to partner possible.
• 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 executives running today’s giants and the founders+ investorsbuildingtomorrow’s.
• Offices. Munich and Barcelona. More coming.

Plus: the essentials done right — EGYMWellpass, bike leasing, a kitchen stocked with healthy food and team events worth showing up for: Oktoberfest, team dinners, and more.

Advise the leaders. Build what comes next. Invest in the future of Financial Services.

Equal Opportunities for all (f/m/d)

ALAIKA is an equal-opportunity employer. We hire on merit and welcome applications from people of all genders, backgrounds, ages, and identities.Our team spirit celebrates diversity. We want you to be your true “you” and offer everyone an open culture and safe space