We are looking for Fellows starting in November 2026 for 3 to 6 months.

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. We need hunters. Convince during your Fellowship and earn the opportunity to join ALAIKA full-time after graduation.

Stop reading if any of these describe you

Hunting. You would rather wait for applications than go find people → We hunt for candidates who aren’t looking.
Drive. You need someone to fire the starting gun → We only hire people who can prove they are intrinsically driven and execute.
Ownership. You spot the problem and walk it to your boss → We fall in love with problems. Own them. Solve them. Ship solutions.
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), and 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 (built up and led the Financial Services Practice of a NASDAQ-listed strategy consultancy) and Harald Braunstein (serial entrepreneur with exits, incl. an 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

Active Sourcing. Your main job: find the candidates who aren’t looking. Learn Boolean search, talent mapping, and outreach from the inside, and hit weekly targets.
AI sourcing with JARVIS. Hunt with our in-house AI sourcing platform, test its searches, and help make it better.
Outreach that converts. Write messages that get replies, run first calls, and keep candidates warm through the process.
End-to-end exposure. Join screens and structured interviews and see how a hire is closed.
Graduate Recruitment. Open doors at top universities, student clubs, and sports teams. Build relationships with emerging talent.
ALAIKA Ambassador. You are one of the first faces candidates see. Represent our values, energy, and ambition. Make it count.

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. Think in structures, not gut feel.
Street-smart. Read the room fast. Prioritize 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. You train, you compete, you hate losing.
Entrepreneurial guts. Self-confident achiever. Act first, apologize later; speed is everything. Take full ownership of work normally reserved for far more senior profiles.