Recruiter (m/f/x)

Full-time | Start: as soon as possible

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. Join early, own the talent engine.

Stop reading if any of these describe you:

• 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.

• 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, 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

• End-to-End Recruiting. Own the full recruiting cycle for your roles: you shape job profiles with hiring managers, run the pipeline, conduct structured interviews, manage offers making sure that we can close the deal. You are accountable for the hire, not just the process.

• Active Sourcing Engine. Run and own ALAIKA’s sourcing machine across LinkedIn, networks, referrals and beyond. Find the candidates who aren’t looking, especially experienced consultants within Financial Services as well as tech experts. You are the face of ALAIKA and know how to attract great talent.

• Hiring Manager Partnership. Advise founders and partners as a trusted sparring partner on role design, market insights, compensation benchmarks and selection decisions.

• Graduate Recruitment. Own our university relationships and the Fellowship pipeline, and turn top emerging talent into future ALAIKA leaders.

• Recruiting Operations & Data. Own and continuously improve our processes, ATS and tooling. You love to track KPIs such as: time-to-hire, conversion rates, source quality, and use them to make decisions.

• Employer Branding. Build and shape, together with the Head of Talent, how the market sees ALAIKA through career events, university outreach, social media and candidate experience. You are one of the first faces candidates see, so 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".

• 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. Self-confident achiever. Act first, apologise later - speed is everything. Take full ownership of work normally reserved for far more senior profiles.

What you bring

• Education. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Psychology, Business Administration, HR or a related field.

• Proven Track Record. 2+ years of hands-on recruiting experience, ideally in strategy consulting, executive search, financial services, a scale-up or a recruiting agency. You have owned full-cycle hires and can show results.

• Sourcing Excellence. Mastery of LinkedIn Recruiter and modern sourcing techniques. You know how to approach and win passive, senior candidates.

• Recruiting Is Selling. Prove you could sell sand in a desert.

• Analytical Skills. Data-driven by default. You use metrics to optimize, not just to report.

• Language Proficiency. Fluent in English. German and additional languages are a plus.

Why join ALAIKA

• Your launchpad. Become one of the first recruiters in the team and shape the future of ALAIKA and grow with it.

• Stellar Network. Shoulder-to-shoulder with financial services executives running today’s giants and the founders + investors building tomorrow’s.

• Offices. Munich and Barcelona. More coming.

Plus: the essentials done right - EGYM Wellpass , 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.

Apply with CV, transcripts, and references. Let’s see if you are the one. Send us the best outreach message you’ve ever written.

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