Principal Consultant - Data & AI (f/m/d)

• 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

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Posted Nov 01, 2026

Posted Nov 01, 2026

Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation