Fellowship - Talent Acquisition (3-6 months) (m/f/x)

We are looking for Fellows starting in October 2026 for 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. Convince during your Fellowship and earn the opportunity to join ALAIKA full-time after graduation. Stop reading if any of these describe you: • You need someone to fire the starting gun → We only hire people who can prove they are intrinsically driven and execute. • You spot the problem and walk it to your boss → We fall in love with problems. Own them. Solve them. Ship solutions. • Slow is your default → Speed compounds. Be smart and brave enough to select 80/20 in the right way. • "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 parts of the full recruiting cycle - from crafting job profiles and posting ads to supporting screening, structured interviews, and onboarding. You touch every stage. • Active Sourcing. Help build and run sourcing across LinkedIn and beyond. Find candidates who aren't looking. Learn what a real sourcing engine feels like from the inside. • Graduate Recruitment. Help open doors to top universities. 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. • Employer Branding. Support ALAIKA's presence in the market - career events, university outreach, social media. Shape how the world sees us. 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. Tak