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SVP Capital Solutions – Swiss Banking Platform for the Innovation Economy
You have raised institutional capital, structured vehicles and built GP relationships – but always on someone else’s platform and under someone else’s brand? This is the rare chance to build your own. A fully licensed Swiss bank with its own balance sheet, a private banking business in build-up, access to a broad SME client base and the top-tier relationships of its main shareholder across venture capital, private equity and UHNWI is moving beyond deposit-taking into capital formation for the innovation economy. Founders become clients, venture managers become partners, private and institutional investors provide the capital – one regulated platform, designed from a blank sheet. The ambition is explicit: to build a unicorn. The foundations others need years to assemble are already in place; what is missing is the entrepreneur who turns them into a franchise. The seat reports directly to the CEO, comes with an entrepreneurial equity plan and is created once. Whoever takes it becomes the founding architect of the platform – and writes the playbook others will later follow.
Your benefit in talking to us:
- Salary comparison, current salary to market salary
- Understanding your career options
- Identification of development and promotion potential
- 65% of candidates will be making a career move within the next 12 to 24 months
Why is this position interesting for you?
A founding seat, not a vacancy
- The platform does not exist yet. You define its architecture, its first vehicles and its team – a mandate that is created once and filled once
Build a unicorn with a bank behind you
- Full banking licence and balance sheet from day one, a private banking business in build-up and a broad SME client base – the start-up ambition, without having to build these foundations first
Doors that are already open
- Access to the main shareholder’s top-tier relationships across venture capital, private equity and UHNWI – a head start in deal flow and capital that independent placement agents rarely have
Your network, your platform, your upside
- The GP, founder and LP relationships you have built finally work for a platform you shape – with an entrepreneurial equity plan
Switzerland as your base
- Greater Zurich/Zug as home of the platform, with coverage across Switzerland, the UK and Europe
Positioning of our client
- Fully licensed Swiss bank with its own balance sheet and a private banking business in build-up
- Strategy: move beyond deposit-taking into capital formation and grow assets under management
- Business model: founders as clients, venture managers as partners and clients, private and institutional investors as capital providers
- Access: a broad SME client base and the main shareholder’s top-tier relationships in venture capital, private equity and UHNWI
- Ambition: a scalable capital platform for the innovation economy – built to become a unicorn
Main tasks
- Prio 1: Build GP and investor coverage – own the venture manager relationships and the fund banking base from day one
- Prio 2: Build the founder franchise – convert deal flow into banking relationships (deposits, treasury, FX, founder wealth)
- Design and structure the first investment vehicles: perimeter, terms and governance
- Lead capital formation: family offices, UHNWI and the bank’s own network first, pension funds and institutional LPs next
- Build recurring revenue lines: fund banking, capital call lines, structuring and management fees
- Position the platform as a credible counterparty for founders, venture managers and investment committees across Switzerland, the UK and Europe
- Recruit and lead the team that scales the platform
Requirements profile
- Proven track record of raising institutional capital and closing funds or vehicles – on the strength of your own relationships, not a large institutional brand
- Experience with/in:
- Capital formation with institutional LPs and family offices
- Live relationships with venture and growth managers at partner level
- Vehicle design and fund formation: perimeter, terms, governance
- Banking economics: deposits, net interest income, capital call lines
- Swiss institutional investors and occupational pension regulation (BVV2)
- Entrepreneurial builder who has created a franchise rather than inherited one – credible with founders and investment committees in the same week
- German and English at negotiation level
Role, function and reporting line
- Founding head of the bank’s capital platform, with entrepreneurial responsibility for GP coverage, founder franchise, investment vehicles and capital formation
- Reporting to: CEO
Framework conditions
- Location: Greater Zurich/Zug area
- Entrepreneurial build mandate with a multi-year horizon
- Attractive package commensurate with the requirements, including an entrepreneurial equity plan
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