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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

Our client is a Swiss bank building a capital platform that connects founders, venture managers and investors. Interested in further information about the company and the role? Book a 45-minute video call:

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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

Apply & Contact

Marc Geiger
Marc Geiger
Partner
wirz phone +41 44 515 02 60 wirz email marc.geiger@w-gruppe.com
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Stephan Peyer
Stephan Peyer
Partner
wirz phone +41 44 515 02 60 wirz email stephan.peyer@w-gruppe.com
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*Recruitment process

In an initial interview, we will give you a detailed insight into the role, the company, the corporate culture and your development opportunities.

After an initial exchange with the partner (headhunter), you will receive further information about the role and our client's expectations. If you are interested, please send us your documents. Wirz & Partners will draw up a longlist, which will be discussed with the client. From this longlist, 4-6 candidates are selected for the shortlist.

Time to feedback: 2-3 weeks

If you make it onto the shortlist, it's on to the next round. In the interview with Wirz & Partners, we get to know you professionally and personally. You will receive further information about the client, the offering, the services, the team and the KPIs. Based on all the interviews and documents, we prepare a complete dossier about you for the client, including an executive summary. These documents form the basis for the structured interview process with the client. We prepare you for the interview.

Duration until the interview with the client: Up to two weeks.

The first meeting with the customer is about getting to know each other as equals and experiencing the gut feeling, the people and the corporate culture. This interview takes place in person at the customer's premises and lasts an average of one hour.

The second interview is about deepening professional expertise and management topics. In this exchange, you get to know the team, the strategy and the operational goals. 

You will then receive a salary proposal and an overview of the entire offer.

Duration until feedback: 1-2 weeks

Following the final meeting, a de-briefing takes place with you and the customer.

We support you in the contract negotiations and clarify further details. The contract is drawn up and we accompany the on-boarding at the customer's premises.

Duration until feedback: Up to one week

*We describe the standard process, which may vary depending on the customer.

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