AI Technical Leader & Head of Business Development

AI Technical Leader & Head of Business Development

Job Title:

AI Technical Leader & Head of Business Development

Location:

Geneva, Switzerland (on-site, principal workplace)

Job Type: Full-time, permanent (100%)

Industry: Artificial Intelligence / Fintech / Decentralized Finance

Experience Level: Senior Executive (10+ years)

Start Date:

ASAP [Upon availability or obtention of work authorisation]

Reporting to: CEO

JK Advisory Sàrl ("JKA") is a Geneva-based advisory firm providing legal, regulatory, governance, and strategic consulting services to technology companies operating in the Web3, blockchain and digital assets sectors. Established and headquartered in Geneva, JKA serves a Swiss and international client base that includes blockchain protocol foundations, decentralized finance projects and institutional participants in the digital asset ecosystem.

JKA is currently undertaking a strategic pivot along two complementary axes. First, JKA is expanding its advisory offering into artificial intelligence applied to trading, decentralized finance and institutional digital asset management. Second, JKA seeks to develop a proprietary agentic Web3 trading technology – AI-powered software tools that autonomously execute trading strategies in decentralized on-chain environments – which it intends to license and commercialize to clients alongside its advisory services.

To execute this dual expansion, JKA requires a senior hire who combines deep AI and DeFi technical expertise with proven product‑development and institutional business‑development capabilities.

JKA is seeking a senior leader to fill a dual‑function role combining AI technical leadership with business growth and partnership development, based full‑time at JKA's Geneva office. This is a foundational hire that will define JKA's new AI advisory practice and proprietary product offering. This role requires constant interaction and collaboration with the CEO on projects, commercial strategies, hiring plans to bolster the expansion of the Geneva office, as well as allocating and managing budgets.

• AI Technical Leadership:
  Advisory Services & Proprietary Product Development
  • Advisory services – Design and build JKA's new AI advisory vertical, defining service offerings at the intersection of artificial intelligence, algorithmic trading and decentralized finance.
  • Advise clients on the technical and operational aspects of deploying AI co‑pilots and automated trading agents in on‑chain environments, including security hardening, smart contract architecture and risk management.
  • Evaluate and advise on AI infrastructure choices (FPGA/GPU acceleration, cloud vs. on‑premise inference) for clients’ trading and risk management systems.
  • Proprietary product development – Architect, develop, and lead the build‑out of JKA's proprietary agentic Web3 trading technology (incl. product roadmap, technical specifications from proof‑of‑concept through to a production‑ready, licensable product).
  • Oversee the technical quality, security, and auditability of the proprietary trading technology, including smart contract architecture, model validation, and testing.
• Business Growth & Institutional Partnerships
  • Originate, develop and manage consulting, advisory and licensing mandates with a specific focus on Geneva/Swiss markets for institutions.
  • Serve as JKA's primary senior point of contact for clients on AI and DeFi matters.
  • Conduct regular in‑person meetings, presentations/workshops and leverage and develop existing network of institutional relationships in Switzerland and abroad.
  • Forge strategic partnerships with institutions, innovation hubs and academic institutions to strengthen JKA's local positioning in the AI × finance ecosystem in Switzerland and abroad.
• Geneva Team Building & Knowledge Transfer
  • Recruit, onboard and manage additional local‑based team members to scale both the AI advisory practice and the product development effort, including technical consultants, AI/ML engineers and business development professionals.
  • Mentor, train and transfer technical knowledge to junior team members on AI × DeFi advisory delivery, product…