Updated September 20, 2024

Founded in 2019, Aiperion LLC is a scientific research, consulting, and technology firm specializing in portfolio construction and investment risk management. Aiperion is an exciting, innovative firm that, using its own intellectual property, helps institutional investors leverage cutting-edge AI to better understand their risks and optimize their portfolios.

The firm anticipates entering an accelerated growth phase both in its consulting and in its technology (fintech) business. This accelerating growth requires additional highly competent personnel.

Aiperion is based in Chicago. Our team is diverse on many dimensions, including professional background, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, and love for mathematics. We actively encourage diversity, being a certified woman- owned business ourselves. We are dedicated to becoming outstanding partners for our clients, constantly evolving our services, our technology, and the way we invest for their benefit.

Job location: Chicago, IL. In-office or hybrid preferred but remote also accepted for an outstanding candidate.

You will be part of an entrepreneurial team executing a plan to intelligently grow the risk consulting and fintech business. Your primary responsibilities will be identifying new business opportunities, managing relationships, and expanding business strategically. You strongly believe in the role of innovation, AI, and technology in finance. You have some understanding of and are willing to become an expert in portfolio construction. You are able to embrace both qualitative and quantitative thinking.

You champion the innovative power of our framework and risk technology to give investors more visibility and more control of their portfolios. Crucially, you are able to take these new, sometimes strikingly different financial concepts and translate them into easy-to-understand, intuitive language.

You will manage the full cycle of business development, influence, and collaborate with key stakeholders and partners. You always look to identify clients’ unsolved problems; you bring these problems to the scientific and tech teams. You are never presenting a single product; rather, you are always selling a problem-solving framework. By working with customers and the product development team, you will redefine the way portfolio management is understood in the investment community.

Your primary focus will be the global institutional investment segment: public and private pensions, foundations, endowments, etc. You might also target (through partnerships) the wealth management segment. You will secure meetings with prospective clients either virtually, at their offices, or at industry events. You will meet prospective clients virtually or in person, with the founder/other staff or on your own. You will maintain marketing materials and an online presence. There is potential for your compensation to be tied to your results and directly aligned with the success of the business.

• Source and qualify business opportunities through both independent lead generation and collaboration with partners
• Responsible for the full sales cycle, and lead the account strategy for the institutional investor market
• Build long-term relationships through continuous exploration and understanding of client needs
• Develop and execute in collaboration with colleagues on the strategic business plan; demonstrate ability to forecast accurately and meet your own strategic goals
• Manage multiple opportunities through the full sales cycle simultaneously
• In collaboration with colleagues, identify new business opportunities for partnerships, new services, and unique projects
• Travel to client offices, conferences, and events as needed

• 3+ years' experience in investment management, financial services, or other industries with significant exposure to financial instruments and concepts, especially risk
• Highly entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm for the role of technology and AI in finance
• Bachelor's or advanced degree. Coursework in finance, advanced mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, or similarly quantitative field, is a requirement.
• Direct experience in consultative sales in investment management, or institutional client-facing roles highly preferred
• Knowledge of the institutional investment market
• A robust analytical and quantitative skill set is a major plus
• Ability to sell, using a consultative approach, an integrated portfolio of services, including technology
• Ability to communicate credibly about investments, risk and technology services, the AI platform and diagnose client needs
• Ability to explain completely new portfolio and risk-related concepts and tools in an intuitive way
• Ability to interact pertinently with executives and senior staff
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
• Ability to work independently, but also within cross-disciplinary teams
• Ability to create and maintain marketing materials

Please send your resume and a cover letter to [email protected]. Explain to us why this opportunity interests you. Applications with thoughtful cover letters will be given priority.