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Engaged Headhunters/Industries/Fintech
Industries · Fintech

Fintech.

Payments, lending, banking-as-a-service, trading, crypto, and embedded finance. Recruiters fluent in both the regulatory posture and the product-led growth motion.

Segment
Payments · lending · BaaS · crypto · embedded
Roles
CCO · CTO · VP Risk · CGO
Engagement
Engaged or contingent
Geography
Nationwide · US
The thesis

Fintech leadership lives between regulators and growth.

Senior fintech leaders operate between two pressures most other tech leaders never face: regulators on one side, product-led growth on the other. The Chief Compliance Officer who can keep the BSA team and the growth team aligned is rare. The CTO who knows what 'production-grade payments' actually means is rare. The search has to find them, not vet what an algorithm surfaced.

Engaged search funds the dedicated time of a recruiter who has placed leadership across payments, lending, BaaS, and crypto. The recruiter knows the regulatory landscape and the technical operating model.

We work payments operators, lending and credit platforms, BaaS providers, broker-dealer and trading operations, crypto and digital-asset operators, and embedded-finance product companies.

Roles we cover

Where the search lives.

Senior leadership and niche-headhunter roles. The recruiter assigned to your search has spent a decade in this segment.

COMPLIANCE & RISK
  • Chief Compliance Officers
  • BSA Officers
  • VP Risk
  • Heads of Financial Crime
ENGINEERING & PRODUCT
  • CTOs
  • VP Engineering
  • Chief Product Officers
  • VP Product
COMMERCIAL & GROWTH
  • Chief Growth Officers
  • VP Sales
  • VP Marketing
  • Heads of Partnerships
FINANCE & OPERATIONS
  • CFOs
  • VP Finance
  • VP Operations
  • Heads of Treasury
FAQ

Fintech,
specifically.

The questions hiring operators send in the first call.

What kinds of fintech roles do you recruit for?
Compliance and risk (CCO, BSA Officer, VP Risk, Heads of Financial Crime), engineering and product (CTO, VP Eng, CPO, VP Product), commercial (CGO, VP Sales, VP Marketing), and finance/operations (CFO, VP Finance, Heads of Treasury). We work payments, lending, BaaS, broker-dealer, crypto, and embedded-finance operators.
Do you cover crypto and digital-asset roles?
Yes. Crypto operators (exchanges, custodians, infrastructure, DeFi-adjacent) hire the same shape of leadership as traditional fintech, with additional regulatory and licensing context. The recruiter assigned has experience matched to the segment.
Are fintech searches typically engaged or contingent?
Senior leadership searches are usually engaged, especially when the role is regulated (CCO, BSA Officer) or technical (CTO, VP Eng). Director-level and below run engaged or contingent depending on urgency.
Do you place candidates who must clear FINRA, NMLS, or money-transmitter licensing requirements?
Yes. The recruiter assigned has experience placing licensed candidates and scoping for the licensing posture the search requires.
Do you cover the entire United States?
Yes. We run nationwide fintech searches; most senior fintech roles are remote or hybrid, with some New York-based exceptions.
So now what?

Three paths from here.

  1. You're hiring a Chief Compliance Officer or Chief Risk Officer.

    Engaged search fits, the candidate pool is regulator-credentialed (former state regulator, OCC, FINRA staff) and tightly networked. Confidentiality matters because most candidates are still in regulator or industry seats; the exclusive engaged structure runs with code-name discipline from day one. Read engaged search →

  2. You're scoping a senior commercial leader for a regulated product.

    Engaged search fits commercial roles. The candidate has to clear both the GTM motion and the regulator-conversation muscle. Read the CRO and CISO guides for the closest scoping frameworks. Start the scoping call →

  3. You're benchmarking comp under pending charter or regulatory expansion.

    Fintech comp varies materially by regulatory regime and stage. Send us the company's charter posture and the role; we come back with a peer-comp read. Email the read request →

●Start a fintech search

Tell us the regulator, the product, the role.

We come back inside one business day with a scoping call, a fee quote, and a market read on candidate availability.

INDUSTRY · FINTECH