We find the technical leaders building neo finance.
Retained C-suite search for senior technical leaders in neo finance.
Roles we place
Senior technical leadership for companies building new financial infrastructure.
CTO
Architects core financial infrastructure — ledgers, settlement systems, real-time processing. Needs to think in both distributed systems and regulatory constraints.
Chief AI Officer
AI is reshaping risk scoring, fraud detection, and personalization. The fastest-growing C-suite role in fintech — and the hardest to evaluate without domain depth.
VP Engineering
Scales the engineering org from 20 to 200. In this market, the best candidates are off-market in days, not weeks.
CISO
Financial infrastructure is a prime cyberattack target. Regulatory oversight has tightened. The right CISO now commands engineering-level compensation.
Head of Application Security
Secures the APIs, payment flows, and customer-facing systems that regulators and attackers scrutinize most. The bridge between engineering velocity and security rigor.
Chief Data Officer
Transaction flows, risk models, regulatory reporting. CDOs who understand both data engineering and financial regulation are exceptionally rare.
Chief Design Officer
Design is the product in consumer finance. CDOs who can lead design systems, shape user trust through interface clarity, and bridge product and engineering are vanishingly rare.
Chief Architect
Designs the technical backbone — APIs, microservices, cloud infrastructure — for companies building banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, or new market infrastructure.
Executive Assistant to the C-Suite
BONUSThe right EA makes a C-suite leader twice as effective. We place executive assistants who understand the pace, complexity, and confidentiality demands of technical leadership in neo finance — not generic admin support.
Generalist recruiters check keywords.
We check architectural thinking.
A generalist recruiter can verify that someone lists "distributed systems" on their CV. They can't evaluate whether that person has actually built real-time settlement infrastructure — the kind where downtime means losing other people's money.
We can. Our research collective studies neo finance infrastructure every day. The founders reading our content are the hiring managers. The engineers in our network are the candidates. We don't start from a cold LinkedIn search — we start from a warm list of people we already know.
17 ventures across payments, lending, trading, and financial infrastructure. No 15-resume spray. No buzzword candidates. 3–5 exceptional leaders who've actually built what you're building.
How it works
Retained search. 6-month replacement guarantee.
Define the role
Your requirements, your culture, what the first 90 days look like. We listen before we search.
We search our network
Warm outreach to candidates we already know. Each gets a structured technical assessment built for financial infrastructure — not a generic whiteboard exercise.
You meet exceptional candidates
3–5 leaders with detailed technical evaluation reports. We present people, not resumes.
The right technical leader — found by people who understand what they'll build.
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