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Fintech Recruiters and Executive Search

Your Fintech Recruitment Specialists

Exponential growth, ever-increasing value, and an explosion of opportunity: welcome to the fintech industry. As cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology find themselves on the tip of everyone’s tongue, our fintech recruiters are ready to help you seize the moment with exceptional finance professionals.

Demand Is Growing for Fintech Talent

Financial firms today have access to an unprededented amount of data, and many firm leaders don't have the knowledge to develop an effective data management strategy on their own. The right fintech can help insurance and banking leadership forecast and enhance investments, but to reap those benefits they need people who can design these services, manage the information, and keep that data secure. Finding workers to fill those positions is increasingly challenging in today's world of high employee expectations and staffing shortages.

The Redfish Advantage

Redfish is a recruitment agency that understands the unique needs and challenges of the financial tech sector. For employers, our in-depth recruitment process lets us serve as consultants to improve your entire hiring approach. For applicants, we focus on building relationships, identifying your career goals and workplace needs to find your ideal placement. From software startups to multinational investment banks, Redfish headhunters help companies fill fintech jobs to build brilliant teams.

Recruit with Redfish

Redfish Technology lives at the intersection of creativity, resourcefulness, and innovation. Founded in 1996, our unique expertise in fintech recruiting has helped grow businesses from coast to coast, with deep roots in the country’s biggest tech hubs. Are you ready to take your company to the next level?

Our successful fintech searches keep our clients happy

Sr. Enterprise Account Executive

A 50 person Data Security client needed to build out its first Enterprise Sales team. They asked us to target the Fintech space and find Enterprise Account Execs who had sold a software solution to C Suite Executives. Over the next 3 months, we submitted 15 screened candidates and filled the 4 reqs accross the United States.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

The Founder of a Bain Capital/Lightspeed Ventures startup in San Francisco needed a Lead Infrastructure engineer who combined the skills of Dev/Ops, Functional Programming, CI/CD AND Machine Learning.

They were series A and growing aggressively, so they needed someone who could do the technical work as well as lead a team underneath them. We found them a perfect M.I.T fit who has been there almost 3 yrs and helped double the size of the company!

Sr Backend Engineer

A 100 person fintech company asked for our help in finding a Sr. Backend Engineer along with a Full Stack Engineer with Node.JS experience. We quickly realized finding Sr. Engineers with Node.JS experience wasn't an easy search. We successfully filled the roles within 10 weeks and both engineers are still with the company, 2+ years later.

Sr Dev/Ops Engineer

A Unicorn Company in the Fintech space hired us to find a DevOps person as they were adding new states every month. The tech screen was especially difficult because less than 20% of potential candidates passed the screen. This person has since been promoted and is still with the company, almost 3 years later.

Join the many companies that have recruited fintech roles with Redfish Technology

We can help you hire for a variety of fintech roles

Back End Developer
Deep Learning Engineer
DevOps OR Dev/Ops
Front End Developer
Full Stack Developer/Engineer
Head of Software/Development/Engineering
Machine Learning Engineer/Developer
Presales engineer
Quality Assurance Engineer (QA, SQA)
Software Engineer (Sr, Lead)
Solutions Architect/Engineer
UX Engineer/Developer
VP of Marketing

See what our clients say about our fintech successes

Frequently asked questions about fintech recruiting

Our engaged search process normally takes four weeks between our initial discovery call with the client and when an offer is extended. Clients get a single point of contact in our team, as well as a minimum of 20 dedicated hours each week.

The process starts with a deep dive discovery with the hiring team. This conversation focuses on two aspects: the requirements of the role and the needs and selling points of the company. Once we’ve gathered this information from the client, we use a curated four-touch candidate outreach campaign and advanced AI software to source candidates from our network. By the end of the first week, we typically have at least 5 resumes to send to clients, who get the first right of refusal on any resume sourced for their position.

Once we’ve defined the traits of the ideal candidate in our discovery call with the client, we do internal planning before going to our network. This involves separating the qualifications into “must haves” and “nice to haves”, identifying competitors that employ similar fintech professionals, and creating a targeted four-step multi-touch campaign. We then deploy this campaign across our database and 30,000+ company followers network, leveraging our contacts as well as AI software and both paid and unpaid resources to generate qualified leads. Along the way, we provide data analysis to the client that they can use to evaluate and shape the recruiting strategy and improve the efficacy of our messaging.

We first create a list of questions that target certain skills or traits based on our discovery call with the client. As candidates are interviewed, we recalibrate with the client as necessary to make sure those questions are attracting the right candidates for their needs.

We measure our fintech hire quality by considering factors like how many submitted candidates are interviewed, how long it took to make a placement, how long the candidate remains in the role, and feedback from clients.

We have a candidate retention rate of 86% across the industries and sectors we work with.

On average, it takes 4 weeks to fill a fintech role.

We utilize metrics including time to hire, resumes submitted to interviews, and interview-to-hire ratio.

Working with a recruiter allows you to hire better fintech talent more quickly, as well as saving companies the time, money, and resources they would have invested in the search. Having multiple recruiters working on a search also allows the process to be scaled, giving fintech recruiters the capability to fill multiple roles with high-quality candidates concurrently.

The main difference comes down to the scope of the search. In a fintech executive search, the process is more specific and targeted. More stringent criteria can mean that the search takes a bit longer, but with the result of a better long-term hire who perfectly meets the client’s needs. The payment terms are also different. With executive search, the client pays in installments throughout the process, rather than after the search is completed. Executive search firms may also charge per diems and expenses.

The network of fintech professionals we’ve built over 30 years in the business is our biggest differentiator. Relationships are the core of this business and we always start with our network. We also have 30,000+ followers of our company that we network through.

We give them a human-focused interaction rather than a transactional one. Our goal is to build long-term relationships, and both our clients and our candidates appreciate this personal touch.

Working with a recruiter enables you to hire the best fintech professional for the role, not just the best person in your network. The recruiting landscape has changed dramatically, and our use of AI technology, targeted messaging, and other paid and unpaid resources allows us to navigate the talent market more efficiently and at a deeper level than hiring teams can using in-house resources.

Yes, our engaged search is backed by a 60-day refund or replacement guarantee.

We start by understanding the client’s story, culture and needs through our in-depth discovery process. Next, we use this information in our screening process, and convey it to the candidates we’ve identified as a potential fit based on their skills and experience. We can also perform reference and background checks on request.

Absolutely! We want our clients and candidates to succeed, and support them throughout the hiring process. For companies, this includes helping with their job description, competitor analysis, salary ranges, and improving their interview process, as well as services like contracting, contract-to-hire, and payroll. For candidates, we help them perfect their resume and application materials and offer coaching through the interview process.

Delicately. We know the value a diverse team brings to a business and understand the crucial role recruiters play in ensuring the hiring process is free from bias. This starts by identifying areas where bias could be a factor and taking steps to ensure candidates are being fairly assessed and compared. We also observe how our clients are mitigating and preventing issues and adopt the approaches that are effective, with the goal of continuously improving the transparency, fairness, and inclusiveness of our talent sourcing and placement.

welcome feedback from clients and candidates, and feel that full disclosure and honest, transparent communication is helpful for both sides. We also serve as a conduit for feedback between clients and candidates. If an issue is sensitive, we’ll clear it with the client or candidate before starting the conversation.

Our fee is 25% of the base first-year salary of the new hire.

No. Our fee is paid in full by the client, and there is no charge for fintech candidates to work with us.

We maintain the confidentiality of both the hiring company and the candidates throughout the process. We sign NDAs at the start of a search and get guidance from our clients on what can and can’t be shared with candidates. All information we collect from candidates and companies is securely stored and protected from unauthorized access.

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