Fintech & Payments Recruitment · Europe

The right talent
for companies
built to last

Wild Talent partners with fintech, payments and regulated financial institutions across Europe to strengthen the teams that shape sustainable growth.

Wild Talent
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Fintech Payments Banking Crypto & Web3 Insurtech Regulated Finance Banking-as-a-Service

Deep knowledge of the Fintech European ecosystem

We bring a thoughtful approach to senior hiring, aligning talent decisions with your business stage and priorities. We prioritise judgment over volume, and long-term alignment over speed. We know the European fintech landscape: the key players, the emerging challengers, the talent pools that matter. That context shapes every search we run.

Executive & Leadership

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Senior leadership hires in fintech carry disproportionate weight — the wrong call at the top sets back an organisation far more than a mis-hire further down. We work at board and C-suite level with the discretion, rigour and network that executive search demands.

CEO CFO COO CTO CPO CCO MD

Revenue & Go-to-Market

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Revenue hires in fintech require more than sales experience — they need regulatory awareness, ecosystem knowledge and the ability to navigate long enterprise cycles. We find commercial leaders who understand the nuances of selling financial infrastructure, forging distribution partnerships, and building sustainable pipelines in competitive European markets.

VP Sales Head of Partnerships Sales Director Head of Growth BD Lead

Risk, Compliance & Regulatory

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Compliance and risk hiring in fintech is high-stakes — a mis-hire can delay a licence, trigger a regulatory action or block a funding round. We specialise in finding professionals with hands-on experience across European regulatory frameworks, who can act as a genuine business partner rather than just a gatekeeper.

Chief Risk Officer MLRO Head of Compliance DPO Regulatory Counsel

Engineering & Product

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We place product and engineering leaders who can navigate the complexity of regulated tech environments — from core banking and payment rails to embedded finance and API-first platforms. Whether it's building a product org from scratch or scaling an existing engineering team, we look for people who combine technical depth with fintech domain expertise.

VP Engineering Head of Product Engineering Manager Staff Engineer

Operations

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Operational leadership in fast-growing fintechs requires rare cross-functional range — someone who can hold together finance, legal, people and execution at pace. We identify leaders who bring structure without slowing things down, and who've ideally scaled a fintech from one market to several.

COO Country Manager Head of Operations General Manager
What we do

Three ways we work
with your team

01

Recruitment

End-to-end recruitment for specific roles. First hires, critical roles and team-shaping moments, when the next hire defines the next chapter.

02

Executive Search

Confidential searches for Heads of, Directors and C-level roles in high-growth environments.

03

Advisory & Market Intelligence

Strategic support on hiring, team structuring and scaling phases. Talent mapping, compensation benchmarking and organisational insights to inform your people strategy.

Slow down to get it right.

1

Understand

We learn your business, your culture, and what success looks like here.

2

Reach

We find the people who are already excelling somewhere else.

3

Assess

We engage with care. A shortlist is a point of view, not a list.

4

Follow

We stay close. The relationship outlasts the process.

Let's talk about your next hire

Whether you're building a team, filling a critical role, or just thinking ahead, we're happy to have a conversation.

Location Europe-wide

We usually respond within 24 hours.

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