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Hire your ideal financial leader with the help of a strategic ally.
We’re headhunters specialised in startup and tech who work as an extension of your team.
We embody your values, foster candidate engagement, and guide you from the initial phases of fintech executive search to salary negotiations and onboarding.
The right fintech executive can give you the customer-centric innovation needed to build sustainable growth in a highly competitive industry.
Especially one with ever-changing regulatory standards.
But finding these unique leaders in an exhausted talent pool can be resource and time-intensive – not to mention highly stressful.
You can transform your fintech hiring process with a startup executive search firm like Nederlia.
We go beyond the average fintech recruitment agency to make your hiring process smooth, fast and stress-free by offering:
We are technology executive search specialists with a vast international network and a track record of successful executive hires.
We can source and place candidates experienced in a variety of areas – from digital banking, payments and embedded finance to wealth management, insurtech, blockchain and more.
Technical expertise isn’t the only quality we take into consideration.
For example, we’ll source potential hires who have experience in your company’s growth stage, know your market and possess transferable skills that can apply to financial services.
As experts in executive search, we work across functions. We can help you fill a variety of senior leadership roles, from CEO, Managing Director and Sales Director to CFO, CPO, CTO and CISO.
VertoFX, a B2B cross-border payments startup, needed a sales director to build a vertical in a new market. They wanted an executive experienced in FX, fintech and emerging markets.
Candidates from previous fintech recruiters fell short. While they had the right technical skills, their corporate backgrounds with deep-rooted processes were unfit for the fast-growing VertoFX.
We quickly shortlisted five experienced self-starters. VertoFX selected the candidate who didn’t have FX experience, but possessed transferable skills in lending and first-hand startup knowledge in emerging markets.
We also handled salary negotiations so VertoFX could hire their ideal fintech executive in 5 weeks.
Leave all the complexities of hiring senior fintech leaders to us – we can guide you every step of the way.
As experienced financial headhunters with a bespoke, holistic approach, we can share first-hand insights that help remove the worry from your financial services executive search.
We know how to deliver the right candidates while helping you overcome challenges such as stakeholder bottlenecks and salary negotiations.
Once we’ve discussed your financial technology goals and profile requirements, we map out candidate availability and share our insights.
We also advise you on ways to broaden your search so you can find the perfect fintech leader in less time.
We look beyond industry experience to create a shortlist of fit fintech executive candidates.
This enables us to source potential hires who may have experience in different industries, but possess the skills and attributes needed to meet your financial tech goals.
Our shortlist includes a variety of profiles to help you consider previously unexplored qualities.
Based on your feedback, we can help you refine your job description, highlight tangible facts about your firm, and avoid buzzwords to attract high-profile candidates.
We know the complexity of executive-level salary packages, which often include bonuses and stock options.
Count on us to benchmark the salary landscape, help you align your offer with candidate expectations and create enticing salary packages to attract top fintech professionals.
Receive regular updates of newly available talent and candidate feedback, helping you polish your fintech executive profile and attract more targeted prospects.
Frequent touch points provide more transparency and enable us to help you troubleshoot quickly.
We embody your company’s culture and values to attract senior fintech candidates who can envision themselves with confidence in your team.
From salary negotiations to onboarding, we help guarantee a smooth transition that fosters engagement.
Begin a worry-free executive search with Nederlia.
We’re your strategic guide who’ll remove the stress and simplify complexity every step of the way, from sourcing through onboarding.
Trust us to find your ideal fintech leader who knows how to beat the competition and deliver the innovation and speed you need for sustainable growth.
Looking for your next MD? We provide a holistic approach to finding the perfect managing director for your startup or tech company. We are not a typical managing director recruitment agency – you can count on us to act as your strategic advisor from day one.
We help you simplify the director recruitment process and remove the usual stress that comes with executive searches. This way, you can attract and hire a managing director with the skills, mindset and experience you need to get next-level business results.
Start your managing director search today
Hiring the right managing director for your company’s unique goals can mean the difference between accelerating or stalling your business growth. This is especially true for fast-moving startups, scale-ups and technology companies with no time or resources to waste.
Your managing director is a strategic figure you can’t afford to get wrong. They are the driving force behind your business operations and responsible for the performance of your company. What’s more, they play a crucial role in developing future leaders.
To complicate matters, the search for a managing director is unique to each company. You need to consider your company’s growth stage, market strategy, business model, industry and specific goals. You need to find a candidate who can steer your company in the direction it needs to go, fast.
With a scarce talent pool and high competition, the perfect managing director can seem elusive. But partnering with an executive search firm that knows how to identify the best managing director candidates in such a demanding landscape can help you easily navigate the otherwise arduous process of attracting and hiring your ideal MD.
We understand how crucial it is to get your managing director search right. With 20 years of experience in recruitment and executive search across Europe and the UK, we know how to guide tech startups and scale-ups through the headhunting process. We source, select and hire the best candidates to fill even the most challenging managing director roles.
We have tried-and-true processes and strategic advisors to help you identify your ideal MD, easing the pressure on your HR teams. Even when your talent pools run dry and candidates are hard to find, we help you look beyond the conventional requirements of a managing director and consider other criteria, including:
One of our technology executive search clients was looking for two managing directors. One had to expand their operation in Germany, their most important market. The other MD needed to reposition their business in Spain by scaling down operations, pivoting with a new value proposition and penetrating a new market.
Technically, our client was looking for two managing directors, but the roles differed greatly. Each required a distinct set of skills, attitude and experience to lead country-specific operations in separate paths. One required a history in startup culture and business growth, the other in realignment, restructuring and innovation.
We helped our client locate and hire the MDs needed, one in just three months, thanks to our understanding of the markets involved and the client’s business needs, along with effective salary negotiation to attract the suitable candidates.
With us, you’ll have the structure you need to hire the managing director who can move your business forward and achieve your goals.
Hire your next managing director
20+ years of experience in recruitment and startup executive search have taught us that finding the right candidate is just one step of the process. There’s a lot more to a managing director search – and each step can be more stressful than the next.
Thanks to our experience going through similar processes with other companies, we can share first-hand insights with you that help take the worry out of executive search.
Whatever challenges you face, we’ve likely faced them before and know how to handle them. We will keep you informed at all times so you can rest easy knowing you are in good hands.
Leave all the complexities of your managing director search to us and trust us to guide you every step of the way.
Here’s what your next managing director hire can look like:
Once we’ve discussed your business goals and profile requirements, we map out candidate availability and share insights we gather on the available talent pool. We also guide you to look further afield, such as considering candidates across borders or from different industries when it makes sense. This way, you can broaden your opportunities of finding the perfect managing director for your company.
Next, we compile a shortlist of candidates we believe are a good fit. We look beyond the job title to understand the underlying competencies and strengths you’re seeking. This strategic approach enables us to identify and present candidates who may have different titles in their current roles but possess the exact blend of skills and attributes you need. This ensures that the candidates we present are not only qualified but also perfectly aligned with your organisation’s goals.
We make a point of including a variety of different profiles in our initial candidate shortlist because seeing a diverse list of candidates may lead you to discover requirements you hadn’t considered. For example, we may include candidates who have industry experience, have been through your company’s growth stage, have built departments from scratch, etc. Based on the shortlist and feedback session, we help you refine your managing director job description and include the characteristics that can bring you the exceptional strategic leaders your business deserves.
Managing director salary packages are complex, often including bonuses, stock options and more. Count on us to guide you so your offer aligns with the market and candidate expectations. We can help you avoid making an easy-to-refuse proposal, risking you going back to square one. We benchmark the current salary landscape and guide you on creating competitive packages to attract and hire a motivated managing director.
We give you regular updates of newly available talent and candidate feedback, which can help you polish your MD role to attract more motivated, targeted prospects. Talking to the best potential hires can even reveal business insights you haven’t previously considered, taking your strategy and MD search in new directions. These touch points also allow for greater transparency. We can help you identify and turn obstacles into learning opportunities, align internal teams, and troubleshoot more quickly throughout the headhunting process.
As your partner in managing director search, we act as your representative. We support your candidate along the way, ensuring greater confidence in the process and your employer brand. We promote your startup culture so candidates can get a better sense of how they can fit into your company. You and your chosen managing director can take advantage of our support with the onboarding process to ensure a successful, efficient start.
Start your managing director search today
We go further than your average managing director or CEO recruitment agency. We help you identify the right executive search priorities from day one so you can hire the talent capable of meeting your business goals. We guide you every step of the way, from defining the job description to onboarding your new managing director.
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