Rebuilding Trust in Executive Hiring

Fast, Focused Delivery for a FinTech Scale-Up

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

✅ Saved an estimated 230K USD+ in search fees
📅 4-week time to hire for all three senior positions
🎯 100% shortlist-to-hire success rate
💬 95% hiring manager satisfaction score

CLIENT NAME

FinTech Company (Series A)

INDUSTRY

Financial Technology

Service Type

Executive & Project Hiring

The Challenge

A Series A FinTech company approached Talaas with a critical challenge — they needed to make three strategic senior hires to support product, commercial, and operations growth. Their internal team lacked the bandwidth to run executive-level searches and had recently experienced a disappointing engagement with a traditional search firm.

In that prior engagement:

The process had been slow, expensive, and overly rigid
It resulted in a hire that left after only one month
There was no refund or replacement, leaving the team frustrated and reluctant to re-engage with a typical retained search model
They needed a new approach — one that was faster, more transparent, and outcome-focused, without inflated costs or inflexible contracts.

The Solution

In that prior engagement:

The process had been slow, expensive, and overly rigid
It resulted in a hire that left after only one month
There was no refund or replacement, leaving the team frustrated and reluctant to re-engage with a typical retained search model
They needed a new approach — one that was faster, more transparent, and outcome-focused, without inflated costs or inflexible contracts.

The Results

In that prior engagement:

The process had been slow, expensive, and overly rigid
It resulted in a hire that left after only one month
There was no refund or replacement, leaving the team frustrated and reluctant to re-engage with a typical retained search model
They needed a new approach — one that was faster, more transparent, and outcome-focused, without inflated costs or inflexible contracts.

Why TALAAS?

In that prior engagement:

The process had been slow, expensive, and overly rigid
It resulted in a hire that left after only one month
There was no refund or replacement, leaving the team frustrated and reluctant to re-engage with a typical retained search model
They needed a new approach — one that was faster, more transparent, and outcome-focused, without inflated costs or inflexible contracts.

Hear what they had to say

After a frustrating experience with a traditional search firm, we were hesitant to engage anyone else. Talaas changed our entire perspective. Their project-based model gave us speed, transparency, and total confidence in the process. In just four weeks, they delivered three senior hires, all highly aligned, highly capable, and culturally on point. No fluff, no inflated fees. Just real results.

Jonathan W.

Founder & CEO, Series A FinTech