FinTech Executive Search
12 companies · 26 searches · 6,864 executives evaluated
Most software can ship a bad release and recover by Friday. A payments platform, a lending system, or a tax engine cannot. The failure mode is not churn, it is a regulator, a restated filing, or a client explaining to their own client why the money is not there. Executives who have only worked where speed was the highest virtue often cannot recalibrate to a market where being right matters more than being first.
The buyer is unusual too. Financial advisors, accountants, lenders, and insurance underwriters are professionals whose reputation depends on the tools they choose. They do not adopt software because it is clever. They adopt it because a peer they trust already did, and they leave slowly and quietly rather than loudly. That makes trust the growth engine and makes a single bad quarter of pressure selling more expensive than it looks.
We screen for leaders who treat regulation and trust as product constraints rather than obstacles. In practice that usually means someone who has built inside a regulated environment before, or who has sold to a professional buyer and understands why the sales cycle is slow on purpose.
Across 28 searches in fintech, wealthtech, and insurtech companies, six of those clients came back for a second search or more. In a market where trust compounds, that is the metric that matters most.
RELEVANT COMPANIES
REPRESENTATIVE PLACEMENTS
Vice President of Finance
HOLISTIPLAN
Strategic finance rather than a controller build, at a company scaling fast on a lean setup.
Senior Vice President of Engineering
GODOCS
Modernising a 27-year-old platform that processes commercial loan closings for regulated lenders, without a bad release.
Vice President of Sales
WEALTHBOX
Building a sales function at a company that reached $30M ARR on product quality and word of mouth in a tight-knit advisor community.
Executive Vice President of Marketing
SAFESEND
Taking a product accountants recommended to each other and giving it a market position.
Vice President of Marketing
Safesend
Product leadership for users who are accountants, with exacting workflow expectations and no tolerance for change during busy season.
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33eleven Partners places VP through C-suite leaders at Private Equity-backed Fintech, Wealthtech, and Insurtech companies.