FinTech Recruitment Specialists

Fram Search are specialist fintech recruiters, focusing on commercial, operational and leadership hires across the UK. We have particular depth in WealthTech, which is a natural extension of our established wealth management practice.

We support fintech firms in building high-performing teams across sales, distribution, compliance, finance and operations - areas where demand for experienced talent continues to outstrip supply and the strongest candidates are rarely active in the market. These are roles that directly impact growth, revenue and regulatory performance.

We do not recruit for software engineering or technical development roles, allowing us to focus exclusively on the areas where we add the most value.

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Coverage includes:

Start Ups

Established firms

WealthTech

InvestTech

BankTech

RegTech

InsureTech

Digital Banks

AI

Crypto

P2P Lenders

Why Fram for FinTech?

Deep sector expertise

We understand how fintech firms scale beyond product - building the commercial, operational and regulatory infrastructure required for growth.

Direct market access

We proactively approach high-performing candidates in revenue-generating and control functions, not active job seekers.

Flexible approach

Supporting both growth hiring and senior, business-critical appointments, with either retained and contingent models.

Roles we place

C-Suite & Senior Leadership

Compliance & Regulatory

Operations & Finance

Sales, Marketing & Distribution

Case studies & testimonials:

Lendtech Firm – Chief Executive Officer

By the time this client came to Fram Search, they had already been looking for several months. A growing lendtech business, they needed to appoint a new CEO to succeed one of the founding team, and the profile they required was genuinely difficult to find.

The firm did not need a corporate operator. They needed someone who had built something before, who understood the founder mindset from the inside, but who was now ready to run and scale an existing business rather than start one. An entrepreneur willing to become an intrapreneur, in effect. On top of that, the candidate needed genuine fintech experience and a real understanding of how lending businesses work. Each of those requirements narrows the field. Together, they made for a demanding brief.

Fram Search approached it with intensity. We ran advertising, conducted structured research, and worked our networks hard across the fintech and lending markets. We spoke to a large number of candidates, covering the market broadly before narrowing our focus to those who genuinely met the brief rather than simply resembling it.

Within two weeks of beginning that process, we had produced a shortlist. Two candidates progressed to the financial stages of the process. One was appointed.

It was a strong outcome for a search that had stalled elsewhere, and a reminder that the right combination of reach, research, and rigorous screening can move quickly even on the most complex of briefs.

A fast growing wealth manager, who were recruiting in multiple areas of the business.

Fram’s unique structure was ideally suited to our client’s needs, as we give clients access to the knowledge of our entire team, rather than one individual. This approach combines improved resourcing and screening with knowledge of the dynamics and terminology of the industry. Providing the client with one relationship manager, supported by specialist consultants with functional expertise relevant to the individual role, we were able to help the firm hire across multiple areas.

We were initially asked to assist our client hire an Investment Manager. The role required some additional skills to the usual IM profile, but we were still able to build a shortlist from our database. However, we wanted to go a step further to get the best outcome, and so we spoke to people in our network to gather their views on suitable candidates. It was from this networking process that we found the appointee.

The client then asked us to assist with a senior operations hire. The relationship manager at Fram put together a different team to support the client and source the best available talent for the position. Again, we were successful in placing a high quality candidate. The feedback we received was very positive and we look forward to continuing to support this growing firm.

Not every search is a senior executive appointment, but every search deserves the same quality of process. When a long-established regtech firm approached Fram Search to help them hire a Content Writer, we brought the same structured thinking to the brief that we apply at any level.

The role was fully remote, which broadened the candidate pool geographically but made cultural fit harder to assess. The firm had existing recruitment relationships and chose to work with Fram on this particular hire, a decision we were keen to justify.

Our approach began broadly. We identified a wide pool of candidates and shared early-stage CVs with the client deliberately and with purpose. We find that early interaction creates a common benchmark, gives the client a voice in shaping the search, and allows us to refine our focus based on real feedback rather than assumptions. The shortlist that emerges from that process is sharper for it.

From there, we managed the search end to end. We narrowed the field based on client feedback, coordinated all interviews, and managed the offer and acceptance process through to a successful conclusion. Their preferred candidate accepted the role and joined the firm.

It is a straightforward outcome to describe, but it reflects something we care about at Fram Search. Whether the hire is a CEO or a Content Writer, a well-run process, genuine engagement with the client, and a real focus on fit tend to produce the right result.

Growing WealthTech

The brief reflected a model that is becoming more common in financial services. A growing wealthtech firm wanted to appoint a Financial Adviser to act as a human layer alongside their technology platform, providing personal advice to private clients in a way that their tech alone could not. It is an interesting hire to get right, because the candidate needs to be comfortable operating within a technology-led business, while bringing the kind of warmth and interpersonal credibility that clients expect from a human adviser.

Fram Search was a natural fit for this assignment. We have genuine experience in the wealthtech space, and a long track record of placing Financial Advisers across the UK, from regional wealth managers to national firms. That combination meant we understood both the technical context of the business and the advisory market we needed to search.

The role was fully remote, which shaped our approach significantly. A national search was both possible and necessary, and we drew on our database, our professional networks, and our social media presence to reach candidates across the country. Equally, we invested time upfront in understanding the client's proposition in depth. In a remote role, where a candidate has less opportunity to absorb a firm's culture through day to day proximity, finding someone who genuinely connected with what the client was building mattered more than usual.

The client interviewed a number of candidates from our shortlist and appointed one. A clean outcome, delivered through careful preparation and a thorough national search.