Built for regulated growth from first hire to scale
Executive search and talent architecture for regulated startups and scale-ups where compliance, technology, risk and performance are business critical from day one.
15+ years experience • Data-led hiring decisions • Built for regulated environments
Preferred by industry experts
What makes us different
Hiring frameworks
Repeatable, structured hiring models for consistent decision making.
AI-assisted insight
Faster, more informed hiring decisions supported by data and tooling.
Executive search
Senior leadership hiring where regulatory understanding and execution matter.
Talent architecture
Designing teams, structures and hiring processes that scale with the business.
Executive and Senior Search
We work with founders and leadership teams to define roles properly, aligning responsibilities, expectations and success criteria from the outset.
Better role clarity leads to stronger hires and faster decisions.
Team and Function Build-outs
Every candidate is evaluated using consistent criteria, covering experience, capability and fit within a regulated environment.
Decisions are clear, comparable, and defensible.
Role Design and hiring architecture
We manage the hiring process end to end, keeping founders, boards and hiring teams aligned, informed and moving efficiently.
No gaps, no miscommunication, no stalled decisions.
Structured Candidate Assessment
We structure candidate comparison so decisions are clear, consistent and aligned.
Each candidate is evaluated against defined criteria, reducing subjectivity and improving confidence across stakeholders.
Better comparison leads to stronger hiring outcomes.
Market Intelligence and Benchmarking
We provide insight into the RegTech talent landscape, including candidate availability, compensation expectations and competitor positioning.
This allows hiring decisions to be grounded in real market conditions, not assumptions.
Better intelligence leads to stronger positioning, more effective outreach, and higher-quality outcomes.
AI-Assisted Search and Candidate Evaluation
We apply AI to support structured evaluation and candidate comparison.
This improves consistency, reduces bias, and accelerates decision-making, while keeping judgement firmly human-led.
Different industries, different hiring risk.
In regulated markets, hiring decisions carry operational, regulatory and commercial consequences. Our approach is shaped by the environment you operate in.
RegTech and compliance technology
Building teams where regulatory accuracy and technical delivery must scale together.
In RegTech, hiring mistakes are not just operational issues. They directly impact product integrity, client trust and regulatory outcomes.
Executive and specialist hiring
Targeted search for senior and specialist roles across compliance, product and engineering.
No broad CV pipelines. Focused, relevant shortlists.
Market mapping and candidate insight
Clear visibility into where the right candidates sit, how they move and what it takes to secure them.
Informed decisions before the process begins.
FinTech, payments and financial services
Hiring in environments where growth, governance and risk must move together
In financial services, hiring decisions are scrutinised by regulators, investors and internal stakeholders.
We support organisations scaling teams without introducing governance gaps, slowing delivery, or increasing operational risk.
Risk and compliance leadership
Senior hires across risk, compliance and operations where accountability and oversight are critical.
Focused search, not volume-led recruitment.
Structured hiring and decision clarity
Consistent evaluation frameworks that ensure hiring decisions are clear, aligned and defensible.
No subjective hiring. No misalignment across stakeholders.
Gambling, iGaming and betting platforms
Operating where compliance pressure and commercial performance must coexist
In gambling and iGaming, organisations operate under constant regulatory scrutiny while needing to remain commercially competitive.
We support hiring across compliance, product and platform teams where risk, performance and delivery must stay aligned at all times.
Compliance and regulatory function build
Hiring across compliance, risk and governance roles where oversight and accountability are critical.
Built for environments with ongoing regulatory pressure.
Platform and technical hiring
Targeted search for engineering and product roles supporting scalable, compliant platforms.
Balancing performance, reliability and regulatory requirements.
Scaling regulated organisations
Where early hiring shortcuts become operational and compliance risk
As regulated organisations grow, gaps in structure, process and decision-making start to surface.
What worked in early hiring breaks under scale, leading to inconsistency, misalignment and increased risk.
We support leadership teams bringing structure, clarity and consistency into hiring as teams expand.
Team and function build-outs
Designing and delivering teams beneath senior leadership with clear structure, capability and accountability.
Built to scale without introducing gaps.
Consistent hiring processes
Standardised evaluation, clear decision frameworks and aligned stakeholder input across every hire.
No fragmentation as teams grow.
Better hiring decisions.
Stronger business outcomes.
When hiring is structured properly, the impact goes beyond filling roles. It improves performance, reduces risk and strengthens long-term delivery.
Hiring quality and performance
Stronger hires perform faster, integrate better and contribute meaningfully from the outset.
Clear role definition and structured assessment lead to higher-quality outcomes across the business.
Reduced risk and rework
Poor hiring decisions create operational drag, compliance exposure and costly rework.
We reduce risk by ensuring every hire is aligned, assessed properly and made with clarity.
Consistency at scale
As teams grow, inconsistent hiring creates misalignment and performance gaps.
We bring structure into the process so hiring remains consistent, regardless of volume or pace.
Trusted by teams operating under real pressure
We work with organisations where hiring decisions impact delivery, compliance and long-term performance.
“Emily sent a number of strong candidates, briefed them properly, and kept the chosen candidate engaged throughout a complex internal process. Efficient, attentive, and a high-quality service.”
Jeremy Noble
Chief Technical Officer, CUBE
“Emily has been a great support with our compliance recruitment needs, understanding both the technical requirements of the role and the importance of cultural fit for our business. She is proactive, responsive and communicates clearly throughout the recruitment process, consistently keeping us informed and adapting quickly to feedback”
Georgia Aggrey
International People Manager
"Emily did an excellent job supporting our hiring needs, consistently delivering high-quality candidates in a timely manner.
She took the time to understand the role requirements and our team culture, which meant the candidates presented were both technically strong and a great fit.
She was responsive and supportive throughout the process and I would highly recommend her."
Will Kendall
COO, Total Performance Data Ltd.
"I have worked with Emily and the team for many years across several executive roles and organisations and they consistently provide an excellent full outsourced recruitment solution backed up by practical, client centric role and organisational design advice. Emily has most recently helped me hire high quality candidates in the technology and service spaces fast and the rigorous and very comprehensive pre-screening saves me and our teams a huge amount of time. I would highly recommend Emily if you are looking to quickly scale your business and gain an advisory sounding board to boot."
Robin Morris Weston
Chief Strategy Officer
"Emily was brilliant and professional with fantastic communication. I would strongly recommend her services."
Jared Shanley
Technical Product Owner
"I would highly recommend Emily’s services as they always deliver and have successfully
placed both permanent and temporary tech staff. I find Emily to be very engaging, dependable and is always willing to advise on market trends and salary benchmarking data at short notice, which has been extremely helpful to the business over the years. Emily is extremely good at finding candidates that are great cultural fit as well as ensuring their skills and experience match the criteria and has significantly improved our time-to-hire on several key roles that historically can be hard to fill."
Lindsey Stripling
People Team
“Emily demonstrated a clear understanding of our requirements, delivered a well-curated shortlist, and supported us throughout the process with responsive, professional communication.”
Abigail Phelan
Chief Operating Officer
"Emily is the most dedicated Tech Recruiter I have experienced. Her ability to continue delivering volume against a tough requirement to completion is unparalleled."
Holly Leverson
International HR Director
"Emily was very helpful when I was searching for new opportunities. She guided me on the things I should cover on my CV and what to look out for on interviewing as well as providing very good feedback on stages of the process. I appreciate the work she put in to help me secure a new role."
Masom Miah
Principal Product Owner
"Emily has been exceptional with delivering this role, from onset to onboarding. I am very improved with her Service Continuity and how efficient she has been. I couldn't find a fault."
Katie Butler
Senior HR Business Partner
"Emily were very professional and prompt in responding and organising neccessary information process was smooth. Thank you Emily for all your help with the search.
We found Emily to be a first class agency."
Mima Lusha
HR Manager
"I had the pleasure of working with Emily during a period of rapid growth at CUBE, and she quickly became one of the most reliable and impactful recruiters we partnered with. What stood out immediately was her ability to understand not just the technical requiremes of the role, but the nuances of our culture, team dynamics and long-term goals. That depth of understanding meant every candidate she bought forward felt genuinely worth our time. "
Colin Ross
Head of Test & Release