Scaling Fintech & Payments
teams across EMEA & US
People at the heart of everything we doFounded in 2008 and headquartered in Amsterdam, PCN helps fintech and payments companies, from Series A to publicly listed enterprises, hire smarter, scale faster, and stay ahead in a competitive market.
Sound Familiar?
Every business faces hiring challenges that can't be solved by simply posting another job advert. Whether you're scaling rapidly, expanding into new markets, hiring for highly specialised roles, or navigating periods where your employer brand is under pressure and attracting top talent requires greater trust and discretion, our team is equipped to help.
With deep market expertise and an extensive network built over nearly two decades, we give our clients access to talent others struggle to reach, creating a real competitive advantage.
Growing faster than your hiring capabilities can keep up with?
Looking for niche specialists in an increasingly competitive market?
Need to hire exceptional talent while navigating employer brand challenges?
Expanding into a new market but lacking the local knowledge, network, and talent expertise to build your team?
Trusted by
Behind every name on this list is a role that needed filling, a market that needed navigating, and a hire that made a difference.
Plus many more...
More than recruitment
The companies that hire best in Fintech stay close to the market long before a vacancy opens. We help with both sides of that: finding the right people, and understanding the market they're coming from.
Fintech and payments professionals in our network
Fintech and payments clients served
Candidate retention rate
Specialist Search
With over 18 years of experience in fintech and payments recruitment, we’re a strategic talent partner helping businesses build high-performing teams. Whether you’re hiring permanent talent for long-term growth, need experienced contractors and interim specialists for projects or short-term requirements, or require embedded recruitment support to scale your hiring capabilities, our tailored solutions provide the expertise and flexibility needed to secure the right people at every stage of your growth.
Talent Insights
Know what the market looks like before you make a move. From competitor hiring activity and talent movements to insights into who is hiring who, candidate availability, and salary benchmarks, we give you a clear view of the fintech and payments landscape across EMEA and the US.
The market intelligence you need to understand your position, anticipate change, and make smarter hiring decisions with confidence.
From insight to hire
A discovery call to understand your business, the role, and where the real hiring challenge lies.
Before the search starts, we share what we're seeing: talent pools, salary benchmarks, hiring signals, and anything else that should shape the brief.
We present a longlist with context — who each candidate is, why they're relevant, and what the market looks like around them.
After a joint review, we move to a curated shortlist of pre-vetted candidates, ready to interview.
Interview coordination, offer management, and counter-offer preparation throughout.
Post-placement, we follow-up to protect retention and make sure the hire lands well on both sides.
One Industry, Every Function
We recruit in one industry, and across every function within it.
Deep enough to know the market, broad enough to cover the whole team.
The Klarna team needed Product & Commercial professionals in the competitive European & American markets, with a rare blend of advanced technical and sales skills, and genuine fit for Klarna's culture and values.
We started by learning Klarna's culture and the exact profiles they're looking for. Then we hand-selected candidates from thousands of CVs and sent executive summaries: experience, salary expectations, and notice periods at a glance.
We placed 20+ hires across Product, Commercial and Technology, at every level of seniority, with an average time-to-fill of 42 days. These results deepened Klarna's trust in us, extending our partnership into more roles and more locations.
- •Product Managers
- •Partnerships Managers
- •Director of Partner Management
- •Commercial Manager
- •Commercial Director
- •Solutions Engineers
- •Marketing Manager
- •Software Engineers
- •Project Managers
- •Head of Sales
And other roles filled
“PCN is different from all other recruitment agencies because they put in a lot of work to understand the roles that they are given. While others can get this wrong and I find myself telling them it's not quite what we are looking for. With PCN, from the very start they knew what we needed and did their research. ”
It starts with a conversation
The best place to start is a conversation. Tell us what you're hiring for, or where you're stuck, and we'll come back with a view of the market and a clear idea of how we can help.
