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HeadHunters Hub

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Legal • Marketing

HeadHunters Hub is a specialized recruitment firm focused on matching growing FinTech teams across Europe with senior and specialist talent. The company provides transparent, proactive hiring services for clients—delivering curated shortlists, replacing hires who don’t pass probation, and reducing hiring risk—and offers candidates personalized support, access to hidden roles, and honest guidance through the hiring process. HeadHunters Hub operates a career site and handles roles ranging from executive leadership (CEO, CCO/MLRO) to compliance and AML positions, often supporting hybrid and remote placements.

📋 Description

• Identify and engage qualified prospects across Forex trading, iGaming, betting, casino, dating, creator, and subscription-based digital platforms • Use an existing warm network to generate introductions, accelerate conversations, and build a strong commercial pipeline • Own the full B2B sales cycle from prospecting and discovery to negotiation, closing, and handover • Position open banking payments as a practical solution for high-risk merchants facing payment restrictions, high fees, conversion issues, or compliance complexity • Build targeted go-to-market strategies for high-risk merchant segments across Europe • Develop relationships with founders, CEOs, payment leads, commercial directors, and other senior stakeholders • Collaborate with Product, Risk, and Compliance teams to align payment solutions with client needs and regulatory expectations • Negotiate commercial terms and close high-value, long-term partnership agreements • Track market trends, competitor activity, and regulatory developments across payments, Forex, iGaming, and high-risk merchant categories • Consistently meet or exceed revenue targets, pipeline goals, and key sales KPIs

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of B2B sales experience in FinTech, payments, open banking, acquiring, PSPs, or related financial technology sectors • Proven track record selling to merchants in Forex trading, iGaming, betting, casino, dating, creator, subscription, or other high-risk digital verticals • Existing warm network of relevant merchants, operators, brokers, platforms, payment decision-makers, or commercial partners • Strong understanding of payment challenges for high-risk merchants, including acceptance, compliance, fraud, chargebacks, conversion, and payment restrictions • Ability to manage complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders and high commercial value • Excellent negotiation, communication, and relationship-building skills • Self-driven, target-oriented mindset with the ability to work independently in a remote sales role • Fluent English • Experience selling open banking, account-to-account payments, API-based payment infrastructure, or alternative payment methods is a nice-to-have • Established network across European Forex, iGaming, betting, casino, or creator economy ecosystems is a nice-to-have • Additional European languages are a nice-to-have • Experience working with growth-stage FinTech companies or international commercial teams is a nice-to-have • Strong commercial instincts and ability to prioritise high-value opportunities • Warm, relationship-led sales approach with confidence opening senior-level conversations • Consultative selling style with the ability to translate payment challenges into clear business value • High ownership, discipline, and comfort working with revenue targets • Sound judgement when working with complex merchant categories and regulated markets

🏖️ Benefits

• EUR 5,000-8,000 gross monthly salary • Attractive performance-based bonus • Fully remote working model across Europe • High ownership over your market, pipeline, and commercial strategy • Opportunity to sell payment solutions into high-demand, underserved merchant segments • Direct exposure to senior decision-makers across Forex, iGaming, betting, casino, and digital platform ecosystems • International team with strong FinTech and payments expertise • Clear room for career growth as the commercial function expands • Flexible hours and autonomy to manage your own sales process