Finding Fintech Talent That Understands the Work
When a credit union or financial institution is building an open banking and digital payments program, the talent challenge is rarely about finding someone with the right title on a resume. It is about finding professionals who have done the work, understand the architecture, and can operate at the intersection of fintech product development and legacy financial infrastructure.
Talvero is a payments and fintech recruiting firm that works exclusively within this ecosystem, connecting hiring teams with professionals who are already doing this work elsewhere and are the right fit to do it for you.
About Talvero
Formerly known as IMPACT Payments Recruiting, Talvero has spent more than two decades building relationships with payments and fintech professionals across North America. The firm is not a generalist staffing agency that happens to fill fintech roles on occasion. Every search Talvero conducts sits within the payments, cards, fintech, and open banking space.
That focus shapes how Talvero sources, evaluates, and presents candidates, and it shapes how candidly the firm can represent an employer’s opportunity to someone who has options. Talvero‘s founding principles and team background reflect a firm that was built by people who came out of the payments industry, not just recruited for it.
Why Work With Talvero
Organizations that engage Talvero are typically not looking for a transactional vendor. They are hiring teams with specific capability gaps, often under real pressure to deliver, and they need a recruiting partner who can make a credible case to candidates about why a particular opportunity is worth their attention. That matters especially for credit unions and community financial institutions competing for the same fintech talent that challenger banks and larger institutions are also pursuing. Talvero understands how to position that conversation honestly and compellingly. The Talvero team brings firsthand market knowledge and direct relationships, not just a broad network pitch.
Roles Talvero regularly fills within payments, fintech, and open banking teams include:
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Head of Digital Payments and Open Banking
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Payments Product Manager
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API Partnerships Manager
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Fintech Integration Strategist
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VP of Digital Strategy
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Risk and Compliance Director (Payments)
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Director of Member or Customer Digital Experience
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Business Development Manager, Fintech Partnerships
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Chief Innovation Officer
You can also follow Talvero on LinkedIn to stay current on the firm’s activity across the payments and fintech recruiting market.
Connect With Talvero‘s Payments Recruiting Team
If your organization is working to fill open banking, digital payments, or fintech product roles and needs a recruiting partner who already knows this market, Talvero is worth a direct conversation. The firm works with financial institutions, credit unions, payments processors, fintech companies, and banks across North America.
Reaching out with a specific role or a broader team-building challenge gives the Talvero team what they need to assess fit and explain how the search process works.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes Talvero different from general executive search firms when hiring for fintech and open banking roles?
Talvero works exclusively within the payments, cards, and fintech ecosystem. That specialization means the firm’s recruiters are not learning the market from a job description. They already have active relationships with professionals working in open banking, digital payments product management, API partnerships, and fintech strategy. When a hiring team needs someone with a very specific combination of skills, Talvero can reach out directly to people who fit that profile rather than posting and waiting for applications.
For organizations like credit unions that are trying to compete for fintech-caliber talent against larger or more recognizable employers, that direct relationship access and the ability to present the opportunity credibly to skeptical candidates makes a meaningful difference.
Does Talvero recruit for credit unions and community financial institutions, or primarily for fintech companies and large banks?
Talvero works across the full range of organizations operating within the payments and fintech space, including credit unions, community banks, payments processors, card networks, fintech startups, and established financial technology companies. The firm understands that credit unions pursuing open banking or real-time payments strategies face a specific recruiting challenge: they need to attract professionals who may not immediately think of a credit union as a destination for fintech-focused work. Talvero can help frame that conversation honestly and in a way that resonates with candidates who have options.
What types of roles does Talvero fill most often for organizations building open banking and digital payments teams?
The roles Talvero fills most frequently within open banking and digital payments programs include payments product managers, API and fintech partnerships managers, digital strategy directors, heads of digital payments, risk and compliance professionals with payments specialization, business development leaders focused on fintech partner relationships, and senior innovation leadership including Chief Innovation Officers. The firm also fills supporting functions such as marketing, sales, and operations roles that are specific to the payments and fintech industry.
How does Talvero approach sourcing candidates who are not actively looking for a new role?
Most of the strongest candidates for specialized fintech and payments roles are not actively applying for jobs. They are employed, productive, and often not watching job boards. Talvero‘s approach relies on direct outreach through established relationships and a maintained network of professionals built over more than two decades in this market. Rather than posting a role and filtering applications, Talvero identifies specific professionals who match the hiring criteria and reaches out to them directly, presenting the opportunity in context and with enough market credibility to make the conversation worth their time.
What geographic markets does Talvero serve?
Talvero‘s primary market is North America, with a significant focus on clients and candidates within the United States. The firm works with organizations and professionals across major financial services and fintech markets, including New York, and recruits across the country for roles that require specialized payments and fintech expertise. Many searches involve candidates who are open to relocation or remote and hybrid arrangements, and Talvero factors those considerations into the search strategy from the beginning.
How should a hiring team prepare before engaging Talvero for a fintech recruiting search?
The most productive search engagements start with clarity about the role’s core function, the team it sits within, the initiative it supports, and what success looks like in the first year. For innovation and digital payments roles in particular, understanding the organizational context matters as much as the technical requirements. Talvero‘s team will ask detailed questions about the team structure, reporting lines, technology environment, fintech partner relationships, and the culture of the broader organization. The more context a hiring team can share at the outset, the better positioned Talvero is to identify candidates who will genuinely fit and stay.