Taecen Search
Building technical teams at the frontier of finance, data and payments.
We work with companies backed by private capital who need to make key critical hires to support their growth. Permanent, full time hires across technology, product, and data.1
Taecen is Old English: a sign, a mark, a token. It shares its root with taecan, to show, to teach, to guide, and has links to the old word for "token". Our logo is ᚫ, Aesc, the rune for the "ae" in Taecen.
I started my career in banking at HSBC in London. I wore a suit to work, had a BlackBerry, and worked on mid-market leveraged buyouts.
It was 2013, debt was cheap and this was exciting. I got sent out to New York to cover Tech, Media and Telecom clients and loved the city, but began to realise I didn't love the work. I was very curious about people, talent and interviewing. So, after six months of networking and dealing with "why do you want to leave banking for recruiting?", I found a smart team of people building a hiring platform who needed someone hungry to start their US office. We built a great team on East 17th St and helped hundreds of engineers get jobs at functional programming, crypto and AI startups across the US.
Since 2020 I've been on the other side of the table, in GTM roles across Series B scale ups in the HR, recruiting and AI space. I launched Karat into Europe and India, working with CTOs and Talent leaders on their interviewing pipelines, and at one point in 2021 we were delivering over 1000 interviews a month. After that, Pypestream and TechWolf, both building complex, custom AI products.
Now it's back to recruiting, helping fintech clients find the people that enable their growth.
