TL;DR
SYTalent is a specialist executive search firm for high-frequency trading, quantitative finance, trading technology, FinTech and investment leadership. We run retained and confidential searches across India, Singapore, the UAE, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and Japan, for more than 65 clients.
The work is organised into six practices and five specialisms. The distinction matters when you brief us: a practice is a market we cover end to end, from individual contributor to C-suite. A specialism is a narrower capability that cuts across practices, where the candidate pool is small enough to be searched name by name.
Why specialist rather than generalist
Three things make these searches different from general technology recruitment, and all three are reasons a generalist shortlist disappoints.
The titles travel badly. A quant at one firm does signal research and at another writes production C++. A Head of Payments can be an operations seat, a merchant P&L or a bank product role. A brief assembled from the title alone produces candidates nobody wants to interview.
The pools are small and passive. For most of the roles below, the people who can do the job are employed, not looking, and number in the dozens rather than the thousands in any given market. They have to be mapped and approached individually.
The regulator is sometimes the hiring manager. For control functions at a regulated entity, the reporting line, tenure and eligibility conditions are set outside your company, which narrows the pool before compensation is even discussed.
How we search sets out how we handle all three.
Practices
- HFT and prop tradingQuant traders, quant researchers, low-latency engineers and trading leadership for HFT, market-making and prop firms.
- Quant and systematicQuant researchers, developers, strategists, systematic PMs and heads of quant.
- Trading technologyLow-latency C++, FPGA, market data, exchange connectivity, networks and trading infrastructure.
- FinTech leadershipCTOs, CPOs, heads of engineering and product for payments, lending, wealth and digital banks.
- AI, DeepTech and quantumAgentic AI, AI/ML, advanced computing, quantum, robotics and frontier technology.
- Investment and capital markets leadershipCIOs, fund managers, heads of investments and investment technology leaders.
Specialisms
- Algorithmic tradingAlgo traders, strategy developers and execution algorithm engineers across firms, brokers and banks.
- AI and machine learning quant recruitmentML quant researchers, AI platform engineers and model risk specialists.
- Market making and systematic tradingQuoting traders, systematic PMs and the engineers behind them.
- Risk, controls and trade surveillancePre-trade risk engineers, quant risk, model validation and surveillance.
- Market data and trading infrastructureFeed handlers, connectivity, networks, Linux performance and reliability.