Digital Assets
Executive and senior specialist roles inside exchanges, market makers, custodians, protocol foundations and the funds that back them.
Explore the industryThe trusted talent partner in digital assets and AI
Spectrum Search partners with companies and investors on executive and senior specialist hires across two industries we know from the inside: digital assets and artificial intelligence. UK-based. Working globally.
Two industries, deeply known. Specialist-led on every brief. Discreet by default.
Executive and senior specialist placements
450+
Years of hiring experience
30+
Geographic coverage
Global
Selected partners
Trusted by leadership at Wintermute, B2C2, Reap, and dozens more.
We’ve partnered with crypto-native firms, AI labs, and the funds that back them. Most of our work is invisible by design — these are the names we’re allowed to share.
Two industries
One firm. Two industries.
Artificial Intelligence
Executive and senior specialist roles inside applied AI businesses, foundation model labs, AI-native software companies and the investors funding them.
Explore the industryHow we work
The shape of every search.
1
Start before the search.
Every brief is led by a specialist who has placed the role before. We spend the opening of every engagement inside your team — strategy, comp, culture, and the things the brief doesn't say out loud.
2
Fast to shortlist. Slow to close.
Senior searches stall most often in the gap between brief and shortlist. We close that gap fast, then make space for the considered work of choosing. A tight shortlist in weeks, not months.
3
Decisions, not defaults.
Every senior hire is a sequence of tradeoffs — pedigree against domain, geography against comp, speed against fit. We surface them at the opening, when they can shape the search. Not at the close, when they cost you the shortlist.
4
Re-frame, don't restart.
Briefs evolve. Markets move. When they do, we re-frame the shortlist rather than discard it, and re-engage the parts of the work that still hold — so you don't pay for the same search twice.
Trust
What we stand for.
- Discreet by default.Every brief is held in confidence. Mandates appear publicly only when you decide they should. Candidates only meet the client's name when you're ready.
- A career inside these industries.Spectrum's partners and specialists have spent careers placing senior leaders and specialists across digital assets and AI — exchanges, foundations, AI labs, and the funds that back them.
- A tight shortlist, not a long one.We'd rather present a small shortlist we believe in than a long one to look thorough. If we can't find the right person inside your brief, we'll tell you — and re-frame it, or walk away.
- Built on repeat business.Most of our work comes from clients we've placed for before, and from the candidates we've placed who became clients themselves. A single fee is never the goal.
Currently searching for
A live window onto our work.
Anonymised by default — full briefs on each mandate page.
Digital AssetsSpecialist
Compliance Manager & BSA Officer
Stablecoin-rail cross-border payments platform · US (Remote)
BSA Officer for the firm's US licensed entity, owning the federal and state compliance programme.
Live · OpenView brief
AISenior
Head of Evaluations
Frontier model lab · London
Head of Evaluations reporting to the Head of Research, running the lab's full evaluations programme across capability and safety.
Live · OpenView brief
AISenior
Head of Inference
AI infrastructure (compute) provider · Remote (US/EU)
Leads the firm's inference platform programme, running model serving, latency, and cost economics for the firm's frontier-lab customers.
Live · OpenView brief
Featured engagement
A recent search, told in full.
Digital Assets
CEO · Borrow-and-lend protocol within a Web3 venture studio
Scaling a borrow-and-lend protocol after early product-market fit.
Read the engagement12 weeks
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Case studies
Completed searches, in their own words.
IntersectionSpecialist
Building a founding team in post-quantum cryptography across design, engineering and research
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10 weeks
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IntersectionExecutive
Building international hubs across Europe and LATAM for a stablecoin-powered fintech
Working with Craig & the Spectrum team have been seamless and genuinely impactful. Since we started working together during a period of rapid global expansion, he has consistently delivered strong candidates across APAC, EU, and LATAM. He is highly responsive, moves quickly and understands our hiring needs well, which has made the entire process efficient and reliable.
Chris Chan, Talent Acquisition Manager, REAP
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7 weeks
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