Uncompromising Search for Digital Asset Talent
Moonraker Search is a boutique executive search firm operating exclusively at the intersection of quantitative trading, advanced technology, and digital assets. We partner with the institutional architects of digital asset trading—from tier-one market makers and crypto-native hedge funds to high-frequency prop desks and institutional trading platform pioneers—building the elite engineering, quant, and execution teams defining modern finance.
Our Operating Model
We believe that extraordinary results require undivided commitment. To maintain an unyielding standard of quality, we adhere to three uncompromising operational principles:
One Project at a Time We run a focused model. By limiting our active mandates and dedicating full bandwidth to a single project at a time, we ensure your search receives our total strategic focus, comprehensive research, and undivided attention.
100% Retained Partnerships We do not engage in contingent volume hiring. Every engagement is fully retained, structuring a true advisory alignment where our interests are completely joined with yours.
Guaranteed Execution We take total ownership of outcomes. Powered by rigorous research and precise market mapping, we maintain a 100% commitment to delivery. We do not stop until the mandate is successfully completed.
Key Capabilities
We do not engage in junior or mass-market hiring. We focus strictly on technical and operational senior IC to leadership mandates, spanning VPs, MDs and C-Suite/Executive appointments across our core verticals:
Leadership to Executive: VP, Head of, Director, MD, and C-Level appointments across technical, quantitative, and operational business functions.
Engineering & Technology: Software Engineering, Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, High-Frequency Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, and Low-Latency Systems.
Quantitative Research & Trading: Alpha Generation, Quantitative Development, Systematic Trading, and Risk Architecture.
Data Science & AI / ML: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, NLP, and Large-Scale Data Engineering for Financial Markets.
Purposeful Impact
Excellence extends to how we operate. As a people and planet first organisation, we combine high-performance execution with environmental responsibility. Moonraker operates climate positively, funding verified carbon avoidance projects and planting 100 trees through our sustainability partner for every single placement made.
