Recruiting in Markets Where Average Fails

Ocean Red has led hiring programs across the trading, energy, and fintech landscape

Where we thrive is helping high-growth and high-pressure environments hire with speed, precision, and zero compromise on quality.

Some of the projects we’ve delivered:

• Placed a Head of Engineering for a energy tech saas backed by one of the world’s largest commodity trading firms
• Rebuilt the entire technical function for an energy trading firm pivoting to LNG and renewables
• Delivered a full-stack quant development team for a hedge fund expanding into commodities trading
• Led the executive search for a Program Director to drive a multimillion-pound E/CTRM implementation
• Partnered with a SaaS ETRM vendor to scale their client delivery team across Europe and North America
• Built out DevOps and Site Reliability capability for a Regtech Suveillance firm post Series A

Permanent Solutions

Built for outcomes. Delivered at speed.

At Ocean Red, we start with the end in mind: the right hire, delivering real results.

Using our Ocean 3RE Methodology a sprint-based, agile hiring framework, we reverse-engineer every search from your business outcomes. From aligning on performance objectives to building a high-velocity hiring sprint, we lead with clarity, structure, and pace.

Our direct hire process includes:

• Reverse-engineering your OKRs to create a performance profile that defines what success looks like
• Interview process design and scorecard development to drive structured, bias-free assessments
• Creating an Ideal Candidate Profile (ICP) and Go-To-Market (GTM) plan to attract aligned candidates
• Developing multimedia candidate packs, video, digital brochures, PDFs to educate and excite top talent
• Compensation benchmarking and offer strategy to ensure competitive positioning
• Weekly reporting on search progress, pipeline quality, and candidate engagement
• DEI-informed outreach and transparent reporting throughout the process

This is hiring designed for growth-stage businesses: fast, focused, and built to deliver outcomes, not just CVs.

This isn’t keyword-matching. It’s outcome-driven hiring, built to move fast and get it right.

Every company’s hiring needs are unique, which is why we provide three levels of engagement, tailored to your business.

For fast-moving, high-priority hires, we leverage our deep industry network to deliver the right candidates quickly. For firms needing a committed search partnership, we take a strategic approach, mapping the market and defining a targeted hiring strategy. For critical leadership and specialist roles, we go all in, executing the full Ocean 3RE Methodology, deep market research, structured outreach, performance-based hiring, and post-placement support.

Your competition is evolving. Your hiring strategy needs to as well. Let’s build the team that keeps you ahead.

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Contract Solutions

The speed of financial markets, trading technology, and energy infrastructure demands a hiring approach that moves just as fast. Whether you need specialist contractors for urgent projects, embedded technologists to scale delivery teams, or a structured Statement of Work (SoW) solution, our contract and interim solutions are built for agility, precision, and impact.

We work with hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, commodity houses, fintechs, and market infrastructure providers to deliver top-tier technologists and industry specialists at speed. From quantitative engineers and software developers to CTOs and strategic consultants, we provide the expertise you need, exactly when you need it.

For urgent, flexible hiring needs, we provide contingent contract recruitment, giving you access to highly skilled professionals on demand. When companies need to augment existing teams, we identify and embed the right specialists to accelerate delivery and meet deadlines. For structured, outcome-based hiring, we offer Statement of Work and project-based solutions, ensuring cost-effective, high-impact execution for complex initiatives.

Every firm faces different challenges, and hiring speed is the difference between leading and lagging behind in competitive markets. Our contract solutions ensure you stay ahead.

Team Build

Fast. Precise. No compromises.

Whether you’re building a new trading desk, scaling a fintech engineering team, or rebuilding a delivery function post-restructure, Ocean Red plugs in fast and gets it done.

Team Build is for companies that need to hire quickly, but also get the hiring system right from day one. We don’t slot into your existing process, we help design it, lead it, and execute it, end to end. Shaping your hiring process, defining what good looks like, and delivering high-quality candidates at pace.

We don’t just know where the talent is, we know how to get them interested, excited, and aligned.

From first hire to full team buildout, we operate with speed, structure, and total clarity.

No fluff. No wasted cycles. Just serious hiring, done right.