product recruitment agency and headhunters for banking, insurance and fintech
your next product manager or product owner, hired by finance specialists.
We hand your role to the headhunter with the most product hires at banks, insurers and fintechs: accounts, cards, payments, online contracts.
- no setup fees, pay on hire
- guaranteed replacement
they hire their product teams with muzzo
how do you hire a product manager or product owner for finance?
Muzzo recruits product roles for banks, insurers and fintechs: product managers, product owners and product leads. Each role goes to the headhunters with the most hires in the sector, who check what was actually shipped on a regulated product. Fee of 5 to 30%, paid on hire. Leaves within 3 months: we restart the search free.
how it works
you only pay if you hire
01
you describe the role
Using the form above: the role, your company, your sector. The rest is scoped in your first conversation with the Muzzo team.
02
the right headhunters get started
Those who have already hired product profiles for banks, insurers or fintechs.
03
you meet the profiles
Approached and screened by the headhunter on what they've shipped. You choose who you meet.
04
you hire, then you pay
Not before. If your new hire leaves within 3 months, we restart the search at no cost.
they hired with muzzo
Muzzo's strength is the diversity of its recruiters: there is always someone listening to our needs.
With Muzzo, I get the reactivity of a marketplace and the quality of a search firm.
let's talk about your role
Antoine and the Muzzo team help you scope your role and choose the right headhunters. Describe your role in the form: we'll call you back to discuss it.
Antoine GigomasCEO and co-founder of Muzzo
one last question?
You set the fee for each role, between 5 and 30%, and you only pay it on hire. No deposit, no fixed fees. A junior product owner and a head of product leading several teams on a regulated product don't call for the same search effort: the fee follows that difference.
You get a double guarantee. If your new hire leaves within 3 months, we restart the search at no cost. If no replacement is found within 4 months, we refund 50% of the fees. On average, 94% of Muzzo hires are still in post after 3 months.
our finance headhunters are ready to start
A hire signed in under 26 days. You only pay when you hire.
the reality
a financial product is built under scrutiny, not freewheeling
a badly designed feature touches a client's money or data, not a demo
Opening an account, confirming a payment or signing up for a contract online directly involves a client's money or personal data. The headhunter checks that the profile has already built this kind of journey, not just a secondary feature.
a bank's or insurer's product lives under regulatory scrutiny
Since the European PSD2 directive, a payment journey must meet precise authentication and security rules. A product manager who has already designed a product under this framework avoids costly back-and-forth with compliance.
the insurance product lead and the fintech product manager rarely share the same background
In insurance, the product lead designs an offer and its pricing over long cycles. At a fintech, the product manager iterates on an app in a matter of weeks. Two similar-sounding roles, sourced from different networks.
the roles
the product profiles our headhunters go after for finance
From a bank account to an online insurance contract, each role goes to a headhunter who knows the sector's constraints.
product manager, banking or payments product
They decide the features of an account, a card or a payment journey, under the constraints of PSD2 and strong authentication.
product owner, fintech
They translate business needs into tasks for the development team, at the fast pace of a fintech or a neobank.
product lead, insurance
They design an insurance offer and its pricing, from defining coverage to commercial launch.
head of product, financial services
They lead several product teams and own the vision in front of a bank's, insurer's or fintech's leadership.
product designer, financial product
They design a sign-up or payment journey built to reassure, a particular challenge when money is involved.
the method
a headhunter who knows the constraints of financial product
Hiring a product profile for a bank or a fintech isn't the same as hiring for a consumer app: regulation and data sensitivity change the profile you need.
the brief separates the product from its regulatory framework
Account, payment, online insurance contract, the level of PSD2 or ACPR scrutiny required: these decide the profile needed, before the product manager or product owner title even comes up.
a headhunter who specialises in finance
Among more than 2,500 selected headhunters, your role goes to those with the most product hires at banks, insurers and fintechs.
what was shipped on a regulated product, checked
The headhunter asks about the choices made, the trade-offs with compliance and the metrics tracked on a financial product, not just a list of features.
the figures
product hiring in finance in figures
63
median gross annual pay for IT project management managers, a family that includes the Agile project lead, in the banking and insurance sector (80% between €46k and €87k)1
67%
of French fintechs serve non-financial companies as clients (small and medium businesses, mid-caps, large companies, independent professionals)2
20
of French fintechs are positioned on financing, ahead of asset management (14%) and insurtech (13%), each with its own product to build and evolve2
hiring product profiles for a bank, an insurer or a fintech
A bank account, a payment card or an online insurance contract directly touch a client's money or personal data. A badly designed feature can't be fixed the way it would be on a leisure app: it puts trust, and sometimes regulatory compliance, on the line.
The headhunter checks what the profile has already built in this kind of environment: payment journeys, online sign-up, document verification. A good product manager elsewhere isn't necessarily a good fit here without that experience.
The European directive (EU) 2015/2366 on payment services, known as PSD2, sets strong authentication and security rules for every online payment journey, as the ACPR points out.
In practice, a product manager or product owner designing a payment journey has to work within these constraints from the first mock-ups, not just at development stage. A profile already trained on this framework saves the whole team time.
In insurance, a growing share of the product is going digital, from online sign-up to claims filing, without erasing the long-standing product lead role, which designs an offer and its pricing over long cycles.
A fintech moves at a different pace: according to France FinTech, 20% of French fintechs are positioned on financing, 14% on asset management and 13% on insurtech. Each field has its own product, with faster iterations than traditional insurance. The headhunter presents each role for what it is.
According to Apec, the median pay for an IT project management manager in banking and insurance stands at €63k, with 80% of managers in the role between €46k and €87k. A profile already in post often has several options, and salary alone isn't always enough to move them.
The headhunter highlights what matters most to this profile, often before salary: the product's impact on millions of clients, the autonomy left to navigate compliance, or conversely the faster iteration pace of a smaller fintech.
your questions about product recruitment in finance
Yes. The European directive on payment services (PSD2) sets precise authentication and security rules for every payment journey. A product manager or product owner who has already designed a product under this framework settles into the role faster.
Yes. Digital product plays a growing role there, from online sign-up to claims management, alongside the long-standing product lead role, which designs an offer and its pricing over longer cycles.
No. According to France FinTech, 20% of French fintechs are positioned on financing, 14% on asset management and 13% on insurtech: as many different products, each with its own cycles and regulatory constraints.
Our product page covers every sector. This page is for banks, insurers and fintechs, where every feature touches money or sensitive data and answers to a regulatory framework like PSD2.
Our bank page covers every role at a bank, from client relations to compliance. This page is centred on product roles: product managers, product owners and product leads.
by Antoine Gigomas, CEO and co-founder of Muzzo ·
