Group W

Group W Partners is a payments executive search firm that has specialised exclusively in mission-critical roles across payments, fintech, and related digital transaction verticals since 1999. The team brings more than 75 years of combined experience, including former executives from American Express, Equifax, and DnB, giving them firsthand insight into the talent, operating models, and regulatory demands of the industry. Group W Partners helps companies secure leaders who drive revenue, compliance, product innovation, and operational scale, with a reputation for delivering results when the hire must be right the first time. The firm delivers strategic recruiting solutions across executive search, traditional contingency search, and recruitment as a service, with particular expertise in identifying candidates for C-suite and VP-level positions, heads of risk, compliance, fraud and underwriting, product and go-to-market leadership, and technical and operational payments leaders.

Group W Partners specialises in multiple core sectors within the payments and fintech ecosystem. In payments recruitment, they focus on payments gateways, cross-border payments, accounts receivable and payable automation, integrated payments, merchant processing, real-time payments, and fraud prevention. Within fintech, the firm specialises in embedded finance, banking as a service, payments orchestration, payments as a service, card issuing as a service, subscription services, and buy now pay later solutions. The company also focuses on emerging technologies including blockchain, crypto payments, PCI data vaults, omnichannel solutions, fintech as a service, payments APIs, and headless ecommerce. Their contingency search practice has powered the payments and fintech ecosystem for over 25 years, recruiting go-to-market, sales, compliance, product, and operations talent.

Group W Partners operates across multiple locations in the United States, with offices in Chicago, San Diego, and Dallas, and is headquartered in San Marcos, California. The firm serves organisations across the payments and fintech sectors who require discretion, precision, and deep sector expertise when hiring mission-critical leadership. Clients choose Group W Partners for their domain knowledge, understanding of complex payments verticals, and ability to distinguish between specialist roles such as risk analysts versus risk strategists, or PayFac operations leaders versus merchant underwriting experts. The company's experience and industry fluency make them the go-to recruitment partner for companies building world-class teams in today's competitive talent marketplace.