How We Helped TradeTheNews Scale Its Financial Services Team with Speed and Quality
TradeTheNews needed to scale its financial services team in Dublin without losing quality or speed. The company relied on real time market intelligence and could not afford hiring mistakes. OnHires joined as an executive tech recruiting partner and built a structured hiring program. Together we focused on critical engineering, product, and go to market roles, aligned on evaluation criteria, and launched targeted sourcing campaigns in a competitive market.
Client:
TradeTheNews
Industry:
FinTech
Country:
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Service:
Executive Search
Background
TradeTheNews is a financial services company that provides real time audio and text market intelligence. Its platform supports professional traders, including hedge funds, sales traders, and proprietary trading firms. The service covers global equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities, and indices and delivers continuous, actionable information.
As demand for timely market data grew, TradeTheNews needed to expand its engineering, product, and go to market teams in Dublin. The company wanted a partner who could understand the financial domain, move fast in a competitive talent market, and still protect quality and security. TradeTheNews engaged OnHires as a long term talent partner to design and run a multiregional hiring program that would bring in high caliber specialists as quickly as possible.
Challenges
When TradeTheNews approached OnHires, the company was growing and needed to build capacity fast. At the same time, they faced several talent and process challenges.
Specialized talent scarcity. Experienced engineers and product leaders with financial market expertise were in high demand and received multiple offers.
Parallel openings across multiple functions. Engineering, product, and go to market roles were open at the same time, which increased complexity and workload for hiring managers.
Distributed decision making. Stakeholders were spread across regions, which slowed feedback loops and made it harder to keep everyone aligned.
Need for a consistent process. TradeTheNews required a clear hiring framework with defined stages, structured interviews, and transparent evaluation criteria for every role.
Quality and security concerns. The company needed to ensure that new hires would meet high standards for reliability, data sensitivity, and long term performance.
Solution
OnHires designed an end to end recruitment program tailored to the needs of TradeTheNews. The focus was on clarity, speed, and quality at every step of the hiring process.
Dedicated hiring operations. A recruiter and project lead from OnHires coordinated weekly hiring syncs, tracked pipelines, and removed operational blockers.
Calibrated scorecards and structured interviews. Together with TradeTheNews, we built role specific scorecards that focused on domain depth, execution skills, and collaboration, then aligned interviews around those signals.
Targeted sourcing and market mapping. We ran focused searches for candidates in Dublin and nearby markets and used multiple channels to reach talent with financial services experience.
Offer management and compensation localization. OnHires managed expectations on both sides, aligned on local market ranges, and guided candidates through the offer and acceptance process.
Onboarding coordination. We synchronized start dates, helped plan handovers, and ensured that new hires were integrated smoothly into the existing team.
Results
Through this partnership, OnHires helped TradeTheNews close critical roles across engineering, product, and go to market.
Senior Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer
Product Manager
Data Engineer or Analytics Engineer
Sales or Account Executive for financial services
Key outcomes:
8 successful hires across engineering, product, and go to market tracks.
Improved first round pass rates due to upfront calibration and clear scorecards.
More predictable and transparent hiring operations with weekly reporting.
By strengthening its hiring process and speeding up decision making, TradeTheNews was able to build a stronger financial services team in Dublin. The new hires helped the company support more clients, ship features faster, and maintain reliable real time coverage for professional traders.
“Working with OnHires gave us structure, speed, and access to the right talent. Their team understood our domain and treated hiring as a shared project, not a transaction.”
Founder
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