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# Breaking into Embedded Finance: Building Your Fintech Team from Zero with Morten Laufer
- URL: https://www.embeddedfinancereview.com/podcasts/breaking-into-embedded-finance-building-your-fintech-team-from-zero-with-morten-laufer/
- Published: 2025-10-30T08:42:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T20:30:31.000Z
- Description: How non-financial brands build fintech teams from zero: expert insights on hiring product managers, compliance roles, and attracting top talent.
- Author: Lars Markull
- Tags: Podcast, Expert Opinion

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Prefer to read? The full transcript of this episode is available [here](https://www.embeddedfinancereview.com/morten-laufer-fintech-hiring-transcript/).

**You've decided to build a Fintech product. Now comes the hard part: hiring the right team.**

In this episode, I sit down with [**Morten Laufer**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/morten-laufer-694a95180/?ref=embeddedfinancereview.com) from [**Nova Search**](https://www.nova-search.com/?ref=embeddedfinancereview.com), a Hamburg-based Fintech and embedded finance recruiter who specialises in helping non-financial brands build their teams. We discuss the real challenges of breaking into Fintech as an outsider and the costly mistakes companies make when hiring their first Fintech talent.

**What We Cover:**

- Why product managers should be your first hire and how to evaluate them
- The compliance gap: the critical role most companies overlook
- How to convince top Fintech talent to leave the bubble and join your company
- Compensation strategies that work without breaking your salary structure
- The #1 risk that scares candidates away (and how to address it)
- Retention tactics: keeping your team motivated beyond salary

**Building Your Fintech Team?**

If you're a non-financial brand making your first Fintech hires, I can help you design the right strategy and team structure, working in collaboration with Morten to find the right talent. [Reach out to discuss your needs.](mailto:lm@embeddedfinancereview.com?subject=Fintech%20Hiring)