Delivering High-Impact DeFi Talent to Fuel Product & Engineering Growth on BNB Chain

The challenge

To meet aggressive growth objectives, Venus Protocol needed to make multiple business-critical hires across Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams. Internal teams faced challenges sourcing and qualifying candidates for deeply technical roles — particularly for a new Product team requiring candidates with rare expertise in financial engineering and DeFi mechanics.

The Solution

Spectrum Search executed a dual-track hiring strategy — high-volume recruitment for technical roles, alongside precision headhunting for the Product team. We worked closely with the CEO in multiple briefing sessions to deeply understand the ideal candidate profile, then sourced from a targeted pool of DeFi-native professionals and engineers with proven experience in financial protocol design.

The Outcome

Spectrum Search delivered both at scale and at depth — helping Venus build high-functioning, technically specialised teams fast, and enabling them to hit critical milestones in development and go-to-market strategy.

The Summary

  • 15 Solidity Engineers sourced, 10 shortlisted, 7 interviewed, 3 hired — 100% fill rate
  • 95% interview rate across all submitted candidates
  • Business-critical Product hires made from competitive, headhunted shortlist
  • 2-week turnaround for first shortlist
Working with the team at Spectrum Search has been great... They showed a real attention to detail, demonstrated a strong knowledge of DeFi and Blockchain, and delivered impressively fast. Given the short timescales and the quality of the network they tapped into, I wouldn’t hesitate to work with them again.

Venus Protocol

CEO, Venus Protocol