Client profile
An Asian fintech company providing cashless payments and merchant products in Japan.
Business challenge
General product experience was not enough: the role required an integrated understanding of fintech, payment operations, merchant needs and the Japan market.
What TAC delivered
TAC mapped target companies and leaders across the payments value chain and built an assessment framework covering product strategy, payments expertise and cross-functional commercial collaboration.
Delivery method
Align business outcomes
Clarify growth, market-entry or delivery objectives before translating them into organisation and role priorities.
Map the talent market
Build target-company and candidate maps by sector, technology, location and talent movement to test actual supply.
Target and assess
Run confidential outreach around real business scenarios, assessing expertise, communication and organisation fit together.
Accelerate decisions
Shorten feedback and decision paths while coordinating interviews, offers and post-join role integration.
Delivery outcome
The company appointed a Product Director aligned with the brief, securing leadership for its Japan payments-product strategy and growth.
Organisation impact
The objective went beyond filling roles: TAC connected role design, market intelligence, decision speed and team collaboration to build organisation capability that could continue supporting the business.