Salary benchmarks
Current pay ranges by function and seniority, drawn from live mandate data and refreshed as the market moves, not from a survey filed a year ago.
See the benchmarksWhat We Do
Specialist search for financial services and fintech
PeopleCap is a talent acquisition practice first. We fill technology, product, risk, compliance, data, and front-office roles for banks, NBFCs, fintechs, and financial services GCCs across India. We do not take generalist mandates, and we do not pretend to be a full-service HR firm.
Fractional HR and custom compensation benchmarking are taken on as engagements when the scope is sizeable, in India or internationally, and evaluated case by case. Neither is the reason we exist, and both are done with the same domain depth as the search.
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Our core practice
Talent acquisition
Finding the right people for financial services and fintech roles
We source and qualify candidates for technology, product, risk, compliance, and business roles at financial services and fintech firms across India. Our work is success-fee based. You pay when a candidate joins.
We are not a generalist recruitment firm. Our sourcing is concentrated in the financial services talent market, which means our pipelines are warm, our candidate assessments are domain-informed, and our briefing conversations are efficient.
We operate as a hiring partner, not a vendor. That means tight feedback loops, transparent pipeline reporting, and a shared interest in getting the hire right.
Proof Seven case studies from our talent acquisition work
Who this is for HR leaders and functional heads at financial services and fintech firms actively hiring for technology and business roles. Engagement model: Success-fee based. You pay when a candidate joins.Explore talent acquisition -
Sizeable engagements
Fractional HR
Senior HR on a retainer, when the fit is right
We do not sell fractional HR, and we do not go looking for it. But when a firm we already know needs a senior HR business partner on a monthly retainer, rather than a full-time hire it is not ready for, we will look at it on its merits.
Where we take it on, the work is embedded and practical: performance and compensation structure, hiring process, manager capability, HR compliance, and people-strategy input to the leadership team. It is the same domain we search in, applied one layer up.
If that is what you are weighing, tell us the situation. If it is not a fit, we will say so plainly.
Who this is for Founders and HR heads at financial services and fintech firms who need senior HR thinking without a full-time hire, and who value that we will only take it if we can deliver. Engagement model: Monthly retainer, for sizeable engagements. Scope defined after a discovery conversation.See how fractional HR works
What we publish
Market intelligence, not a service to buy
We run a search desk, so we see live offer and joining data across financial services and fintech. We publish what we can from it. You do not have to engage us to use any of this.
Compensation intelligence
How to read a benchmark before you build an offer, why generic surveys mislead, and how we see compensation moving across the roles we search.
Read our viewHiring effectiveness
Where hiring processes leak candidates, from offer dropout to slow feedback, and what we have learned fixes them, as part of how we run a search.
Read our viewAlso from PeopleCap
What else we build
Search is the practice. These are the two things we build alongside it, each with its own home.
Capstan, by PeopleCap
The HRIS with no feature gates
A cloud HRIS: the complete core free for teams up to 20, with 14 modules you add only when you need them. Plans change limits, never features. Every price public. Your people, anywhere.
About CapstanLaunchpad
Job-linked training programmes
A place for candidates to find training programmes tied to real roles, with the full cost and the full selection journey shown before they apply.
About LaunchpadEngagement structure
How we engage
Search runs on a success-fee: you pay when a candidate joins. Fractional HR runs on a monthly retainer, and custom benchmarking on a fixed fee agreed up front.
Success-fee search
Our core work. You brief us on a role, we run the mandate, and you pay when a candidate joins. Tight feedback loops, transparent pipeline reporting, and a shared interest in the hire holding.
Fractional HR retainer
For sizeable engagements, in India and internationally. A senior HR business partner on a monthly retainer, with scope defined per engagement after a discovery conversation.
Our first conversation is always about understanding your situation, not about selling you a package. We do not work with every firm that approaches us. We take on work where we are confident we can deliver a meaningful outcome.
Send a brief
Have a role to fill in financial services or fintech?
Tell us what you are working on. We will tell you honestly whether and how we can help.
- Read by a senior member of the team, not an intake queue
- A reply within one working day: the realistic candidate pool, the pay band, the timeline, and whether we are the right partner
- Success-fee: you pay only when the candidate joins
Prefer the full form? Brief us on /engage/. Want to write a proper brief first? Use the two-page template. Candidates: this form reaches business development, not the talent team; share your profile here.