Hiring a Head of Security to strengthen a global crypto analytics platform.
How we helped Nansen secure experienced security leadership to protect its data and build resilience across its remote-first organisation.
9
days
From brief to offer acceptance.
48
hours
To submit the eventual hire.
1
Head of Security placed.
Cubiq took only nine working days to close a niche role with a tiny talent pool. They understood Nansen’s culture of transparency and speed, and delivered candidates who matched. That’s why they’re my go-to for DevOps and Security roles.
Joanna Yeoh
Principal People Partner
Nansen
Headquartered in Singapore, Nansen is a leading crypto analytics company that helps investors, institutions and developers make sense of blockchain data.
Industry
Blockchain Analytics
Disciplines
DevOps, DevSecOps
Company Size at Partnership
≈100 Employees
Growth Stage at Partnership
Series B
Brief
Nansen partnered with us to secure a Head of Security, a senior hire responsible for building and leading the company’s global security function.
They operate a remote-first model and handle high volumes of sensitive blockchain data, so Nansen needed someone who could define security strategy and apply it across its infrastructure and product.
The role required a balance of leadership experience and crypto-native experience, making it one of the company’s most strategically significant hires of the year.
Challenges
The ideal candidate needed to bring extensive security leadership experience, ideally from directly within the blockchain intelligence space, and be capable of starting within a month.
As a remote-first company headquartered in Singapore, Nansen faced an additional challenge in ensuring competitive local compensation across multiple geographies. With this being open to a global talent pool, benchmarking and positioning the role accurately required careful guidance to stay aligned with candidate expectations.
The preferred candidate was already in a process with another company, which meant speed and candidate experience was extremely important.
Approach
- The search began with a targeted mapping of security and engineering leaders across blockchain intelligence, data infrastructure, and Web3 security platforms.
- Within 48 hours of briefing, we introduced a candidate whose background (fifteen years across AI and security, including five in blockchain analytics) perfectly matched the brief.
- We maintained direct, transparent communication between all parties, managing interviews and feedback loops across time zones.
- We also provided market benchmarking guidance, helping Nansen position the role competitively to the candidate in a global context while preserving their own internal equity.
- The process ran smoothly from start to finish, with a signed offer secured in just nine working days – a Denmark-based security expert.
- The new hire has since integrated seamlessly, attended a global company retreat, and begun building out Nansen’s internal security capability.
Headquartered in Singapore, Nansen is a leading crypto analytics company that helps investors, institutions and developers make sense of blockchain data.
Industry
Blockchain Analytics
Disciplines
DevOps, DevSecOps
Company Size at Partnership
≈100 Employees
Growth Stage at Partnership
Series B
Brief
Nansen partnered with us to secure a Head of Security, a senior hire responsible for building and leading the company’s global security function.
They operate a remote-first model and handle high volumes of sensitive blockchain data, so Nansen needed someone who could define security strategy and apply it across its infrastructure and product.
The role required a balance of leadership experience and crypto-native experience, making it one of the company’s most strategically significant hires of the year.
Challenges
The ideal candidate needed to bring extensive security leadership experience, ideally from directly within the blockchain intelligence space, and be capable of starting within a month.
As a remote-first company headquartered in Singapore, Nansen faced an additional challenge in ensuring competitive local compensation across multiple geographies. With this being open to a global talent pool, benchmarking and positioning the role accurately required careful guidance to stay aligned with candidate expectations.
The preferred candidate was already in a process with another company, which meant speed and candidate experience was extremely important.
Approach
- The search began with a targeted mapping of security and engineering leaders across blockchain intelligence, data infrastructure, and Web3 security platforms.
- Within 48 hours of briefing, we introduced a candidate whose background (fifteen years across AI and security, including five in blockchain analytics) perfectly matched the brief.
- We maintained direct, transparent communication between all parties, managing interviews and feedback loops across time zones.
- We also provided market benchmarking guidance, helping Nansen position the role competitively to the candidate in a global context while preserving their own internal equity.
- The process ran smoothly from start to finish, with a signed offer secured in just nine working days – a Denmark-based security expert.
- The new hire has since integrated seamlessly, attended a global company retreat, and begun building out Nansen’s internal security capability.
Results and impact.
The search completed in nine working days, from brief to signed offer.
Local benchmarks helped Nansen offer a competitive package in line with market expectations for a remote-first hire.
The first candidate introduced was the one hired, showing how a clear brief and close communication supports time-to-hire.
The new Head of Security has since embedded quickly, and begun shaping the wider security function.