Pitch N Hire's executive search helps Leuven, Belgium companies hire senior engineering and leadership roles — heads of engineering, architects, and functional leaders — through a discreet, research-led process. PNH maps the market, approaches passive candidates and runs structured assessment, so a Leuven business fills business-critical leadership roles with rigour rather than relying on inbound applications.
Executive search is a targeted, research-led method for hiring senior and hard-to-fill leadership roles, where the best candidates are usually employed and not actively applying. Instead of posting a job and waiting, Pitch N Hire maps the relevant talent market, discreetly approaches qualified passive candidates, and runs structured, evidence-based assessment against the role's real requirements. This is used for engineering leadership, architecture, and specialist senior roles where a wrong hire is expensive and confidentiality matters. PNH's search process pairs experienced recruiters with structured interview tooling to keep the assessment consistent and defensible, whether the role is based locally or leads an offshore team.
We work with you to define the mandate — responsibilities, the outcomes the leader must deliver, and the competencies and experience that predict success in your context.
PNH researches and maps the relevant talent market, building a longlist of qualified people in comparable roles at comparable organisations — including those not actively looking.
Candidates are approached confidentially and professionally, protecting your employer brand and the candidates' current positions while gauging genuine interest and fit.
Interested candidates go through structured, evidence-based interviews and scorecards against the success profile, so the shortlist is comparable and defensible, not gut-feel.
You interview a small, high-quality shortlist; we support referencing, offer negotiation and a careful close, given how much a senior hire matters.
Research-led search suits senior and business-critical roles where a mis-hire is costly:
Leuven is a compact university city with an outsized deep-tech footprint, anchored by KU Leuven and imec, the world-leading nanoelectronics and semiconductor research institute. This concentration spins out startups in chip design, AI, health-tech and advanced software, and attracts R&D labs from global technology firms. Demand skews toward highly specialised engineering — embedded, AI/ML, chip and research software — in a notably small local labour market.
Leuven talent is among the most research-intensive in Belgium, with rare depth in embedded systems, AI/ML, semiconductor and scientific engineering fed directly by KU Leuven and imec spin-outs. English dominates its international research teams. Because the pool is small and highly specialised, competition for senior deep-tech and platform engineers is fierce, and general software roles often look beyond the city for scale.
Leuven developer pay is competitive for its deep-tech profile, with senior engineers often in the region of EUR 60k-90k plus employer charges, and premiums for embedded, AI and chip-adjacent skills. To scale platform and product engineering affordably alongside scarce local specialists, Leuven firms frequently combine local hires with offshore India-based engineers sourced through PNH.
PNH supports Leuven's deep-tech and startup employers with offshore engineering pods: vetted India-based developers and data engineers employed through an Employer of Record on CET-overlapping hours, to expand product, platform and integration delivery without competing for an exceptionally small pool of local specialist talent.
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Leuven team's stage and workload — and mix them as you scale:
A pre-screened India talent pool means matched shortlists in days, not the months a local permanent hire can take.
You interview and choose every person; Pitch N Hire surfaces qualified candidates and handles the operational load.
Offshore hires are employed through PNH's India Employer of Record — payroll, tax and statutory compliance are taken care of.
Building part of your team offshore keeps comparable seniority on the roster at a lower total cost than local-only hiring.
Engineers work on overlapping working hours and inside your tools and sprints — collaboration, not black-box outsourcing.
Staffing, recruitment, EOR and the ATS/interview software come from one provider, so hiring stays joined-up as you scale.
Staffing and recruitment services, the applicant tracking software, and hiring resources — all in one place.
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