Pitch N Hire's executive search helps Zagreb, Croatia 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 Zagreb business fills business-critical leadership roles with rigour rather than relying on inbound applications.
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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:
Zagreb is Croatia's capital and its clear technology centre, home to most of the country's software companies, R&D operations and best-known tech names. The city combines a strong enterprise-software and communications sector with a maturing startup scene, and its universities give it a steady flow of well-trained engineers. Because Croatia's overall talent pool is limited and export-oriented, Zagreb employers compete keenly for experienced developers, keeping the senior market tight.
Zagreb's talent is the most developed in Croatia, spanning JavaScript, Java, .NET, cloud, data and communications software, anchored by the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, a leading regional source of engineers. Graduate quality is high and English is widely spoken, but demand from home-grown scale-ups and foreign clients keeps senior people scarce — a common reason to add offshore delivery capacity.
Zagreb pays Croatia's highest developer salaries, and since euro adoption they are quoted in euros — senior engineers commonly in the region of EUR 40,000–75,000 gross per year, with premiums for cloud and specialist skills. For teams managing budgets or filling roles quickly, offshore augmentation from India can add comparable seniority at a lower blended rate alongside local Zagreb hires.
For Zagreb's scale-ups and software companies, PNH provides an offshore extension of the team: vetted India-based engineers employed through an Employer of Record, overlapping much of the working day with CET, to add delivery capacity for busy programmes without competing further in Zagreb's tight local market or carrying new local headcount cost.
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Zagreb 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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