Pitch N Hire's executive search helps Nantes, France 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 Nantes 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:
Nantes is one of France's leading digital cities, with a dense web, SaaS and digital-services ecosystem grown around a collaborative developer community and events culture, plus expanding maritime, energy and industrial-tech sectors on the Atlantic coast. Consistent rankings as a top city for quality of life have kept engineers local, sustaining steady demand for web, product and data talent across an affordable, well-connected metro.
Nantes talent is strong in web and full-stack engineering, SaaS product development, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, Java and a growing cloud and DevOps community, fed by the University of Nantes, Centrale Nantes and Polytech. The developer scene is unusually community-driven and stable, with good retention and costs below Paris, though senior specialists in data and cloud can still stretch local supply during growth.
Nantes developer pay runs below Paris — senior engineers often around EUR 42k–EUR 62k gross — reflecting lower living costs and a retention-friendly market. Employers scaling product or platform work, or adding niche skills quickly, frequently combine local Nantes hires with offshore India-based engineers sourced and employed through PNH.
For Nantes web-agency and SaaS teams, PNH provides offshore engineering capacity — vetted India-based developers employed through an Employer of Record on Central European Time overlap — to expand product and platform delivery without stretching a community-driven local market or adding French headcount cost.
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Nantes 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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