Pitch N Hire's executive search helps Cork, Ireland 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 Cork 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:
Cork is Ireland's second city and a distinctive industrial-tech centre, long anchored by one of Europe's densest clusters of pharmaceutical and medical-device manufacturing and increasingly home to enterprise-software, cloud and security engineering operations. This dual base of life-sciences manufacturing and IT sustains steady demand for software, data, automation and quality-systems engineers across the wider Munster region, at costs below the capital.
Cork talent leans toward enterprise and systems engineering, with strengths in cloud, security, data, .NET and Java, plus automation and validation skills feeding its pharma and med-device plants. A well-regarded local university and technological university supply a steady graduate pipeline, and retention is stronger than in Dublin, though senior specialist availability can still lead employers to supplement with offshore engineers.
Cork developer salaries generally run below Dublin levels, reflecting lower living costs, with senior engineers often around EUR 60k-85k. Teams that need to stretch budgets further, or add niche cloud and data skills quickly, combine local Cork hires with offshore India-based engineers sourced and employed through PNH to keep delivery on schedule.
For Cork's enterprise-software and life-sciences-adjacent IT teams, PNH provides an offshore extension of the team: vetted India-based engineers employed through an Employer of Record, working on Irish-hours overlap, to expand delivery capacity for cloud, data and application programmes without adding to local salary budgets or entity overhead.
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Cork 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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