Executive Search in Dublin
Pitch N Hire's executive search helps Dublin, 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 Dublin business fills business-critical leadership roles with rigour rather than relying on inbound applications.
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Executive Search: how it works for Dublin teams
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.
- Research-led mapping of the relevant leadership market
- Discreet approach to qualified passive candidates
- Structured, evidence-based senior assessment
- Suited to engineering leadership and business-critical roles
- Protects your employer brand and confidentiality
- Higher-quality, more comparable shortlists
How executive search works with Pitch N Hire
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Role & success profile
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. -
Market mapping
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. -
Discreet approach
Candidates are approached confidentially and professionally, protecting your employer brand and the candidates' current positions while gauging genuine interest and fit. -
Structured assessment
Interested candidates go through structured, evidence-based interviews and scorecards against the success profile, so the shortlist is comparable and defensible, not gut-feel. -
Shortlist to offer
You interview a small, high-quality shortlist; we support referencing, offer negotiation and a careful close, given how much a senior hire matters.
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Roles executive search covers
Research-led search suits senior and business-critical roles where a mis-hire is costly:
The Dublin hiring market for this role
Dublin is the anchor of Ireland's technology economy and the chosen EMEA headquarters for a striking concentration of global software, social, cloud and payments companies, clustered heavily around the Silicon Docks district by the Grand Canal. That density of large employers absorbs much of the local engineering supply, so demand for backend, cloud, data and platform talent consistently exceeds availability and compensation runs high across the city.
Dublin talent is highly international and product-mature, shaped by years inside large multinational engineering orgs, with deep pools in cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), backend Java and Python, data engineering, and site reliability. Because the biggest names compete for the same senior people, hiring is expensive and slow-moving locally, which is a common reason Dublin teams blend in offshore engineers for added capacity.
Cost & the offshore option in Dublin
Dublin commands Ireland's highest developer pay, with senior software engineers frequently in the region of EUR 70k-100k plus employer costs, driven upward by multinational competition and high living costs. Offshore augmentation from India typically delivers comparable seniority at a materially lower blended rate, which is why cost-conscious Dublin scale-ups run hybrid on-site plus offshore teams.
For Dublin founders and engineering leaders, the fastest route to added capacity is often an offshore pod: PNH sources and vets India-based engineers, overlaps several working hours with Irish time for daily collaboration, and handles employment and compliance through its Employer of Record, so there is no Irish entity to set up and no competition with the multinationals for scarce local hires.
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Ways to work with Pitch N Hire in Dublin
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Dublin team's stage and workload — and mix them as you scale:
Why Dublin companies choose Pitch N Hire
Vetted talent, fast
A pre-screened India talent pool means matched shortlists in days, not the months a local permanent hire can take.
You stay in control
You interview and choose every person; Pitch N Hire surfaces qualified candidates and handles the operational load.
Compliance handled
Offshore hires are employed through PNH's India Employer of Record — payroll, tax and statutory compliance are taken care of.
Lower blended cost
Building part of your team offshore keeps comparable seniority on the roster at a lower total cost than local-only hiring.
Overlapping hours
Engineers work on overlapping working hours and inside your tools and sprints — collaboration, not black-box outsourcing.
One partner, many needs
Staffing, recruitment, EOR and the ATS/interview software come from one provider, so hiring stays joined-up as you scale.
Executive Search in Dublin — FAQs
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