Pitch N Hire's executive search helps Trondheim, Norway 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 Trondheim 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:
Trondheim is Norway's technology-and-research capital, anchored by NTNU — the country's largest science and engineering university — and the SINTEF research institute. This concentration of deep-tech, AI, robotics, cybernetics and sensor research feeds a startup and spin-off ecosystem far larger than the city's size would suggest, driving demand for research-grade software, machine-learning and embedded engineers.
Trondheim talent is unusually research-strong in AI/ML, robotics, cybernetics, computer vision and embedded systems, fed directly by NTNU's large computer-science and engineering programmes. Common skills span Python, C++, Rust and cloud, with deep academic-to-industry pipelines. The pool is high-calibre but numerically small, so scaling teams quickly often means extending capacity offshore for volume work.
Trondheim developer pay sits below Oslo but is competitive nationally — senior engineers often in the region of NOK 760k–1,050k per year, with premiums for AI/ML, robotics and research-grade skills. To scale engineering capacity affordably around a small, specialised pool, Trondheim firms frequently combine local hires with offshore India-based engineers sourced through PNH.
PNH supports Trondheim's deep-tech and AI-heavy employers with offshore engineering pods: vetted India-based developers and machine-learning engineers employed through an Employer of Record on CET-overlapping hours, so research-driven teams can expand delivery and productisation without exhausting a comparatively small, highly specialised local talent pool.
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Trondheim 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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