Pitch N Hire's executive search helps Braga, Portugal 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 Braga 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:
Braga, in the Minho region of northern Portugal, has grown into a notable technology and electronics centre well beyond its size, driven by a close partnership between the University of Minho and industry. A significant automotive-electronics and R&D presence — including one of the region's largest engineering employers, Bosch — sits alongside a rising software and IoT scene, creating steady demand for embedded, software and electronics engineers across the wider Minho area.
Braga talent is distinctive for its embedded-systems, electronics, IoT and R&D strength alongside general software skills in C/C++, Java and Python, fed directly by the University of Minho's engineering and informatics programmes. The pool is smaller than Lisbon's or Porto's but high-quality and industry-connected, so specialist and general software roles alike can be competitive, prompting offshore support for scale.
Braga developer pay is among Portugal's most affordable — senior software engineers often around €35k–€55k gross, reflecting lower regional costs. Employers scaling software or R&D delivery, or protecting scarce embedded specialists for core work, frequently blend local Braga hires with offshore India-based engineers through PNH to widen the pool and manage blended cost.
For Braga's electronics and software employers, PNH complements the local embedded and R&D base by taking on general and application-software delivery offshore: vetted India-based engineers employed via an Employer of Record on hours overlapping Braga's time zone, freeing scarce local specialists to focus on core hardware and research work.
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Braga 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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