Executive Search in Ho Chi Minh City
Pitch N Hire's executive search helps Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 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 Ho Chi Minh City business fills business-critical leadership roles with rigour rather than relying on inbound applications.
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Executive Search: how it works for Ho Chi Minh City 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 Ho Chi Minh City hiring market for this role
Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, is Vietnam's commercial capital and largest technology employer, anchored by the sprawling Quang Trung Software City park and dense clusters of outsourcing vendors, product startups and fintech firms across District 1, District 7 and Thu Duc. Homegrown names such as VNG, Tiki and MoMo sit beside multinationals' delivery centres. The concentration of software-services and consumer-tech work keeps demand for engineers, QA and delivery talent consistently high.
The city's talent pool is Vietnam's broadest, strong in JavaScript, Java, PHP, .NET, mobile and cloud, with growing depth in data and fintech engineering shaped by its outsourcing and consumer-app economy. Universities such as Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (Bach Khoa) and the University of Science feed a large graduate pipeline, yet fierce competition among vendors for mid and senior engineers makes offshore augmentation a practical way to add capacity.
Cost & the offshore option in Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City commands Vietnam's highest developer pay, with senior software engineers often in the region of VND 700 million to 1.3 billion gross per year, and premiums for cloud, data and fintech skills. For teams stretching budgets or filling volume roles quickly, offshore augmentation from India can supply comparable seniority at a competitive blended rate alongside local hires.
For Ho Chi Minh City scale-ups and vendors, PNH provides an offshore extension of the team: vetted India-based engineers employed through an Employer of Record, overlapping most of the working day with Indochina Time, to add delivery capacity for busy programmes without competing further in the city's tight local market.
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Ways to work with Pitch N Hire in Ho Chi Minh City
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Ho Chi Minh City team's stage and workload — and mix them as you scale:
Why Ho Chi Minh City 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 Ho Chi Minh City — FAQs
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