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Confabs

Confabs is a German boutique recruitment agency specializing in sourcing and placing highly skilled IT professionals from abroad into companies across Germany. Founded in 2010, the firm focuses on efficient, success based hiring and only charges a fee when a candidate is successfully hired, with flexible installment options available. Confabs manages the entire process for employers, from an initial position briefing through targeted search using its network, careful screening and technical vetting, interview coordination, and offer management, to onboarding support. The team also coaches candidates on the German job market and supports practical steps around relocation and settling in Germany so that both sides experience a smooth start. The company fills a wide spectrum of roles including software engineers across .NET, Java, C and C++, JavaScript and PHP, mobile developers for iOS and Android, DevOps engineers, IT administrators, IT architects, product owners, QA and testing managers, UX and designers, consultants, and leadership positions such as CTOs and IT team leads. Confabs partners with digital native and technology driven businesses across domains such as e commerce, web and mobile solutions, security, cloud and virtualization, artificial intelligence, business intelligence, blockchain and crypto, machine learning, and data science. Its client list includes recognized names such as Delivery Hero, trivago, Project A, Home24, Userlike, Reservix, WirKaufenDeinAuto.de, qualityminds, Centigrade, and others. Operating nationwide, Confabs supports hiring in major hubs including Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Nuremberg, Dresden, Bremen, Darmstadt, and Wolfsburg. Led by experienced consultants including Marek Scheier and Jeannette Scheier, Confabs combines market insight, rigorous selection, and candidate coaching to help startups and established enterprises build strong engineering and IT teams quickly with international talent that adds new perspectives and complements local capabilities. Confabs is based in Rangsdorf near Berlin and is trusted by companies seeking a reliable partner to find the IT experts they need.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceCloud ComputingTelecomTechnology & Digital

HQBerlin, Germany

Korneli Unger Personalberatung

Korneli Unger Personalberatung GmbH (KUP) is a Berlin based executive search and direct placement firm founded in 2005 and dedicated to the healthcare and social care economy. From its office at Neue Blumenstrasse 24 in the heart of the capital, the boutique team supports critical hiring needs for hospitals, rehabilitation and university clinics, municipal and faith based provider groups, international healthcare operators, welfare associations, medical service centers, and organizations across medical devices, pharmaceuticals, digital health, and related services. Clients rely on KUP for end to end search across senior functional and executive roles, including Chief Executive Officer, VP of Sales, Commercial Director, Head of Sales Digital Health, Head of Technology Management, corporate IT and digitalization leaders, Product Management heads, Area Sales Managers in medtech, Managing Director for medical schools, clinic management (for example urology), and chief physician appointments such as neurosurgery. KUP emphasizes a highly personalized, discreet, and quality driven process in which personality and cultural fit are decisive, aligning with the firm belief that sustained success in healthcare depends on leaders who can navigate complex clinical, regulatory, and operational environments. Drawing on long standing market and sector expertise, KUP advises both clients and candidates through structured consulting modules that clarify the role profile, selection criteria, and decision milestones, while ensuring a transparent and efficient experience. For clients, the firm acts as a professional partner in demanding recruitment projects and executive search; for candidates, it provides guidance for the next step in their career, from confidential exploration to offer negotiation and onboarding. Two decades of focus in healthcare and life sciences, combined with deep networks in medtech, pharma, and digital health, enable KUP to deliver shortlists that balance leadership capability, domain expertise, and measurable impact on care delivery and organizational performance.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQBerlin, Germany

BoardsideExecutiveTransition

Boardside Executive Transition GmbH is a boutique executive advisory and search partner based in Potsdam, Germany, that helps senior leaders navigate pivotal career transitions and enables organizations to make better leadership decisions. The firm blends career coaching and practical counseling with integrated leadership assessment and development delivered through its BoardAssess approach, co-created with long-standing colleague Kathrin Schulte. Using structured diagnostics and recognized tools such as HOGAN, Boardside provides deep insight into personality, leadership potential, motivators, experiences, and possible career-limiting tendencies, translating findings into actionable development plans that strengthen leadership effectiveness and cultural alignment. Founded and led by Dr. Berit Bretthauer, an experienced coach and executive search partner, the company works with executives who are considering a new role, exploring a new industry, or reframing their long-term impact and direction. Clients can begin with an initial consultation to clarify objectives and experience the method, then progress through tailored programs that may include personal brand and narrative development, preparation for interviews and transitions, and ongoing decision support. For hiring organizations, Boardside supports executive selection and team development with calibrated assessments, feedback and alignment sessions, and succession-focused advisory designed to drive performance today and build leadership pipelines for tomorrow. With a particular focus on the healthcare and life sciences ecosystem, the firm serves stakeholders across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and provider environments, while remaining able to advise beyond those sectors when a generalist executive lens is appropriate. Operating in German and English and grounded in real leadership experience, Boardside emphasizes clarity, measurable outcomes, and a confidential, high-touch partnership across executive search, assessment, and leadership development from its offices at Mangerstrasse 26, 14467 Potsdam.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsMental Health CareVeterinarySenior Executives

HQBerlin, Germany

WolfByte

WolfByte is a boutique recruitment partner dedicated to the Microsoft cloud ecosystem, helping organizations across the DACH region secure hard to reach talent in Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Founded and led by Cedric Groebsch, the firm brings more than seven years of hands on specialization and a track record of 100 plus successful placements, combining technical understanding with a personal, structured search process. WolfByte focuses on passive candidates who rarely engage with job boards, leveraging a curated network of more than 8,000 German speaking professionals and direct outreach via phone, email and LinkedIn to surface candidates who match both technical requirements and cultural context. The firm delivers both success based permanent recruitment and retained search for sensitive or business critical roles, underpinned by rigorous screening and assessment that evaluates skills, motivation and environment fit. Typical mandates span cloud infrastructure and platform operations, modern workplace and endpoint management, security, DevOps and automation, and consulting and architecture roles, including administrators, engineers, consultants and architects. Clients benefit from market informed advisory on process design and candidate experience, with shortlists typically assembled within 2 to 5 days depending on scope and availability. Candidates receive confidential, no cost support including career sparring, salary benchmarking and interview preparation. Compliance and delivery in Switzerland are ensured through long standing local partners holding the required SECO authorization for placement and personnel leasing, enabling professional, lawful engagement. WolfByte maintains an emphasis on long term fit and stays engaged beyond signature to help ensure smooth onboarding and retention. Reflecting its values, the firm contributes to tree planting via tree nation for each review and successful placement. The result is a precise, efficient and human centered search experience that complements internal recruiting and consistently delivers quality outcomes.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceCloud ComputingTelecomTechnology & Digital

HQBerlin, Germany

Metschurat Consulting

Metschurat Consulting is a boutique executive recruiting and talent advisory firm partnering with family offices, venture capital funds, and their portfolio companies worldwide. Headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, the firm brings a decade of hands-on recruiting experience helping investors and founders hire critical talent from analyst level through C-level. Combining retained executive search with flexible interim recruiting and embedded RPO support, Metschurat Consulting adapts to each client’s operating model and hiring velocity. Companies rely on the firm to stand up or optimize their talent function end to end: implementing and managing modern ATS platforms such as Personio, Greenhouse, Salesforce, Bamboo, and SmartRecruiters; building rigorous interview processes; coordinating hiring manager schedules; running candidate debriefs; and coaching stakeholders to consistent decision making. For high-growth tech startups inside VC portfolios, the team crafts compelling job descriptions, designs targeted distribution strategies, and avoids wasted spend on ineffective job ads by focusing efforts where top talent actually engages. For investment organizations, they map markets with discretion, cultivate relationships with high-potential operators and investors, and present shortlists that balance track record, cultural fit, and long-term potential. The approach is deliberately high-touch and research-led: every search starts with a crisp success profile, a data-backed sourcing plan, and tight weekly reporting on funnel health, time-to-slate, and time-to-offer. Whether the need is a permanent leadership hire, several key individual contributors, or an urgent interim build-out, clients gain a single accountable partner who turns over every stone to get the hire right the first time. Founded and led by Simon Metschurat, the firm operates globally in English and German markets, upholds strict confidentiality, and is known for pragmatic execution, clear communication, and results that compound as portfolios scale.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementIT InfrastructureTelecommunicationsCloud Computing

HQBerlin, Germany

BargoSearch

Based in the heart of Berlin, BargoSearch is a boutique recruitment partner delivering professional end-to-end recruiting services across Europe. The firm collaborates closely with leadership and hiring teams to map talent gaps, define the exact skills required, and shape search strategies that balance speed, quality, and culture fit. With a functional focus on finance, data, and legal, BargoSearch supplies high caliber white collar and executive talent for financial services institutions, professional services firms, and corporate functions. The team invests meaningful time with each client to understand the business model, operating culture, and long term objectives, then represents that story credibly in the market to attract the right candidates. Equally candidate centric, BargoSearch provides tailored coaching throughout the hiring journey, from career planning and CV refinement to interview preparation, offer navigation, and onboarding support, helping professionals make confident, well informed moves. Services span permanent recruitment, targeted executive search and interim mandates, and embedded talent partnership where BargoSearch strengthens in house hiring processes and elevates the overall candidate experience. Clients value the firm's integrity, expertise, professionalism, and customer centric approach, as well as transparent communication and commitment to results. Whether building a first finance function, upgrading data capabilities, or adding critical legal and compliance expertise, BargoSearch delivers shortlists that emphasize capability, potential, and cultural alignment. Its partnership model includes discovery workshops, role scoping, market mapping, proactive sourcing, structured screening, rigorous reference checks, and coordinated offer management, ensuring a smooth, well managed process for all stakeholders. For clients seeking scalable support, BargoSearch can operate as an extension of the internal TA function to refine employer branding, interview frameworks, and candidate communications, improving efficiency and the overall experience. The firm maintains a trusted network across Germany and the wider EU, engaging both active and passive candidates and guiding them with honest feedback and practical insight into market trends, compensation, and career pathways. This consultative approach has earned lasting relationships built on mutual trust and measurable outcomes.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPOBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Finance & Accounting

HQBerlin, Germany

MettleSearch

MettleSearch, also known as MTL Search, is a no nonsense talent advisory and global headhunting boutique under MTL Holding UG based in Berlin, founded in 2016. The firm specializes in solving complex and confidential hiring challenges for senior and specialist roles across core corporate and technology functions. Operating globally and across industries including technology, financial services, and retail, MettleSearch blends world class direct search with pragmatic talent advisory and actionable talent intelligence. Its Search practice focuses on active sourcing, confidential outreach, candidate mapping, introductions, rigorous screening, structured assessments, and offer negotiation to secure strategically important hires. The Advisory practice provides fractional talent leadership, including an in house Head of Talent on an interim or part time basis, to design talent strategy, build assessment frameworks, run corporate culture workshops, and set up hiring infrastructure such as an ATS or HRS. The Intel practice delivers market analysis, talent mapping, and talent assessments to help clients understand competitive landscapes and make data led decisions even before a role is opened. Engagement models are flexible and transparent: a predictable monthly retainer (starting at EUR 3,900 with an annual subscription), an hourly model for project based work (from EUR 150 per hour subject to prepayment thresholds), and a commission based option at 25 percent per hire as part of a hybrid retainer setup. Startups and SMEs use MettleSearch as an on demand fractional TA team, while larger enterprises rely on the firm to augment in house TA during peak workloads or for discreet searches. The process is optimized for speed, creativity, and precision, with a typical first viable candidate profile presented within 7 days, and with continuous tracking of key metrics such as time to first introduction, time to offer, and cost per hire. Backed by consultants with hands on expertise in leadership, product and technology, sales and marketing, and people and finance, MettleSearch is committed to uncovering the right candidates when others give up and to making every hiring decision better informed.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceFinTechFashion & ApparelFood & Beverage

HQHong Kong, China

Cherry-Picking @ FMK Solutions

Cherry-Picking @ FMK Solutions is a boutique executive search and leadership recruiting firm dedicated to Corporate Security (non IT) and Cyber Security across Europe. Founded in 2020 by Heidi and Michel Kirsche, the firm is built on the belief that the small stories behind careers and companies make the biggest difference. FMK Solutions partners with startups, Mittelstand and Hidden Champions as well as MDAX, DAX and Fortune 500 organizations to appoint high impact specialists and leaders who shape enterprise security, resilience and risk posture. Each mandate begins with strict quality gates: a shared working basis with the client, clear data protection, a detailed project briefing with all decision makers, and accountable, committed points of contact. The team favors an early no over polished promises, ensuring time is invested only where objectives, expectations and resources are realistic. FMK Solutions conducts confidential, targeted headhunting and operates both in the visible and the hidden market, frequently under mutual NDAs for sensitive succession or build out needs. The firm acts as a brand, culture and values ambassador, delivering curated shortlists and smooth interview orchestration. On request, they add reference checks, background checks or relationship mapping, and provide planned onboarding advice to accelerate early impact, for example during CISO transitions. Their coverage spans corporate security domains such as investigations, fraud and compliance, crisis management and physical security, and the full cyber spectrum including information security leadership and key specialists. Candidate care is central: information moves only with explicit consent and under GDPR, and the process is personal, discreet and free of AI spam or robotic outreach. Clients rely on FMK Solutions to quietly build or upgrade security teams, execute succession plans, and align leadership capability with maturity, budget, reporting lines and future goals, resulting in sustainable, long term hires that protect assets and enable business growth.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceCloud ComputingTelecomTechnology & Digital

HQBerlin, Germany

Growth For Impact

Growth For Impact is a global platform that helps businesses solve ESG and sustainability challenges by matching them with the right independent experts, fast. Operating across major hubs such as San Francisco, New York, London, Singapore, and leading Indian metros, the firm curates a pre vetted network of sustainability consultants and accredited ESG assurance assessors with experience at top consulting firms, multinationals, and development organizations. Clients use Growth For Impact to scope initiatives, find specialized talent within hours, and deliver measurable results across measurement, strategy, and progress workstreams. Typical engagements include life cycle assessments and product footprinting, materiality and double materiality assessments, carbon accounting and Scope 1, 2, and 3 baselining, science based target setting, stakeholder engagement, ESG reporting aligned to CSRD, GRI, TCFD, IFRS sustainability standards, and CDP, as well as ESG communications and change management. The platform also connects companies with independent, accredited third party ESG auditors to prepare for limited or reasonable assurance, with assessors matched to jurisdiction, framework, and reporting cycle. Growth For Impact supports complex compliance needs including BRSR, CSDDD, CBAM, and EPR, and helps exporters and supply chains respond to customer due diligence requests. With 70+ experts covering 30+ industries across four continents, the service is built for speed and precision: share requirements, get a curated short list within 48 hours, align on scope, budget, and timelines, and start delivery. Use cases span manufacturing and engineering (product LCAs, supplier footprints, CBAM readiness), real estate and construction (embodied carbon and decarbonization planning), and retail and consumer goods (sustainable packaging, claims substantiation, and ESG dashboards). In addition to on demand specialists for projects, the company supports hiring needs via its climate tech jobs board and can assist with permanent recruitment when capabilities need to be built in house. By combining deep domain expertise with a rigorous matching process, Growth For Impact reduces time to value, improves audit readiness, and helps organizations scale sustainability outcomes with confidence.

Contract StaffingSOW/ProjectsPermanent RecruitmentAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseArchitectureInterior DesignFashion & Apparel

HQBerlin, Germany

Golden Heads Kröhne AND Schmidt-Roy

Golden Heads Kroehne & Schmidt-Roy GbR is a boutique executive search partner for media companies, serving clients from its bases in Berlin and Munich. Founded in 2018 by industry insiders Jochen Kroehne and Antoine Schmidt-Roy, the firm is dedicated to leadership and critical white collar hires across the media value chain, including creation, production, and distribution, whether digital, linear, on air, or online. Golden Heads operates with the conviction that the right people ultimately determine a companys success, and brings to each mandate a rare combination of sector fluency, personal networks, and disciplined process. Their methodology is clear and efficient: they listen first, define the exact scope and ideal personality, refine the brief into a precise profile, conduct a targeted and confidential search, and after multi round interviews and thorough reference checks introduce the three most compelling finalists, backed by a concise management summary that maps each candidate to the brief. The commercial model is transparent and aligned, with a pre agreed fixed fee structure and payment largely on success, complemented only by a small service charge. Jochen contributes decades of leadership in private TV, pay TV, and digital channels, including interim mandates and the build out of multiple broadcasters, while Antoine adds deep experience in digital media operations, VOD, and platform distribution; together they offer two complementary generations of media management expertise. The firm recruits executives and senior specialists for editorial, commercial, and technical functions, such as general management, programming, content, ad sales, marketing, product, data and analytics, and technology leadership. Broadcasters, production companies, publishers, OTT services, and digital media ventures engage Golden Heads when they need a search partner who speaks the same language as their teams and stakeholders. True to its ethos, media professionals search media professionals, delivering faster, more reliable hiring outcomes.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsPerforming Arts (Music, Theatre)Visual ArtsMuseums & Galleries

HQBerlin, Germany

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