We place the people who build what comes next.
We fill your key positions from DACH to Spain.
Direct & Executive Search for Tech, Green-Tech, Industrial Tech and Green Building. For the companies building our future.
We find the leaders, senior experts and specialists who drive your growth. An executive search consultancy with people on the ground in Barcelona, Munich and Frankfurt, connected in both markets and at home in both business cultures.
More than 200 leadership and key roles filled
In Tech, Green-Tech, Industrial Tech and Green Building. Working internationally with a focus on DACH and Spain.
First shortlist in 14 to 30 days
Robust, reasoned and with our personal assessment of fit and risk.
A shortlist of five suitable candidates, contractually guaranteed
Otherwise we keep searching at no extra cost.
A selection of the companies that have entrusted us with their key appointments. Further references on request.
“Efficient, successful and profitable. I particularly value the fast, efficient and successful filling of even very challenging positions, always with very good profiles.”
A job ad brings you applicants. Not the best choice.
Even a good job ad attracts good candidates. Above all, those who are actively looking. They are rarely everyone who could be a fit. Most of the best candidates are not actively looking at all.
We find the best people for you, wherever they are. Through direct search and networks in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain. Across borders, in the language of each market. On the ground in Barcelona, Munich and Frankfurt, with a network built over more than a decade.
You are entering a new market.
First leaders on the ground, go-to-market specialists, or senior engineers and the people responsible for your technical projects in the target market. These hires need the best candidates. We know who really carries a market build-up and where they are today.
You are already there and want to grow.
Your team and site in the target country are in place and need specialist reinforcement, a successor at leadership level or more momentum in a growth phase. We show you all your options, not just the part of the market that happens to be looking.
You are hiring in your home market.
Key roles in Tech, Green-Tech, Industrial Tech and Green Building. Even without an international angle, in DACH and Spain, when the role is demanding enough that advertising alone will not produce the best shortlist.
Your terms do not match the market.
Then we search where the specialists are who do fit your conditions and requirements. Tech talent from Spain and across Europe for roles in DACH, remote or with relocation, in the language your team speaks.
Fixed fees. Guaranteed results that fit. Performance-based terms.
You pay a fixed fee and get guaranteed results. To deliver them, we work with a profile of the person you need rather than a bare job description, with market knowledge rather than guesswork, and with the target companies where the best people are. Our in-house search technology finds people even where business networks and databases run out. We support you personally, from defining the profile to well beyond onboarding.
Single mandate
For the one key role that has to be right. Exclusive, personally led, with guaranteed results that fit.
Search as a Service
For growth peaks or higher demand. Several roles in parallel or temporary capacity, on a freelance or interim basis, with the same methodology and the same technology.
Fixed fee, agreed before we start, staged by result and performance
First robust shortlist typically within 14 to 30 days
A shortlist of five suitable candidates, contractually guaranteed
Support through selection, assessment and contract negotiation
Support beyond onboarding and probation, with retention analysis and feedback meetings
Free replacement guarantee
One point of contact, from the first conversation to the last, in the language of your business culture
Which model fits depends on your needs and your timeline. We discuss terms openly in our first conversation.
“Miguel Kintscher has brought us great team members with real precision, who fit our cybersecurity company Friendly Captcha perfectly, both professionally and culturally. Working with Miguel is always appreciative, reliable and personal, a recruiting partner I recommend wholeheartedly at any time. Besides the speed and quality, I was particularly impressed by the overall process consulting and the support with employee retention beyond onboarding.”
We do not accept a mandate unless we are convinced we can deliver it.
The fields where today decides how we will live tomorrow.
Energy, technology, industry and the way we build are reshaping the world in which we all work and live. We find the people driving this at the front line, and with whom your company grows. We search where we know the markets, the target companies and the people, from start-ups and scale-ups to established mid-sized companies and corporations.
Green-Tech
Photovoltaics, agrivoltaics, wind energy, storage, grid and hydrogen. Plus water, environmental and circular economy technology. This is where the corridor between Spain and DACH is densest. We know that project development, EPC and operations call for entirely different people, and we recruit accordingly.
Tech
Software, SaaS, cloud and AI engineering, data and infrastructure. From established SMEs and providers expanding their technology leadership, through growing start-ups, to funded scale-ups building their first market abroad. We distinguish between those who build systems and those who scale them.
Industrial Tech
Industrial technology, automation, robotics, mechanical and plant engineering. Roles responsible for plants, projects and sites, where technology meets deadline pressure and accountability.
Green Building & Infrastructure
Building services engineering, sustainable construction and energy efficiency, ESG across existing portfolios and transactions, plus data centres and network infrastructure. Our clients include building services main contractors and engineering consultancies, developers and project managers, property, asset and facility management, and real estate transaction firms. We know that a building calls for entirely different people in design, construction, operation and transaction, and we recruit accordingly.
The people behind future tech, energy, industry and buildings.
The positions on which everything really depends.
We fill roles where a wrong decision costs months. From the first hire in a new market to the specialists who deliver.
Leadership and market
From Country and General Manager, through Market Entry, Go-to-Market, Sales and Business Development Leads, to branch management and managing directors. People who do not just manage a market, but build it.
Technology and engineering
CTO, Head of Engineering, Lead and Senior Engineers, cloud, data and AI specialists, chief engineers and technical project leads. Profiles with real technical depth: winning them over and assessing them properly takes a conversation grounded in a genuine understanding of the role and its environment.
Operations and projects
Senior project management, service and commissioning management, procurement, supply chain, quality and compliance, Head of Operations. Responsibility for plants, projects, deadlines and teams, often across borders.
From Senior Expert through team and division leadership to VP and C-level.
Old-school direct search. With today's technology.
The craft has not changed: understanding the company and what it needs, knowing the target companies and markets, having a network and approaching people directly. What has changed are the tools. The best candidates are not looking, are not on any job board and rarely respond to ads. Our in-house search technology identifies people independently of any platform, even where business networks and databases have nothing more to offer. That is where our work really makes the difference.
1. Sharpen the profile
Whether the profile is new or existing: after a set-up workshop of 60 to 90 minutes, we know what your company and this role really need. Not what the job description says.
2. Map the market
Target companies by name, specific target people, plus a market overview, salary levels and reasons to move. We work from the target company, not from a search form.
3. Identify and approach
We find the people in the target companies, whether or not they are visible. Then we approach them personally, in their language and the language of their market, led by Miguel Kintscher himself. Not by a junior, not by mass email.
4. Shortlist with assessment
Robust and reasoned, with a clear view on fit, motivation to move and risk. Even when the assessment is uncomfortable.
5. Secure the decision
Aptitude diagnostics and tailored assessments when the decision carries real weight.
6. To signature and beyond
Support through contract negotiation, onboarding and beyond probation, with retention analysis and feedback meetings. For us, a placement only counts when it lasts.
“Mr Kintscher has been supporting us successfully with recruitment for some time. Thanks to his very good analysis of our needs and his comprehensive support throughout the entire recruiting process, Mr Kintscher manages to deliver precisely targeted candidates and to steer and support the process successfully. With his support, we have already made several hires.”
When you first want to know what is possible.
Not every question starts with a mandate. Sometimes the first question is whether a role can be filled at all, what it will cost and where these people are.
Market map and salary benchmark
Who is a fit in the target market, where these people work, what they earn and how realistic it is to fill the role. If you then commission a mandate, we credit the full amount.
Market Entry Hiring Plan
Which roles in which order, with what budget and on what timeline. For companies planning more than one position that want to know where to start.
Talent intelligence pipeline
Ongoing market and talent mapping for expansion and growth. You know who is a fit before the position becomes vacant.
Assessment and aptitude diagnostics
Even when you fill the role yourself and only need certainty in the selection.
In the words of those who have hired with us.
“Through Miguel Kintscher we discovered some unconventional and refreshing approaches in a fiercely competitive market for experienced civil engineers and geologists, and filled more than eight positions across my two companies. I personally gained valuable insights into the market and into the mindset and drive of the generations that have entered the labour market in recent years. I can particularly recommend working with him.”
Michael Funke Managing Director, dibauco GmbH and BfU GmbHTranslated from German. 
“Efficient, successful and profitable. Mr Kintscher's support throughout the entire process, from the initial meeting to draw up the right target profile, through search, selection and contract negotiation, to looking after new employees beyond onboarding, is very intensive and focused. I particularly value the fast, efficient and successful filling of even very challenging positions, always with very good profiles.”
Simon Reckla Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO, Wolftank Group AGTranslated from German.
All reference letters are on file and we are happy to show the originals on request.
Who is behind Kintscher Search.
Ten years ago, Miguel Kintscher's first life as a competitive and extreme athlete came to an abrupt end on a rock face.
“I spent my first life pushing the limits of what is possible in extreme sports. On the mountain, everything comes down to four things: the conditions nature sets, how well prepared you are for them, how well trained body and mind are, and the people you take on the venture with. After my near-death experience, I understood all of this anew and carried it into the world of work.
Anyone who comes that close to death looks at their own time differently afterwards. And at other people's time. Since then I have worked in recruitment, because that is exactly what it is about: the years someone gives to their working life. Whether they are well invested. And whether a person can develop their abilities, talents and gifts and bring them to something bigger as part of a team.
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My path has taken me through very different worlds: mechanical and plant engineering, precision and industrial technology, renewable energy and environmental technology, electric mobility, deep tech and SaaS, all the way to real estate and construction. Each of these industries has its own language and its own idea of what makes a key role. What stayed the same everywhere: it is never structures that move things. It is people in the right place, working together and giving their best.
The mountain has left me with a deep connection to nature. As a father, I see global change with more nuance; as a search consultant, I follow closely how technology is transforming the world of work. That is where the questions that drive me come from: How do we want to live and work in the future? How do we achieve technological progress that strengthens people and takes over from them where it makes sense? How do we generate the green energy that makes this progress sustainable for our planet? How do we develop industries in which technology relieves people of work that is beneath them? Where are new fields of work emerging that urgently need people? And how do we build buildings and cities that are sustainable and healthy?
Many companies already have answers and are developing pioneering solutions with their people. For them, I find the experts and talent who turn those answers into sustainable solutions and products.”
More than 3,500 selection processes and more than 200 leadership and key roles filled, from Senior Expert to managing director. Today we work from Barcelona, Munich and Frankfurt, in both markets, in German, Spanish and English. We know both business cultures because we live and work in both.
What drives us has not changed: removing limits, performing at our best and seeing ventures through with persistence. Back then on the mountain, today in executive search.
Cara Kintscher
Psychologist, Partner
“I love seeing people grow beyond themselves. That happens where a company's values are genuinely lived on the inside, and where a person, just as they are, fits right in.”
Cara Kintscher is a psychologist and has been a partner at Kintscher Search since 2023. While still at university, she was drawn first into management consulting and then into executive search, completing her first coaching qualifications alongside her degree. Since then she has personally owned every stage of talent acquisition: approach, candidate selection and aptitude diagnostics. Her field is people, their behaviour and their development. She matches a company's values and culture against how a person thinks, decides and acts. Because whether someone stays and makes an impact shows precisely where the two meet. At Kintscher Search she makes sure that processes are not only efficient and successful, but keep people at the centre.
Andreas Adam
Executive Coach, Psychologist
“Whether a placement holds rarely shows in a CV. It shows in how people work together, and in how someone leads when the pressure rises. In whether their way of being fits the culture they are joining.”
Andreas Adam is a psychologist, executive coach, former actor and your contact on the ground in Frankfurt. He works with managing directors and senior leaders. At Kintscher Search he makes sure that people come together who also fit beyond their expertise: in attitude and mindset, in their values and in how they behave when it really matters. In conversations, meetings, presentations and in conflict. A leader shapes the culture they join and is shaped by it in turn. When the two fit, a placement becomes a successful partnership that works on every level and lasts.
From these locations we work for you across the entire DACH region and on to Spain.
Barcelona
Munich
Frankfurt
When you hire regularly.
Some companies do not need a headhunter, but capability of their own. For them we built Recruitivate: our Direct Search Academy, the recruiting cockpit with the same technology we search with ourselves, and personal support on real hiring needs. Leading companies already work with it. We are happy to take on the trickiest twenty per cent of roles or critical capacity for you.
If a role seems impossible to fill right now, talk to us.
A twenty-minute conversation is usually enough to assess whether and how the position can be filled, what it will cost and how long it will take. Even if you end up searching yourself.
- Email:
- mk@kintschersearch.com
- Phone:
- +49 173 38 60 401
- LinkedIn:
- Miguel Kintscher
- Locations:
- Barcelona, Munich and Frankfurt
We work in German, Spanish and English.