When the hire matters — a senior leadership role, a hard-to-fill specialist, the first ten engineers at a Polish delivery centre — UpMee runs the search end-to-end. Deep networks built over years, structured assessment, and a candidate experience that protects your employer brand. We hire to keep, not to close.
Permanent recruitment at UpMee splits into three practices — built around how the work actually differs. Same standards across all three, very different research depth, candidate approach, and timeline.
From senior React developers to Heads of Engineering. Recruiters who can parse the difference between someone good at React and someone who'd be a strong technical lead — because they used to interview engineers themselves. Most IT searches close in 4–7 weeks.
Directors, VPs, and C-level appointments where confidentiality, market mapping, and reference depth matter more than speed. We work as a retained search partner — paid in instalments tied to milestones, with a 6-month replacement guarantee. Average tenure of placed candidates: 4.2 years.
The roles internal recruiters and generalist agencies can't crack: rare finance functions, regulated specialists, bilingual leadership, very senior individual contributors. Slower searches, smaller pools, more analytical work upfront — which is exactly what gets the result.
Three stages that look the same across every search — adjusted in depth and timeline for the role's seniority and how niche the talent pool is.
When the shape of the hiring problem isn't a single permanent role, here's what else we run.
When you're hiring at volume — opening a delivery centre, scaling a SaaS team, ramping a sales floor — RPO plugs a full recruitment engine into your business for the months it's needed. Embedded recruiters, your ATS, your brand, our networks.
Learn moreThe whole HR function delivered as a service — payroll, compliance, contracts, employee operations. Useful when you're hiring into a market where you don't yet have HR infrastructure, or want to consolidate.
Learn moreFor relocations and international placements — full corporate housing lifecycle handled. Sourcing, lease negotiation, deposit management, ongoing tenancy, and compliance with Polish residential tenancy law.
Learn moreWhat hiring managers actually ask in scoping calls — answered honestly, with the real numbers behind them.
A 30-minute call to scope the brief and tell you honestly whether we can deliver — and how fast. We won't take engagements we don't think we can run well.
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