Senior recruitment in
Madrid

Madrid is the political, financial and corporate capital of Spain and the centre of gravity for senior Iberian hiring across banking, telecoms, energy, professional services and large-corporate leadership. The Cuatro Torres and Paseo de la Castellana corridor concentrate banking, asset management, telecoms and Big Four consulting talent (Banco Santander, BBVA, Telefónica, Iberdrola, Repsol, Mapfre, EY, Deloitte, PwC, McKinsey, BCG, Bain); the Salamanca and Chamberí districts anchor advertising, media and creative leadership; the Las Tablas and Tres Cantos corridor carries the SaaS, AdTech and B2B platform scenes.

A typical Go Ahead HiRe Madrid brief is a Country Manager Iberia for a US or European scale-up landing its first Iberian hire, a VP Sales Iberia or Southern Europe for a SaaS or fintech business, a CMO or Head of Marketing for a Spanish scale-up scaling internationally, or a confidential C-suite replacement inside an IBEX 35 group or a PE-backed portfolio company. Roughly two-thirds of our Spanish mandates land in or commute into Madrid.

Madrid senior search runs to a distinctively Spanish cadence. The Estatuto de los Trabajadores sets the baseline; notice periods cluster at one month for individual contributors and three to six months for executives via Alta Dirección contracts; severance is structured (20 days per year of service for fair dismissal, 33 days for unfair dismissal, capped); and the works council (comité de empresa) is a real factor inside the larger employers. We brief every international hiring team through the Alta Dirección framework before kickoff.