Hiring in the UK and Ireland
The firm's home market and head office. Global Search RC is Cardiff-based and works across London, Dublin and the regional technology clusters, hiring for language service providers, media localization companies and the interpreting sector. It is where the firm is headquartered, not where most of its revenue now comes from.
Demand
What is driving demand here?
The UK and Ireland hold an established base of language service providers and one of Europe's largest media and streaming localization markets in London. Demand is steady rather than fast-growing, and the firm treats the UK as head office while running most of its searches into the United States, where recruitment fees are materially higher.
Specialisms
Which specialisms concentrate in the UK and Ireland?
The parts of the industry with the densest presence in this market, each with its own hiring problem.
Roles
What roles do we place in the UK and Ireland?
Sales director
Owns a revenue number for a language-service or language-technology business — a region, a segment, and usually a small team. The most commonly hired commercial leadership role in the industry.
Account executiveSales directorVP of sales
VP of sales
Owns the entire go-to-market for a language business: the number, the sales organization, the commercial model and how the company sells as machine translation reshapes what it is selling.
Sales directorVP of salesChief revenue officer
Director of interpreting
Runs an interpreting operation — the network, scheduling, credentialing and quality behind on-demand and scheduled interpreting, where US demand is largely regulatory and healthcare-driven.
Interpreter network / scheduling managerDirector of interpretingVP of interpreting / language access
What is distinctive
What is distinctive about hiring here?
This is a mature market where the qualified population is well known and much of it is not actively looking, so leadership hiring is market mapping and persuasion rather than sourcing.
Compensation runs below US levels for equivalent roles, which means strong UK operators are regularly recruited into US and remote-first roles. That is a retention problem for employers here and a live candidate pool for those hiring elsewhere.
Questions
Hiring in the UK and Ireland: common questions
- Do you only recruit in the UK?
- No. The UK and Ireland are the head office, but most of the firm's searches run into the United States, where the market is deeper and recruitment fees are materially higher. UK and Irish candidates are frequently placed into US and remote-first roles.
How we hire
Four practices, every market
- Executive searchRetained search for the roles that set direction.
- Talent searchSpecialist individual contributors and middle management.
- Interim expertiseContract and fractional cover for a defined piece of work.
- Growth advisoryDelivery model change, AI adoption, and the org design that follows.
Elsewhere
The other 5 markets
- North AmericaThe largest concentration of language technology and AI buyers, and the deepest market for machine learning and language data roles.
- DACH and continental EuropeGermany, Austria and Switzerland alongside the wider European market. Dense in established LSPs and translation technology vendors.
- NordicsSmall by headcount, disproportionately strong in speech technology and natural language processing.
- Asia PacificGaming localization, language data operations and the fastest-growing demand for multilingual AI capability.
- Latin AmericaMedia localization and a growing base of remote localization operations talent serving North American clients.
Hiring in the UK and Ireland?
A consultation is a call about the role, the local market and what the shape of the team should be.