Reference
Brightlands salary negotiation playbook
What the vacancy already gives you
- Published gross monthly range: €3,350–€6,100 full-time.
- Contract: 1 year with prospect of permanence.
- Benefits named: holiday allowance, structural year-end bonus, ABP pension, Loyalis disability insurance, 30 leave days, and extra compensation leave possibility.
Your negotiation structure
- Delay precision until fit is clearer. First ask about scope, success criteria, and role level.
- Use the published range. Anchor from their own band, not from your past salary.
- Aim upper-half if the conversation supports it. Your evidence mix is unusually broad for the role.
- Negotiate total package, not base only. Consider start date, training budget, leave, hybrid rhythm, review timing, and salary step.
Practice phrasing
Based on the published range and the fit between my engineering depth, patent work, venture validation, and founder operating experience, I see the role in the upper half of the band. If we are talking in gross monthly terms, I would currently picture something around the mid-to-upper €5k area, depending on the full package and role expectations.
Do not lead with your floor. Privately define your
minimum before the interview, but do not volunteer it first.