For any company
An India office, without opening one
Pick the seats. We set up the office, employ the team and run everything around them. You manage the work.
- The SoTalented Office Guarantee
- Works in your time zone
- $0 until you hire
Sound familiar.
- You’ve priced an India entity and stopped at the lawyers, the lease and the payroll setup.
- You’d need someone on the ground to run HR, IT and the office, and you don’t have them.
- Every option you’ve found is either a freelancer marketplace or a year-long project.
For example
Say you’re a 30-person software company. You’ve looked at opening in India twice, and both times the list got as far as the entity, the lease, the bank account, payroll and someone local to run it, and stopped there.
With a satellite office, you skip the list. You tell us the seats you need. We find and assess the people, put them in a premium SoTalented Satellite Office in India, employ them, and run the 42 touchpoints from sourcing to exit. You interview, approve and manage the work.
It’s your office in India without being your company in India. Your people, your work, one invoice.
What you’d set up.
Every seat is dedicated to your company and never shared. Prices are per person, per month, all-inclusive, and differ by level.
Any role
Pick from every role we place, each with its own price.
See all roles
Start with one seat and add the next when it’s working. $0 until your first hire starts, and 30 days notice to scale down.
What’s inside every seatYour first seats are working in about three weeks.
Here is exactly what happens after you say yes, week by week.
Week one
We find them
- We do
- Write the job description, source, screen and run the technical assessment.
- You do
- Brief us on the role and sign the brief.
Week two
You choose
- We do
- Check English and time zone, then run background verification, references and the offer.
- You do
- Interview a shortlist that has already passed the assessment, and choose.
Week three
They start
- We do
- Contracts, benefits, desk, equipment and software access, all in place.
- You do
- Welcome them.
Day one
They start.
You start paying here. Until then, you pay nothing.
Your own entity, or a satellite office.
Setting up in India yourself means building every column of this table. Here’s what the satellite office covers instead.
Compare with
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
The SoTalented Office Guarantee
Hire with confidence. The risk is ours.
Four promises behind every person who joins your office.
Right person
What if they are not the right fit?
We replace them inside 30 days, free.
No questions asked. Tell us it is not working, and the replacement is on us.
Right office
Where will they actually work?
In a premium SoTalented Satellite Office in India.
WeWork-grade workspace in Bangalore or Jaipur, with reliable internet, power backup, IT support and security in place.
Right management
Who looks after them once they start?
We do, across 42 touchpoints.
You interview and approve. Payroll, HR, reviews, growth and a clean exit are ours.
Right terms
What am I signing up for?
Nothing, until your first hire starts.
Then one invoice a month, no long-term contract, and 30 days notice to scale down.
Do I need a legal entity in India?
No. We’re the employer of record, with full legal compliance in India. Your team works for you, on our payroll.
Who owns the work they produce?
You do. Contracts, NDAs and IP assignment are part of every hire, in place before day one.
Can the office grow over time?
Yes, one seat at a time. Add a seat when the last one is working, and scale down on 30 days notice.
What does a seat cost?
It depends on the role and the level. Every price is all-inclusive: salary, benefits, payroll, compliance, office, IT and equipment, on one invoice. Each role’s bands are on its page.
Can I start with one seat?
Yes. You pay nothing until your first hire starts, add seats when it works, and give 30 days notice to scale down.
Related use cases.
For startups, solo founders and agencies
Turn three freelancers into one team
Design, front end and content each sit with a different freelancer or vendor, on separate invoices, and nobody owns the whole.
Read the use case: Turn three freelancers into one teamWhat you’d set up
Frontend developer, graphic designer, content writer
For growing companies
Grow output when headcount is capped
Local hiring is frozen for the year, and the work keeps growing anyway.
Read the use case: Grow output when headcount is cappedWhat you’d set up
Any role
For startups and growing companies
The role that’s been open too long
The role has been open for months, and two of your engineers are covering it.
Read the use case: The role that’s been open too longWhat you’d set up
Backend developer
Start with one seat.
Tell us your situation on a call. We’ll tell you honestly whether a satellite office fits it, and what it would cost.