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Managed Teams

Your full-time team in India, with zero overheads

Managed Teams is an enhanced version of the standard Employer of Record model. You hire and manage your full-time distributed tech team. We employ it locally and take care of everything else.

How Managed Teams works

You keep a direct working relationship with every team member. We sit underneath it and handle the employment, compliance and infrastructure.

You

Company

You lead the team as its manager, with full control of the work.

Direct employer–employee relationship

Day-to-day management, team allocation, performance management and appraisals

Your team

Professional

Full-time professionals who work as part of your organisation.

We provide to you

Team management

Compliance, taxes, payroll, talent infrastructure and engagement.

Decision Culture

One partner handles everything around the team, so you can focus on the work.

We provide to your team

Local employer of record

Payroll, leave management, benefits, taxes, infrastructure, and virtual HR and finance support.

What is included

An end-to-end suite, from first hire to daily operations

Managed Teams meets the rising demand for global talent and opens up new business opportunities, without the cost and effort of setting up a legal entity yourself.

We use our proven three-phase implementation approach to set up the team and support it as it grows into a Global Capability Center.

Sourcing, hiring and engagement

We find and hire the best talent with you, then keep them engaged. Clients take part in every hiring decision.

Customised workspaces with integrated IT

Ready-to-work offices, equipment and IT, set up for your team.

Compliance, governance and operations

Payroll, taxes, benefits, leave, statutory compliance, and virtual HR and finance support.

Why clients choose Decision Culture

Resource quality

8–20 yrsHighly experienced professionals on project teams, with work experience ranging from 8 to 20 years

Long-term support

5+ yrsAverage tenure of over five years on client teams
<5%Market-leading retention, with attrition below 5%

Client-led hiring

You decideClients take an active part in hiring their own support teams, employees or contractors

Flexibility

12pm ESTGlobal support with significant time-zone overlap, until 12pm EST
24/7On-demand 24/7 or weekend support, tailored to project needs

Skills we staff

Your team can include far more than data and AI. These are the professional technology skills we hire and manage for clients.

Data, AI and cloud

PythonSQLDatabricksGoogle BigQuerySnowflakeMachine learningGenAI and LLMsPower BITableau

Web and application development

JavaJavaScriptC#.NETPythonC / C++PHPRubySQL ServerOracle

Mobile

iOSAndroidHTML5Objective-C

ERP and CRM

SAPOracleWorkdaySiebelPeopleSoft

Data warehouse and BI

TeradataOracleSAPIBMSAP BW/BOSSRS / SSISMSASCognosOBIEE

Big data and in-memory computing

HadoopSAP HANA

UNIX and infrastructure

LinuxSolarisAIXHP-UXArchitectsSystems engineersAdministrators

Finance and accounts

Accounts payableAccounts receivableGeneral ledgerCash managementExpensesCollectionsTreasury

Tech support

HelpdeskDesktop supportNetwork engineeringAdministrationHardwareSoftware

Delivery and quality

Project managementProcess improvementChange managementBusiness analysisQuality assuranceTestingTechnical writing

Enterprise and legacy systems support

Many enterprises still run critical systems on older platforms. Our teams can support and modernise them.

ASP.NETVisual BasicVisual C++J2EE / EJBDHTML / XMLIISColdFusionDrupalDocumentumVignetteInterwovenRemedyHeatVantiveClarify

Ready to build your team?

Tell us the roles and team size you need. We will come back with a plan and timeline.