Building India engineering teams for US product companies with the people who staff them
A working session on structuring, hiring and retaining an India-based engineering team that ships with a US product org.
What this covers.
Our staffing and IT leads run through how India engineering teams are actually structured for US product companies: exclusive versus open searches, compensation bands that hold, time-zone overlap that people can sustain, and the retention practices that stop a team unravelling in year two.
Team shape
Pod structures that work across a nine-and-a-half hour offset, and the roles to hire first.
Compensation reality
Bands that hold twelve months later, and what drives counter-offers.
Retention
The practices that keep senior engineers past year two, from ownership to career path.
Section by section.
Structuring the team
First hires, pod design and reporting lines across time zones.
Search model
Exclusive versus open searches, and what each does to quality and speed.
Offer and onboarding
Compensation, notice periods and the first ninety days.
Live Q&A
Open questions with the staffing and engineering leads.
Three things you can act on.
- A team structure suited to a US product cadence
- Compensation and notice-period assumptions you can plan on
- Retention practices that survive the second year
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Format
Webinar · Live session · 45 minutes + Q&A
Category
Talent
Extent
45 minutes plus Q&A
Written for
Founders, VPs of engineering and talent leaders
Level
Mixed
Language
English
Published
2026-05-14
Author
Lucidspire Staffing and IT Services practices
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Building India engineering teams for US product companies
A working session on structuring, hiring and retaining an India-based engineering team that ships with a US product org.
Live session · 45 minutes + Q&A
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