How Onform built its India engineering team to accelerate the product roadmap

Onform, founded in 2020, builds technology that helps athletes and coaches turn practice into measurable progress through a video analysis platform powered by AI, machine learning, and cloud infrastructure. The company had been scaling product and engineering in parallel since launch, with India engineering playing a meaningful role in the build. Onform needed to expand access to experienced engineering talent in India to accelerate their product roadmap. They wanted to hire early engineers quickly, but with the same seniority bar they would hire for at home. The challenge was finding and recruiting senior engineers in India's competitive talent market while managing the operational and compliance requirements of international employment.

Wisemonk provided end-to-end recruiting and Employer of Record services. The solution included: End-to-end hiring running through Wisemonk with sourcing against tight role definitions, structured interviews, salary benchmarking against the local market, references, and the close. A structured pre-onboarding workflow ensured every hire reached Day 1 readiness with contracts, statutory contributions, equipment, and the compliance frame all in place before the new joinee started. Wisemonk ran the operational layer that keeps Onform's India team productive, including lifecycle management, ongoing HR support, and the structural work around each hire all running through one partnership. The solution included engineering talent sourcing at speed, hiring senior engineers against tight role definitions in a market where the strongest candidates close quickly. Wisemonk handled compliant onboarding from Day 1 with local statutory benefits and payroll requirements configured correctly from the first payroll cycle. Compensation was structured in line with local market norms and employee expectations.

Onform's India engineering function went live in record time with new hires able to become productive quickly after joining. The product roadmap has accelerated as the team has grown. Wisemonk ensured 100% local compliance by setting up local statutory benefits and payroll requirements so that employees receive the benefits they deserve from Day 1. The India engineering team became an important contributor to Onform's product development. Pre-onboarding readiness reached 95%, meaning hires were fully prepared and compliant from their first day. Wisemonk ran the recruiting and operational rails underneath while Onform's leadership stayed focused on product, customers, and growth.