We're hiring · India · 2026

Build something real. From Bengaluru.

hrPLANR is a new workforce platform for Indian companies. We're small, founder-led, India-built, and not pretending to be anything else. If that sounds like a place you'd do your best work — read on.

Infomaze Sphere LLP · Bengaluru · Remote-friendly
Where we are right now

Small team. Big product.

hrPLANR launched in 2026 from Infomaze Sphere LLP — a small founder-led team in Bengaluru. We're in the build-and-listen phase: shipping features, talking to early customers, getting better at this every week.

We haven't raised outside capital. We're not optimising for headcount — we hire when there's a job no current person can do, and we'd rather wait for the right person than fill the seat. If you join now, you'll have outsized impact and outsized scope.

Founded
2026
Bengaluru · self-funded
Team
Small
Single-digit · founder-led
Customers
Early
Building, learning, shipping
Product
9 modules
HR, payroll, compliance + AI
How we work

What working here actually looks like.

The honest version. Not the "ping-pong tables and free dinner" version, because we don't have those.

01

Async-first · remote-friendly · India hours

Office in Bengaluru if you want it. Remote anywhere in India otherwise. No customer calls between 8 PM and 9 AM IST except for genuine on-call. We don't take 3 AM Pune calls because the customer is in San Francisco.

02

Small team · big scope

You won't be one of 12 people on a sub-team. You'll own a real piece of the product end-to-end — from talking to customers to writing the spec to shipping the feature. If you want narrow scope and clear handoffs, this isn't it.

03

We write a lot · we meet less

Decisions get written down. Specs before code. Customer feedback summarised before discussion. We have one team meeting a week, and a 15-minute daily sync only when there's something to sync about.

04

Bias toward shipping · honest about not-ready

We ship in small pieces. We mark features by maturity level on the public site — beta, in progress, planned for Q4. If something isn't ready, we say so. Same posture internally: we don't pretend a half-built thing is done.

05

Customer time isn't a chore · it's the job

Everyone on the team — engineering, design, product — talks to customers regularly. The best feature ideas come from a 30-minute call with someone running payroll for 60 people on a spreadsheet.

06

India-first · not "India for the world"

We're not building hrPLANR to take overseas later. India is the market. PT slabs, Aadhaar handling, sandwich leave, F&F computations — these are the things we go deep on, not "supported as an edge case."

Roles we'd hire next

The next people we're looking for. Sample postings below.

We haven't formally opened these yet — we're listing them so you can see where we'd grow next. If you fit, send an email; we'd rather have a conversation now than wait for a "formal" listing.

Don't see your role? Email careers@hrplanr.com anyway. We've hired great people who didn't match a formal listing — if you're sharp and care about Indian workforce ops, we want to know.

What we don't do

The flip side. Things we're explicit about not doing.

Most startup career pages tell you what they offer. Here's what we don't — so you can self-filter.

"Rockstars" and "ninjas" We hire careful, considered people who can work well in a small team. If your CV talks about being a "10x rockstar" we're probably not a fit either way.
10-round interview processes Five steps, ~10-12 hours of your time total, spread over 2-3 weeks. We'll respect your time and give clear feedback at every stage. If we're not a fit, we tell you fast.
"We're a family" We're a company. You're an employee. We pay you, you do good work, both sides are honest when it stops working. That respect is more durable than family talk.
Title inflation If you join early as an engineer, you're an engineer — not a "Founding Principal Architect." Titles map to scope and responsibility, not seniority bingo.
Vague pay bands Before round 2 we tell you the salary range and the equity band. If we're far apart on numbers, we'd rather know in week 1 than week 5.
Take-home tests that should take a week Our technical exercises are 2-3 hours, paid if extensive. We don't expect free consulting from candidates.
Compensation

What we offer. The numbers version.

We pay competitively for the Indian SaaS market at our stage — not Bay Area numbers, but genuinely competitive for India. Cash + equity, with the equity meaningful given the stage.

The specific band for a role is shared after the first call, before the technical interview. If the numbers don't work, we'd rather end the process early than waste each other's time.

Cash · competitive for Indian SaaS

Benchmarked against funded Indian SaaS companies at the seed/pre-seed stage. We don't underpay because we're early — but we also don't pretend to be a unicorn.

Equity · meaningful at this stage

4-year vest with 1-year cliff. Early employees get materially more than late employees. The equity grant is documented in writing, in a standard ESOP scheme.

Standard benefits · group health · device budget

Group health insurance for you + spouse + 2 children. Laptop + peripherals on join. Quarterly L&D budget for courses, books, conferences.

Flexible PL · unlimited reasonable

We don't count PL. Take time when you need it. Tell your team. Wrap up your work properly. Trust is the default; we course-correct only if it gets abused.

The process

How we hire. Five steps. ~10-12 hours of your time.

From first email to offer letter — typically 2-3 weeks. We respect your time and give clear feedback at every stage.

1

Email + CV review

Send your CV + a few lines about which role and why. We respond within 3 business days either way.

~3 days
2

30-min screening call · with Brijesh

We talk about your background, the role, what you're looking for. Pay band shared here. If we're not aligned, the process ends with mutual respect.

30 min
3

Technical conversation / portfolio review

For engineering roles: 60-min architecture discussion + a small 2-3 hour take-home (paid if extensive). For design: portfolio walkthrough. For CS: case study.

~3-4 hrs
4

Team conversation + values check

90-min session with the team you'd work with. Two-way fit — you also get to interview us. Ask about anything: the equity, the runway, the customers.

90 min
5

Offer + references

Verbal offer first, written offer within 48 hours. We check 2 references from your past work. We expect you to talk to ours too.

~3 days
Total elapsed time: 2-3 weeks from first email to written offer. Total of your time: ~10-12 hours.

Send us a note. Even if there's no formal role.

We're a small team and we hire opportunistically. If you've read this far and something resonates, write to us. Tell us what you do well, what you're looking for, what you'd want to build here.