Talent we staff
Product Designers
UX and UI designers, design systems specialists, and researchers. People who've shipped products, not portfolio sites.
Engineers
Frontend, backend, and full-stack. Software staff augmentation across React, Node, Python, mobile and AI engineers.
Graphic & Brand Design
Design on demand for teams with constant creative output — campaigns, social, decks, collateral. Monthly, not per project.
Product Designers
UX and UI designers, design systems specialists, and researchers. People who've shipped products, not portfolio sites.
Engineers
Frontend, backend, and full-stack. Software staff augmentation across React, Node, Python, mobile and AI engineers.
Graphic & Brand Design
Design on demand for teams with constant creative output — campaigns, social, decks, collateral. Monthly, not per project.
QA & DevOps
Test engineers and infrastructure specialists. The roles that are hardest to hire and easiest to underestimate.
Dedicated Squads
A full pod — design, engineering, QA — working as one unit on your roadmap. Technical staff augmentation at team scale rather than individual seats.
Offshore Delivery
Offshore staff augmentation from Bangalore with US-hours overlap. The cost structure that makes a fifteen-person team possible.
Talent we staff
Design and Tech staffing solutions for Startups, scale-ups & enterprise teams
Startups building 0 to 1
You've raised, but you haven't hired. Bring in people who've shipped before, prove the product works, then build the permanent team once you know what you need.
Enterprises filling specialist gaps
Your roadmap is yours. You just need a senior AI engineer or a design systems lead, and recruitment is a four-month process. We place in weeks.
Scaling without growing headcount
The work has grown faster than your ability to hire for it. Add capacity for as long as you need it, and stop paying for it when the release ships.
Design bottlenecks
Engineering is ahead of design and the backlog is growing. Add designers who work in your files, your system, and your sprint rhythm.
Cover for gaps
Parental leave, a resignation, a notice period nobody planned for. Keep the roadmap moving instead of pausing it for a quarter.
Testing before committing
Not sure the role should be permanent yet? Work with someone for three months and find out before you make it a headcount decision.
Add the best of our team to yours
Not sure where to start? Let's figure it out together.
Bring your talent needs. We'll do the rest.
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How it works
Scope
A call to work out whether this is a talent problem, a skill problem, or a process problem. The answer changes who we send, and sometimes the answer is that you don't need us.
Match
Two or three profiles, each with a note on why they fit this specific brief. Not a stack of CVs for you to filter.
Embed
They join your tools and your rituals in week one. We handle contracts, equipment, and cover; you handle priorities.
Adjust
Scale up, scale down, or swap someone who isn't right. No renegotiation, no penalty.
Why Teams Choose Red Baton for Staffing
Backed by an agency, not a directory
If the person you hired needs a second opinion on architecture or a reviewer for a design system, they've got 30 colleagues and ten years of project history behind them. A freelancer has Google.
Design and engineering from one place
Most staffing firms do tech. A few do creative. Needing both usually means two vendors, two contracts, and a gap between them where the handoff problems live. We place designers and engineers from the same team.
Embedded, not contracted
Your standups, your board, your repo, your Figma. They're accountable to your outcomes, not to a ticket queue and a timesheet. If it works like outsourcing, we've done it wrong.
A team, not a talent pool
Marketplaces send you vetted individuals who've never worked together. Our people are employed here and have shipped alongside each other for years. When you take two, you get a pair who already know how the other works.
Scale down as easily as up
Start with one person, grow to a squad, and drop back when the sprint's done. The flexibility is real because there's no permanent headcount on your side to unwind.
Let’s build something
great together
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Freelancers and marketplace talent are independent operators — good ones are very good, but they're alone. Our people are employed here, work inside a 100 -person team, and have colleagues to escalate to. You're also not managing the relationship: contracts, replacements, cover during illness, and equipment are ours to handle. The practical difference shows up when something goes wrong, not when everything's fine.
Typically 7 days from brief to first standup. The people we place already work here, so there's no sourcing or screening phase. What takes time is matching — we'd rather send the right person in two weeks than an available one in two days.
We hold overlap with US mornings, so your day includes several hours where they're online and reachable. Standups, reviews, and pairing happen live. Async handoffs cover the rest, and most teams find work progressing overnight is a benefit rather than a cost. If your role genuinely requires full US-hours presence, say so upfront — some do, and we'll tell you if it's a poor fit.
We replace them. No notice period, no argument about whose fault it was. This is the main advantage of staff augmentation services over permanent hiring — the cost of a wrong hire is a conversation rather than six months and a severance package.
Yes, and it happens. We'll agree conversion terms upfront so it isn't a negotiation later. We'd rather you hire someone who's already proven they work well with your team than lose the relationship over it.
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