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Employer of Record for Startups in Spain
Hire in Spain in days, not months. We are the legal employer for your Spanish team so you can move at startup speed — no entity, no legal drag, full control of the people and the work.
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After a round closes, hiring becomes urgent — and Spain is a top destination for engineering, sales and operations talent. But a Spanish subsidiary is the opposite of startup speed: months of incorporation, capital, accounting and legal obligations before a single offer letter goes out.
DNGlobalEx lets you hire as if you already had a Spanish entity, without building one. Your hire is on a compliant local contract in days, payroll and social security handled, and immigration managed when the candidate is relocating. When you reach the headcount where your own entity makes sense, we hand the team over cleanly.
Built for how startups hire
- Founders and CEOs making their first one to ten hires in Spain
- Post-funding teams under pressure to grow headcount fast
- Companies hiring a country manager or first sales rep to test Spain
- Engineering teams hiring specialists who happen to be in Spain
- Founders who want to protect the candidate experience, not scare talent with red tape
Why startups choose an EOR
Days to first hire
No incorporation, no notary, no capital. We confirm total cost and put your hire on a compliant Spanish contract within days of the offer.
Runway-friendly
No fixed entity overhead burning cash before you scale. You pay a predictable per-employee fee and nothing else.
Founder-grade candidate experience
Clean contract, on-time payroll and real HR support — so a great candidate never feels like they joined an improvised setup.
Scales and reverses with you
Add hires as you grow, transfer everyone to your own entity when it pays off, or wind down with standard notice if a bet does not land.
From offer to onboarded
Send us the offer details
Role, salary, start date. We return the total employment cost in Spain and the applicable collective agreement, usually same day.
We employ them
Compliant Spanish contract under our entity, social security registration, payroll and benefits — with IP and confidentiality assigned to you.
They start, you build
Your hire is productive from day one. We run everything employment-related and handle any permit if they are relocating.
EOR vs entity for a startup
| EOR with DNGlobalEx | Your own Spanish entity | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first hire | Days | 2–6 months |
| Upfront cash | None | Incorporation, capital, setup fees |
| Monthly burn | Per-employee fee | Fixed accounting, tax and legal overhead |
| Best stage | Pre-entity, first 1–10 hires | Established, growing local team |
| If a bet fails | Offboard with notice | Formal liquidation |
Frequently asked questions
We just raised and need to hire yesterday. How fast is realistic? +
If the candidate can already work in Spain, days from signed offer to compliant contract. If they need a permit, we run immigration and employment in parallel so onboarding is not held hostage by paperwork.
Is this compliant enough for due diligence later? +
Yes. Employees are on standard Spanish contracts with a real employer, social security and the correct collective agreement — a clean, diligence-ready setup, not a grey-area arrangement.
What happens when we outgrow the EOR? +
That is the plan. When headcount justifies your own entity, we help incorporate and transfer the team preserving seniority and terms, with no disruption for employees.
Can we offer equity to EOR employees? +
Yes — equity is granted by your company directly to the individual; it sits alongside the Spanish employment contract. We coordinate so salary, benefits and equity work together.
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