Tesla Hires in India Almost a Decade After Launching Preorders

• Tesla is hiring for roles primarily based in Mumbai, India.
• The recruitment efforts come simply days after Elon Musk met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Tesla has lengthy sought to interrupt into India, the world’s third-largest auto market.

Tesla is amping up its recruitment efforts in India simply days after the nation’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, met with Elon Musk.

Tesla listed 13 roles primarily based in Mumbai on its careers web page. The positions had been additionally marketed on the corporate’s LinkedIn web page on Monday.

The roles vary throughout three classes — car service, gross sales and buyer assist, and operations and enterprise assist.

All of the listings present that the roles, that are a mixture of full time and half time roles, are primarily based out of suburban Mumbai.

The listings additionally hinted on the opening of a Tesla retailer and a supply middle in India. As an example, the “Retailer Supervisor” itemizing says the brand new rent will probably be “chargeable for overseeing and driving gross sales and gross sales operations.”

Tesla can be hiring individuals for supply operations work. Employees below this designation are anticipated to “oversee and coordinate administrative tasks on the supply middle.”

Musk met with Modi in Washington on Thursday. The Indian premier additionally met with President Donald Trump throughout his two-day go to to the US.

It’s unclear if Modi and Musk mentioned Tesla’s entry into the Indian market throughout their assembly. Modi wrote in an X put up on Thursday that he had a “excellent assembly” with the Tesla CEO.

“We mentioned numerous points, together with these he’s enthusiastic about reminiscent of area, mobility, expertise and innovation,” Modi added.

Trump instructed reporters on Thursday that whereas he wasn’t certain why Musk had met Modi, he assumed it was as a result of Musk “desires to do enterprise in India.”

Representatives for Tesla didn’t reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.

Tesla has been planning to enter the Indian marketplace for near a decade. In April 2016, the corporate began accepting pre-orders for its automobiles.

Then, in January 2021, Tesla registered an organization in India, simply weeks after the nation’s transport minister, Nitin Gadkari, stated Tesla would launch its operations there in early 2021. India is the world’s third-largest auto market.

However these plans had been placed on maintain. Musk stated in July 2021 it was tough for Tesla to interrupt into the Indian market as a result of the nation’s “import duties are the very best on the planet by far of any massive nation.”

“Nonetheless working via a variety of challenges with the federal government,” Musk wrote in an X put up in January 2022 when requested if Tesla was nonetheless planning to launch in India.

In March, India lowered its import taxes on EVs made by corporations that commit to speculate a minimum of $500 million and begin making vehicles within the nation inside three years.

Musk was scheduled to go to India in April and announce Tesla’s entry into the nation. Nevertheless, the journey was postponed on the final minute.

“Sadly, very heavy Tesla obligations require that the go to to India be delayed, however I do very a lot sit up for visiting later this yr,” Musk wrote in an X put up in April.