Hire an offshore virtual assistant who stays for years, not months.
Most VA arrangements churn because the assistant is a freelancer juggling several clients. Sprint Labs places a vetted independent assistant with committed availability, managed by Sprint Labs, so they build context in your business and stay in it.
General virtual assistants, executive assistants, admin and data support, inbox and calendar management, and back-office coordination — recruited mainly from the Philippines.
Hire an offshore virtual assistant who stays for years, not months.: the short answer
A full-time offshore virtual assistant through Sprint Labs costs roughly USD 1,000–1,700 per month all-in, and an experienced executive assistant USD 1,600–2,800. That covers the contractor's fee, recruitment and vetting, contracts, payments and FX, management support and replacement, with no placement fee. Shortlists land in 5–10 business days.
Real, dedicated people — not a rotating vendor bench.
Every hire is interviewed for your brief, engaged by Sprint Labs as an independent contractor and stays on your team long term.
Same tools, same rituals, overlapping hours.
Your offshore team joins your standups and boards directly, so day-to-day collaboration feels local.
Why a managed dedicated VA behaves differently to a freelance one.
The work is the same. The retention is not. Almost every complaint about virtual assistants, disappearing, splitting attention, no accountability, traces back to the engagement model rather than the person.
Full-time and yours alone
Your assistant is not shared across three other clients and not billed by the hour. They work your full week on your priorities, which is why the small undocumented knowledge — how your invoices are coded, which clients get called back first — actually accumulates.
A managed engagement is what reduces churn
A solo freelance VA can leave for the next rate bump because there is little support around the relationship. A Sprint Labs assistant is a vetted independent professional with a contractor agreement, a committed availability window, monthly payments through Sprint Labs and management support behind them, and is set up for continuity rather than short-term gigs.
There is cover when they are away
Planned time off and non-availability are managed, handovers are written, and our team coordinates continuity for extended absence. A solo freelancer simply goes quiet, usually in the week you need them most.
Someone else manages the contractor engagement admin
No contractor agreements to draft, no overseas payments to reconcile, no monthly contractor invoices to manage, no replacement process to run. You brief the work and review the output; the engagement admin sits with us and arrives as one monthly line on your invoice.
Offshore assistant seat cost, USD per month.
Fully-loaded monthly seat cost including the contractor's fee, recruitment and vetting, contracts, payments and FX, management support and replacement. These are full-time, dedicated seats rather than hourly bookings.
Quoted in USD, invoiced in your currency — Australian and US customers are billed in AUD or USD at a rate fixed when the quote is accepted.
How long does it take to go from brief to first day?
Brief the role in-app, get a named and vetted shortlist in 5 to 10 business days, interview the people you like, and we handle the engagement, the contractor agreement, payments and the onboarding. One flat monthly invoice in your own currency, 60-day cancellation notice, no placement fee.
Brief the role
Tell us the responsibilities, seniority, tools and hours you need. Ten minutes in-app, or a call if you'd rather talk it through.
Shortlist in 5–10 days
Named, vetted candidates with CVs, prior work, our assessment notes and a voice recording so you hear their English before you commit an hour.
You interview and choose
Run your own interviews and working sessions. Nobody joins your team without your decision.
We contract and onboard
Contractor agreement, contractor payments, optional managed device where needed and management support, all handled by Sprint Labs. You get one monthly invoice in your own currency.
How do I cover Australian and US time zones with one team?
The Philippines sits at GMT+8, two to three hours behind eastern Australia, so an assistant there covers a standard AEST workday with almost no adjustment. For US businesses the common pattern is a night shift in Manila that maps to US Pacific or Eastern business hours, which local law compensates with a night differential — that is agreed in the Work Order and included in your monthly seat cost, so there is no separate loading on your invoice.
Assistant and support roles we staff.
Each guide covers what the role owns, the tools we screen for, and how to interview well.
Questions about hiring an offshore virtual assistant.
What does a full-time offshore assistant cost per month?
Roughly USD 1,000–1,700 per month all-in for a full-time general virtual assistant, and USD 1,600–2,800 for an experienced executive assistant. That single monthly figure covers the contractor's fee, recruitment and vetting, contracts, payments and FX, management support and replacement. There is no placement fee and no hourly billing.
Is the assistant dedicated to my business only?
Yes. Every seat is a dedicated full-time contractor working only for you. We do not pool assistants across clients or share them between accounts, which is the main structural difference from a VA marketplace or agency.
What can an offshore virtual assistant actually do?
Inbox and calendar management, travel and meeting coordination, CRM and data entry, invoicing and expense admin, research and reporting, document preparation, social media scheduling, customer follow-up and first-line support. Specialised work — bookkeeping, marketing execution, support ticketing — is better briefed as its own role so we screen for that skill directly.
Can an offshore assistant cover my business hours?
Yes. Australian business hours are close to a normal day in Manila. US hours can be supported with an evening or night availability window, agreed up front in the Work Order and priced into your monthly cost.
What happens when my assistant takes leave?
Leave is planned in advance and handed over in writing, and Sprint Labs arranges cover for extended or unplanned absence. That is the practical difference from a solo freelancer, who simply becomes unavailable.
How do I onboard an assistant remotely?
Give them access to your email, calendar and core tools, record a handful of short screen walkthroughs of recurring tasks, and run a daily fifteen-minute check-in for the first fortnight. Most assistants are running their recurring workload unsupervised inside three to four weeks.
What if the assistant is not the right fit?
Within the first 30 days we replace them at our cost. After that a replacement search runs at no additional recruitment cost, and engagements carry a 60-day cancellation notice so there is a proper handover rather than a sudden gap.
Brief the role. See a shortlist within 5–10 business days.
Named, vetted candidates with recordings, prior work and references — plus a flat monthly seat cost in your own currency.