Scaling with Deel: A Founder’s Guide to Building a Global Team, Stage by Stage

Deel removes the legal, compliance, and admin headaches so you can move fast without cutting compliance corners:

1. Start hiring contractors across borders with Deel Contractor: Offer compliant contracts and built-in tax documentation, seamlessly onboard and pay contractors with automated invoicing and payments in 120+ supported currencies.
2. Hire and pay your first full-time hires, even without entities with Deel EOR: Hire and pay the best talent from 150 countries. Deel becomes the legal employer, so you don’t have to set up entities yourself or become a global labor law expert.
3. Start managing your people with Deel Global HRIS (optional): Start tracking time off and managing worker data and documents in one place, even if you’re not ready for full HR ops yet.

Deel centralizes your global hiring, people ops, and compliance, without needing in-house expertise in every country:

1. Keep growing your team with Deel Contractor and Deel EOR: These solutions remain foundational. You can hire fast across borders with built-in compliance and still defer entity setup until it makes sense.
2. Tap into a global talent pipeline with Deel Talent: Access vetted global sourcing partners to help you scale specialized roles faster.
3. Start establishing entities with Deel Entity Setup (optional): For founders launching revenue or sales teams in new markets, Deel can establish local entities early, while you focus on product and growth.
4. Run compliant payroll everywhere with Deel Global Payroll: Run unified payroll across 100+ countries. Pay EOR employees, contractors, and local employees in one platform.
5. Manage equity grants with Deel Equity: Begin tracking employee equity grants with region-specific context, even if you’re not issuing them at scale yet.
6. Manage your team with Deel Global HRIS: Switch from spreadsheets to a truly global HRIS that is your single source of truth for all workers, employees, contractors, and EORs alike.
7. Start automating time-consuming processes with Deel’s Workflow Builder and Deel AI: Automate onboarding, document flows, and task tracking while surfacing country-specific insights.
8. Localized compliance: Stay ahead of labor laws, benefits, and mandatory policy changes across regions.
9. Provision equipment to your workforce with Deel IT: Provision laptops and SaaS tools to new hires globally, directly from the Deel platform.

Deel becomes your people operations engine, centralizing everything from compensation to engagement. With Deel, you finally get the structure, visibility, and automation needed to support your team at scale:

• Leverage the advanced features of our Global HRIS: Use org charts to instantly visualize reporting lines across functions and countries, define custom roles and access controls for advanced data protection, customize workflows with advanced segmentation, type a natural-language prompt like “Show me all employees in sales hired after Q1 in Germany,” Deel translates it to the right filters instantly
• Scale entity creation: Whether transitioning from EOR or launching new ops, Deel manages your entity rollout.
• Contractor and EOR workflows continue to be critical, especially as you expand into less predictable or temporary markets.
• Build a compensation strategy with Deel Compensation: Build salary bands, ensure pay transparency compliance, and run equitable comp review cycles.
• Expand equity operations: Track grants, stay compliant with local tax laws, and educate employees on value.
• Develop internal talent with Deel Engage: Run (360°) feedback reviews, set and track goals, and enable career planning, learning, and leadership development. If you have limited capacity, you can add-on consulting services for building performance review cycles, internal surveys, learning courses, and more.
• Managed HR services: Get help from Deel experts on HR topics, such as updating job descriptions to reflect role responsibilities and requirements, HR metrics reporting, assistance with the new hire onboarding process, policy compliance review, severance guidance, notice period compliance, and more.
• Build workforce insights: Run real-time reporting across regions, roles, and contracts. Spot retention risks, plan for headcount growth, and align hiring with budget forecasts.
• Supercharge your operations with Deel AI: Get granular insights into your team, local compliance laws, and more. Trained by HR and compliance experts across 150 countries, it’s integrated with your people data for smarter, faster decision-making.

Deel acts as your strategic system of record, consolidating people data, streamlining compliance, and enabling smarter decisions:

• Headcount planning and reporting with Deel Workforce Planning: Visualize org structure, track global headcount, simulate growth scenarios, and align hiring with budgets.
• Offer your team global mobility with Deel Immigration: Support employee relocation, visa sponsorship, and tax compliance across all operating countries.
• Integrated benefits management with Deel Benefits Admin: Employees can build and manage their healthcare and retirement coverage. It integrates with carriers and payroll to automate HR tasks and reduce manual work.
• Equity management: Handle global equity compensation with country-specific tax insights and reporting.
• Seamless data flow: Connect Deel to your finance, payroll, and HR ecosystem through 110+ integrations and APIs, including Workday, SAP, and Greenhouse.
• Governance and controls: Create secure, role-based approval chains across HR, Finance, and Legal. Track every edit, approval, and version with Deel’s audit-ready logs.
• Data infrastructure and IPO readiness: Deel is SOC 1, 2, and 3, GDPR, and ISO 27001 compliant, ensuring data integrity, security, and auditability.

At this scale, every function relies on Deel. Deel becomes your people operating system, spanning the full worker lifecycle with automation, analytics, and enterprise-grade security, without the enterprise bloat.

• All-in-one HR and payroll platform: Hire, pay, onboard, reward, relocate, retain, and report—across countries—in one place.
• White-label infrastructure: Use Deel’s global infrastructure and self-owned entities, but keep your brand front and center. You scale globally, but look and feel local to every employee.
• Built for every user:
  • Workers: Intuitive onboarding, benefits access, pay transparency, and support for all worker types.
  • Managers: Self-serve workflows, goal setting, and team reporting.
  • HR admins: One dashboard for time-off, comp, docs, equity, compliance, and provisioning.
  • Executives: Real-time dashboards for headcount, spend, performance, and risk.
• Enterprise-grade integrations: Deep sync with ERP, ATS, and security tools (SAP, Workday, Okta, Netsuite).
• User enablement with Deel Academy: Empower your HR team and people managers with training, compliance education, and workflow mastery, without additional fees.
• Security and governance: SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO-compliant. Full audit trails, policy updates, and entity-specific guardrails.
• Integrated cost clarity: When your people data, payroll, equity, and performance live in one place, you save money and make faster, better decisions. No more chasing spreadsheets across seven tools.