#443 Smooth International Hiring with Yaron Lavi, CTO of Deel

Today we’re talking to Yaron Lavi, the CTO of Deel. And we discuss how Deel simplifies hiring remote workers internationally. Tips for managing hyperscale, and how to properly align incentives with your employees’ motivations.

All of this right here, right now, on the ModernCTO Podcast! 

To learn more about Deel, check them out at https://www.letsdeel.com

About Yaron Lavi:

Yaron Lavi is CTO of Deel, a company helping anyone anywhere in the world find a job. The startup makes it easier for businesses to hire, onboard, pay, and comply with local laws using a powerful online platform. Before Deel, Yaron was at Zira, heading up R&D. He has deep experience in building and managing software products and architecture, designing aspects of infra, data, backend, and frontend systems.

About Deel:

How we work has changed. In real-time, we can collaborate on Zoom, design new products, and attend (virtual) events from anywhere in the world.

The one big issue? Tools to hire and pay international teams haven't kept up. International hiring can be messy. With confusing local laws, complicated taxes, and even hefty fines (if you don't get it right).

Why does hiring an employee in another country still take months? How do you hire contractors without unintentionally breaking local laws? And why wasn't there a great tool for all this?

At Deel, we envision a worldwide workforce that isn’t limited by boundaries, but we needed to change some things to make this a reality. So we went back to the drawing board (our laptops) to tackle these problems and create a tool to enable remote teams to grow.

By solving these issues, we quickly realized we could open thousands of virtual doors around the world. Meaning more companies from more places could hire fantastic talent. And people from more regions could get the jobs they wanted. Anyone in the world could finally work everywhere.

Now, we’ve raised our Series D led by Coatue of $425 million, bringing Deel’s valuation to $5.5 billion. With our Series D we’ll be focusing on some exciting things to shape the future of work. Starting with launching Deel Premium to further protect companies against misclassification risks, bringing Global Payroll to every business in the world, releasing our Open API, and opening a total of 80 live Deel-owned entities (with 60 live already) to make employee hiring a breeze.