Global Payroll Infrastructure
Led product for Deel's global payroll infrastructure, enabling compliant payroll in 150+ countries for thousands of companies.
Overview
Led product for the core payroll infrastructure that processes millions in worker payments across 150+ countries monthly.
Problem
Global payroll is a coordination problem at scale: each country has different tax rules, payment timelines, and compliance requirements. The existing system was built market-by-market and had accumulated years of inconsistency.
Approach
- Conducted discovery interviews with operations, compliance, and finance teams across 8 markets
- Identified the common abstraction layer that could handle 80% of markets without customization
- Designed a rule-engine approach for country-specific logic rather than hardcoded branches
- Ran a 3-month pilot in 5 markets before rolling out globally
Outcomes
- Reduced payroll processing errors by 40%
- Cut time-to-onboard a new country from 3 months to 3 weeks
- Enabled self-serve compliance updates without engineering involvement