WorkMotion
Global employment (Employer of Record) platform: hire, onboard, and pay staff in 160+ countries without a local entity. Founded 2020, Berlin. CEO Carsten Lebtig. ~$64M raised (Series B, Canaan).
What is WorkMotion?
WorkMotion is a global employment platform built around Employer of Record (EOR) services. Companies use it to hire, onboard, and manage employees in more than 160 countries without setting up their own local legal entity, WorkMotion becomes the compliant local employer on their behalf, generating locally compliant contracts in minutes and handling payroll, benefits, and the rest of the employee lifecycle in each country's language and legal framework. This makes it a real enabler of the kind of cross-border remote hiring this board is built around, since it is often the mechanism that lets a company legally employ someone in a country it does not otherwise operate in. WorkMotion was founded in 2020 in Berlin by Carsten Lebtig, who is CEO, along with Felix Steffens and Karim Zaghloul. It has raised roughly $64 million in total funding across three rounds, including a $50 million Series B led by Canaan, with participation from Activant Capital, XAnge, Picus Capital, Heliad Equity Partners, and GR Capital.
Mission & values
Make it effortless for companies to hire compliantly anywhere in the world, so talent and opportunity are not limited by where a company has a legal entity.
Qualifications
WorkMotion hires across the functions of a global HR-tech and EOR platform. On the technical side: software engineering (backend, frontend, full-stack, and the systems that handle multi-country payroll, contracts, and compliance data), data and analytics, and product management and design. Because its core service is compliant global employment, it hires heavily in legal, HR compliance, and international payroll and benefits operations, along with country-specific implementation and customer success roles that support client companies as they onboard employees abroad. It also hires sales, partnerships, marketing, finance, and people functions. Application flow lives at workmotion.com/company (careers). WorkMotion is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and given its own product and mission, likely offers remote or hybrid options for many roles, though eligible countries, work authorization, and any office expectations vary by posting, so check each one directly.
Leadership
Carsten Lebtig
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Co-founded WorkMotion in 2020 and leads it as CEO, building a global employment platform that lets companies hire compliantly in 160+ countries without a local entity.
Felix Steffens
Co-Founder
Co-founded WorkMotion in 2020, part of the founding team behind its global Employer of Record platform.
Karim Zaghloul
Co-Founder
Co-founded WorkMotion in 2020, part of the founding team building its compliant global-hiring technology.
Hiring process
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Apply at workmotion.com careers
Browse engineering, product, design, legal/compliance, payroll operations, customer success, and go-to-market roles and submit through the WorkMotion careers site.
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Recruiter screen
Confirms role fit, level, eligible location and work authorization, remote/hybrid expectations, and pay.
About 7 days
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3
Technical or role-specific interview
Engineering/data: coding and system design. Legal/compliance: a global-employment scenario. Customer success: an implementation case.
About 10 days
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4
Team interviews
Cross-functional interviews with the team on depth, collaboration, and fit.
About 10 days
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5
Offer
Offer with base plus equity where applicable, aligned to role and location.
About 7 days
Funding
Awards & recognition
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Raised a $50M Series B led by Canaan for global employment infrastructure · 2025
WorkMotion
Company information
- Industry: HR Tech / Global Employment (EOR)
- Location: Berlin, Germany (remote-friendly; global reach)
- Founded: 2020
- Company size: 201-1000
- Website: workmotion.com ↗
- LinkedIn: Company page ↗