Global Mobility Compliance Specialist (APAC)

➡️ About the role

Successful businesses think globally – but complex compliance challenges create significant barriers to global operations, forcing teams to spend vast amounts of time, money, and energy on administration instead of strategic priorities.

Traditional compliance approaches are too slow, vague, and expensive for modern business dynamics. That's why we've built the platform that automates compliance and duty of care for business travel, workations, and international assignments.

Our vision: A world where global business knows no borders – where compliance is effortless, so growth has no limits.

Your role in this mission: We're seeking an experienced Global Mobility Compliance Specialist to own the APAC region. You'll translate tax, payroll, social security, employment law, and immigration requirements across APAC's diverse markets into practical frameworks that power our compliance automation platform - and you'll build the on-the-ground network of local partners that makes fast, compliant execution possible across such a fragmented regulatory landscape.

🎯 What you will do

• Translate tax, payroll, social security, employment law, and immigration requirements across key APAC markets into practical compliance frameworks and decision logic for WorkFlex's platform

⭐ What you need to succeed

• 3+ years in Global Mobility, APAC immigration/tax compliance, or international HR, with hands-on assignment experience from a policy, compliance, analytics, or process perspective

• Working knowledge of work authorization and payroll/tax rules across multiple APAC markets; deep expertise in Singapore and/or Malaysia is a strong plus given the regional base

• A track record of building and managing relationships with external partners or vendors — you know how to vet a good immigration lawyer or payroll provider in a new market and keep the relationship productive

• Strong analytical skills and a genuine interest in automation and systems thinking

• Fluent English; Mandarin, Bahasa Malaysia, or Japanese a plus given the regional scope

• A structured, independent working style with an ownership mentality, comfortable balancing accuracy, pragmatism, and speed in a client-facing environment

• Based centrally in APAC (Singapore or Kuala Lumpur preferred) with willingness to travel within the region as needed.

🚀 Why join us at WorkFlex

• Contribute to building the future of the fastest-growing HR tech startup in Germany backed by prominent customers such as Scout24, BioNTech, and others, as well as funding from top-tier VC and angel investors.

• Competitive salary and VSOPs (Virtual Stock Options) to share in our success.

• A monthly budget of €200 to spend on 🏢 co-working space and/or 🏃‍♀️ sports subscriptions.

• Work from anywhere in a remote-only company and go on workations for up to 183 days a year.

• Merit-based culture with substantial growth opportunities.

• Trust-based work – organize your own schedule. We want to celebrate results, not hours spent working.

• Collaborative team culture where everyone's input is valued to shape sales efforts, approaches, and processes.

• President's Club - Each year, our top 10% of performers are rewarded with an exclusive luxury getaway, fully covered by the company.

We may use AI-assisted tools to support parts of our recruitment process. These tools help our team review applications more efficiently, and all hiring decisions are made by humans.