Growth marketers drive acquisition, run experiments, and optimize marketing campaigns across channels, often from different countries and time zones.

Paying them internationally creates operational complexity that most companies underestimate until they're buried in spreadsheets, compliance gaps, and failed wire transfers.

Rise is a global payroll, onboarding, and compliance platform that eliminates this friction.
Companies that implement Rise's worklfows fund payroll once, and growth marketers choose how they want to be paid: fiat, stablecoins, crypto, or a mix.

Key Takeaways

  • Employers only send an invite and growth marketers complete onboarding, KYC, and banking setup themselves.
  • Fund payroll in USD or USDC/USDT: Rise accepts bank transfers or crypto wallet funding.
  • Growth marketers choose their withdrawal currency every cycle (Local fiat, stablecoins, crypto, or any combination), controlled by the worker, not the employer.
  • Rise automates compliance across 190+ countries: KYC/AML, tax documentation, and compliant agreements handled automatically.

How to Pay International Growth Marketers With Rise

How to Pay International Growth Marketers

Step 1: Invite Your Growth Marketer

Employers do one thing: send an email invite through Rise.

The growth marketer handles everything else:

  • Accepts the invite
  • Completes KYC verification
  • Completes identity verification
  • Adds banking details and/or crypto wallets
  • Selects payout preferences
Rise generates compliant contractor agreements automatically based on the worker's jurisdiction. Employers never enter contractor banking info, crypto addresses, or personal details.

Step 2: Fund Payroll

Rise supports two funding options:

  • USD via bank transfer
  • USDC/USDT from a crypto wallet

Companies with traditional treasuries fund in USD.
Web3 teams, DAOs, and crypto-native companies fund directly from wallets.

Step 3: Growth Marketer Chooses Withdrawal Currency

Growth marketers choose their own withdrawal method every cycle.
Rise supports and multiple payment methods and offers hybrid payroll services:

  • Local currency (90+ supported)
  • USDC or USDT
  • 100+ other crypto assets
  • Any combination (hybrid split)

Employers fund payroll, but workers control their own withdrawal currency.

A growth marketer in Brazil might withdraw 50% in BRL and 50% in USDC. Next month, they can change it entirely without employer involvement.

Step 4: Rise Handles Compliance

Rise automates:

  • KYC/AML verification before any payment processes
  • Tax documentation generated and stored per jurisdiction
  • Compliant agreements by country
  • Identity verification

Payment Structures Rise Supports for Growth Marketers

Growth marketers work on varied compensation models depending on their strategy and engagement type. Rise handles all of them:

  • Monthly retainers: Standard for ongoing engagements
  • Biweekly payments: Common for performance-based roles
  • Milestone-based payments: Tied to campaign launches or KPIs
  • One-off payments: Project fees, bonuses, or transitions
  • Hourly billing: For fractional or part-time growth marketers

Rise supports instant mass payouts, meaning companies paying multiple growth marketers across different countries can process everything simultaneously.

Why Growth Marketers Prefer Stablecoin Withdrawals

Growth marketers in countries with currency volatility, such as Argentina, Nigeria, Turkey and Pakistan, face a specific problem: local currency loses value between invoice and payout.

Rise solves this by offering stablecoin payroll.

Growth marketers receive USDC or USDT instantly, avoiding:

  • Local banking delays
  • Currency fluctuation between payment cycles
  • Correspondent banking fees

Rise ID creates a reusable on-chain identity. Growth marketers complete KYC once and carry their verified work identity across engagements, no repeated verification with each new client.

Conclusion

Paying international growth marketers requires compliant agreements, tax documentation, identity verification, and flexible withdrawal options. Rise automates all of it from one dashboard.

Employers fund payroll in USD or USDC/USDT and growth marketers choose how they get paid: fiat, crypto, or both, every cycle.

To see how Rise can streamline your global growth marketing payroll, book a demo and get started in minutes.
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FAQs:

1. What's the easiest way to pay a growth marketer in another country?

Use Rise. Send an email invite, fund payroll in USD or USDC/USDT, and let the growth marketer choose their withdrawal currency. Rise handles KYC, tax documentation, and compliant agreements automatically.

2. Can growth marketers choose to be paid in crypto?

Yes. Growth marketers select their withdrawal method every cycle, local currency, USDC, USDT, other crypto, or any combination. Employers do not control this; the worker decides each time.

3. How does Rise handle tax documentation for international contractors?

Rise generates and stores tax documentation automatically based on the contractor's jurisdiction. This includes W-8BEN forms for US companies and local equivalents where required.

4. What currencies can growth marketers withdraw in?

Rise supports 90+ local currencies and 100+ crypto assets, including USDC and USDT. Growth marketers can split withdrawals between fiat and crypto in any ratio.

5. How much does Rise cost for paying contractors?

Rise contractor payroll is only $49/month. No percentage of payroll volume.

6. Can I pay a growth marketer as a full-time employee instead of a contractor?

Yes. Rise offers Employer of Record (EOR) services that let companies hire full-time employees globally without opening a local entity. Rise is constantly launching new EOR countries and will be live in 60+ EOR markets by end of 2026.

7. How long does it take to onboard a growth marketer on Rise?

The whole process is completed in minutes. Employers send an invite, and the growth marketer completes KYC, identity verification, and banking setup through self-service onboarding.

8. Does Rise protect against contractor misclassification?

Yes. Rise offers Agent of Record (AOR) services where Rise becomes the legal contracting entity, ensuring compliance across 190+ contractor markets. Unlike legacy providers or a typical g-p contractor setup, Rise automates the entire compliance workflow.

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