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Global Mobility Lead

PerplexityPeople & HRPeople
Pay
$125K–$225K
per year
Work mode
Hybrid
Full Time
Experience
6+ yrs
Senior

San Francisco, CA at a glance

Rent
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$2,680/mo+46% vs US avg
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295 mild days0 hot · 0 cold
Income tax
#1 of 51
13.3% top rateCalifornia

What you need

  • 6+ yrs global mobility ownership
  • US immigration fluency plus UK/EU/Canada
  • Strong analytical skills: spreadsheets, HRIS reporting
  • Risk judgment: escalation, classification, permanent establishment
  • Excellent written communication for policies, letters, recommendations

What you'll do

  • Own mobility policy suite end-to-end
  • Run cross-border mobility cases from scoping to landing
  • Manage immigration casework: H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, green card
  • Build mobility tracking layer and dashboards
  • Own vendor stack: immigration counsel, relocation, tax, EOR

What you’ll own


Global mobility

  • Own the mobility policy suite end to end: relocation, permanent transfers, short-term and long-term international assignments, remote/cross-border work arrangements, and business travel thresholds.

  • Run individual mobility cases from scoping to landing: package design, cost estimates, immigration sequencing, tax and social-security implications, payroll setup, relocation logistics, and post-arrival support.

  • Manage employment-based immigration casework in partnership with outside counsel: H-1B (including cap-subject and change-of-employer/AC21 timing), L-1, TN, E-3, O-1, F-1 OPT/CPT, and employer-sponsored permanent residence. Own the internal timeline, the start-date reality check, and the manager/candidate communication.

  • Own daily immigration intake and case execution, including employer questionnaires, supporting documents, employment verification letters, signatures, counsel follow ups, and case closure.

  • Own right-to-work compliance across jurisdictions: I-9 and E-Verify in the US, Home Office share-code checks in the UK, and equivalent checks in our EU and other markets.

  • Decide and document the entity/employment model for each new market (direct entity, EOR, or non-resident payroll registration) with Finance and Legal.

  • Own our mobility vendor stack (immigration counsel, relocation, tax, EOR/global payroll): scope, SLAs, cost, and performance.

  • Model and track mobility cost, including sponsorship and premium-processing fees, so leadership can make go/no-go calls with real numbers, and obtain and document required approvals before committing sponsorship or spend

Data and systems

  • Build the tracking layer: mobility case pipeline, immigration deadlines and expirations, compensation comparisons, etc.

  • Stand up mobility dashboards: case volume, cycle time, cost per move, band penetration, offer-to-band variance, and equity-gap trend.

  • Write the employee-facing documentation so moves and pay decisions are predictable and explainable, not one-off negotiations.

What we’re looking for

Required

  • 6+ years of experience in global mobility, with real ownership of cross-border moves and immigration casework, not just vendor hand-offs.

  • Working fluency in US employment-based immigration and at least one other major jurisdiction’s work-authorization regime (UK, EU, or Canada).

  • Strong analytical skills: comfortable in spreadsheets and HRIS reporting, able to build a defensible model and explain the assumptions behind it.

  • Judgment about risk. You know when to escalate to Legal, when to flag classification or permanent-establishment exposure, and how to say no clearly.

  • Excellent written communication: you’ll draft policies, verification letters, offer rationales, and executive-facing recommendations.

  • Comfort with ambiguity, high volume, and shifting priorities.

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