Global Mobility Lead

Perplexity•San Francisco, CA

1d•$125,000 - $225,000

About The Position

This role involves owning the global mobility policy suite end-to-end, including relocation, permanent transfers, short-term and long-term international assignments, remote/cross-border work arrangements, and business travel thresholds. The lead will run individual mobility cases from scoping to landing, covering package design, cost estimates, immigration sequencing, tax and social-security implications, payroll setup, relocation logistics, and post-arrival support. A key responsibility is managing employment-based immigration casework in partnership with outside counsel, handling various visa types and permanent residency processes. The role also includes owning daily immigration intake and case execution, right-to-work compliance across jurisdictions, and deciding/documenting the entity/employment model for new markets with Finance and Legal. Additionally, the lead will manage the mobility vendor stack and model/track mobility costs. On the data and systems front, the role requires building a tracking layer for mobility cases and immigration deadlines, standing up mobility dashboards, and writing employee-facing documentation.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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.
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.