Program Manager, Global Mobility & Immigration

Fal

$120K — $145K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Licensed to practice law in the U.S.
  • Minimum 7 years of experience in employment-based immigration cases including H-1B, TN, L-1, O-1, PERM, and adjustment.
  • Experience working with counsel in EMEA and APAC regions.
  • Strong familiarity with immigration policies and compliance frameworks.
  • Proven ability to automate processes and improve workflow efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee all aspects of visa sponsorship and work authorizations from start to finish.
  • Collaborate with external counsel for immigration matters in international regions.
  • Develop and implement comprehensive mobility and immigration policies.
  • Manage vendor relationships and service expectations for immigration and relocation services.
  • Automate paperwork processes using internal tools and tech solutions.
  • Analyze metrics related to immigration cases, identifying trends and risks.
  • Ensure a supportive experience for employees navigating immigration challenges.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for challenging and impactful work.
  • Attractive employee equity terms, including early and extended exercise options.
  • Access to professional development and growth opportunities.
  • Company supports visa sponsorship and relocation assistance to San Francisco.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for U.S. employees.
  • Regularly scheduled team events and offsite gatherings.
Full Job Description
Why this role exists

We hire the people who are best at generative media, and they are rarely already living in the country we need them in. Today that means visa timelines, relocations, work authorization and cross-border employment questions land wherever there's a spare pair of hands - a recruiter, an ops lead, outside counsel who bills by the hour and doesn't know our roadmap.

We want one person to own all of it. Not a coordinator sitting on top of a law firm - someone who knows the law well enough to make the call, and cares enough about the experience that a first-time visa holder never feels like a ticket in a queue.

What you'll own

Every case, start to finish. Sponsorship, renewals, permanent residence, work authorization, transfers, relocations - Americas, EMEA, APAC. You're the first person an employee, a manager or our counsel talks to, and the last one to close the loop.

Licensed to practice in the U.S., in-house. You're the expert here, not a router to a law firm. For EMEA and APAC you choose counsel, brief them properly, and pressure-test what comes back.

The policy, before we need it. Mobility and immigration policy, assignment structures, cost projections, compliance frameworks. Written down, actually followed, and sized for a company that will look different in a year.

The vendor bench. Immigration counsel, relocation and mobility providers. You set the service expectations, hold people to them, and replace whoever isn't earning it.

The paperwork, automated. Case intake, status tracking, document collection, deadline chasing. We build our own internal tools here - you'll have engineers who'd rather ship you something than watch you maintain a spreadsheet by hand. Your time should go to the hard cases, not the predictable ones.

The numbers. Cost per case, time to authorization, where risk is concentrated, which countries are getting harder. You bring the trend to the table before it becomes a surprise.

You'll thrive here
  • You've personally run US and Canadian employment-based cases - H-1B, TN, L-1, O-1, PERM, adjustment. You've written the argument, not just forwarded the RFE. (Roughly seven years is what that usually takes, but we care about the cases, not the calendar.)
  • You've worked NAMER, EMEA and APAC through local counsel and know which questions surface the problem early, before it's a rejection.
  • Being the entire function sounds good rather than alarming. There's no mobility team here to join. You are it, and you'll build the rest.
  • You automate your own job. You reach for AI and tooling by reflex, and you're allergic to a tracker that only stays current because you keep typing into it.
  • You're good with people on the worst day of their year - a denial, a delay, a spouse's work permit, a school year that doesn't line up. Warmth and discretion under pressure, with details that can't be gotten wrong.
  • You'd rather write the policy than wait for one to exist.


Location
  • San Francisco; onsite five days a week.
What we offer at fal
  • Interesting and challenging work
  • Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)
  • A lot of learning and growth opportunities
  • We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
  • Regular team events and offsites

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