Global Mobility Manager, Strategic Initiatives

About the role

OpenAI is building a world-class global mobility and immigration programagile compliant technology-enabled and designed to help exceptional people work where they can have the greatest this role you will lead high-impact strategic initiatives including U.S. permanent residence strategy M&A organizational change and global expansion.

This is a senior individual-contributor role for a builder who can translate legal and operational complexity into clear practical solutions. Reporting to the Head of Global Mobility & Immigration you will partner with the broader team and lead through expertise and influence across Legal Corporate Development Recruiting People Finance business teams and external counsel to turn emerging business needs into scalable programs policies and durable controls.

What youll do

• Set the roadmap principles governance and operating model for priority global mobility and immigration initiatives.

• Lead the U.S. permanent residence strategy including PERM planning controls communications compliance and continuous improvement.

• Own immigration and mobility workstreams for M&A divestitures restructurings entity changes and new-market entryfrom diligence through integration.

• Lead global expansion strategy ensuring work authorization business travel and compliance in rapidly growing international jurisdictions.

• Build reusable playbooks decision frameworks risk assessments and change-management plans.

• Partner with Legal Corporate Development Recruiting People Finance and business leaders to identify implications early and drive sound decisions.

• Establish dashboards and program-health measures covering compliance cycle time quality cost vendor performance and employee experience.

• Manage external counsel and vendor partners through clear service levels quality standards budgets and outcomes.

• Use systems automation and AI-enabled tools to improve case handling documentation communications and leadership visibility.

You might thrive in this role if you

• Bring 7 years of progressive experience in corporate immigration global mobility or related program management.

• Have deep knowledge of U.S. employment-based immigration including PERM I-140 adjustment of status and major nonimmigrant visa categories.

• Have built or materially improved a complex immigration or mobility program in a fast-growing multinational environment.

• Bring experience supporting M&A restructurings entity changes new-market entry or another significant business transformation.

• Can turn technical requirements into practical policies controls workflows and clear guidance for employees and business partners.

• Have a track record of leading complex cross-functional programs influencing senior stakeholders and driving decisions through ambiguity.

• Use data systems and automation to improve compliance visibility efficiency and service quality.

• Communicate with precision exercise sound judgment and balance employee experience with business and compliance needs.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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