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About the Role

Snap's Global Immigration team is seeking an experienced Lead, Immigration to scale the company's U.S. immigration program. This new individual contributor role will collaborate with internal immigration specialists and external counsel to manage U.S. employment-based immigration matters, ensuring compliance and efficiency in recruiting, hiring, and retaining global talent.

Responsibilities

• Manage U.S. employment-based immigration matters for candidates and team members, including nonimmigrant and immigrant processes such as H-1B, TN, L-1, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1 OPT/STEM OPT, and green card-related cases.
• Support green card and permanent residence workflows, including coordination of case initiation, employee communications, PERM-related activities, and stakeholder education.
• Maintain strong compliance practices, including case tracking, records management, posting/public access file processes, audit readiness, and accurate documentation standards.
• Manage and escalate complex or sensitive cases with external immigration counsel, balancing legal guidance, employee experience, business continuity, and Snap policy.
• Share knowledge with recruiters, HR partners, and business leaders, to raise capability and consistency across the immigration process.
• Drive process improvements across the U.S. immigration program to improve program quality and drive efficiency.
• Quickly adjust Snap immigration programs and practices to deal with changes in US immigration law and operating norms.
• Draft clear, succinct, and timely memos to team members and leaders to communicate US immigration policy changes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of relevant experience managing U.S. employment-based immigration matters in an in-house, law firm, or external vendor environment.
• Hands-on experience supporting a range of U.S. visa and permanent residence processes, including H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, F-1/OPT/STEM OPT, and green card workflows.
• Experience partnering with external immigration counsel and internal stakeholders to drive compliant, timely case outcomes.
• Experience managing confidential information with professionalism and discretion.
• Working knowledge of immigration practices and law in Canada, UK, and middle eastern counties.
• Experience supporting immigration in a multinational technology company.
• Experience with Workday.
• Experience identifying automation or AI-enabled process improvements in operational workflows.
• Track record of gathering, cleansing and analyzing data to support program strategies.

Skills

• Deep working knowledge of U.S. employment-based immigration programs, including both nonimmigrant and immigrant case types, common timelines, and operational risk points.
• Strong understanding of how immigration intersects with recruiting, onboarding, mobility, compensation, location changes, and employee lifecycle events.
• Ability to translate technical immigration concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-experts.
• Excellent project management, prioritization, and follow-through across a high-volume case portfolio with competing deadlines.
• Strong vendor-management and stakeholder-management skills, including experience working with outside counsel and cross-functional partners.
• High attention to detail and strong operational discipline in a compliance-heavy environment.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and empathy when handling sensitive employee matters and evolving policy environments.
• Comfort in managing competing interests, and knowing when to escalate.
• Experience leveraging process improvement techniques to improve workflows, program effectiveness, and to enable scaling.

Location

• United States

Work Type

• Onsite (4+ days per week)

Experience Level

• 6+ years of relevant experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Salary/Compensations

• Zone A (CA, WA, NYC): $142,000-$214,000 annually
• Zone B: $135,000-$203,000 annually
• Zone C: $121,000-$182,000 annually
• Eligible for equity in the form of RSUs

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Comprehensive medical coverage
• Emotional and mental health support programs
• Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success

About the Company

• Snap Inc. is a technology company that believes the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.
• The Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app, and Specs Inc., a subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.
• Snap's Global Immigration team ensures the company can recruit, hire, and retain the best talent globally.
• Snap Inc. believes that being together in person helps build culture faster, reinforce values, and serve community, customers, and partners better through dynamic collaboration.
• Snap is committed to having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices to create innovative products.

Equal Opportunity

• Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
• EOE, including disability/vets.
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).