Description:
Coinbase's remote-first environment prioritizes employee choice in living and working locations while promoting equity, opportunity, growth, and inclusion. A strong global mobility team is crucial for this policy. The Senior Global Mobility Specialist is the immigration and relocation subject matter expert at Coinbase, advising stakeholders on policy, scaling processes, managing vendors, and handling escalations on employee cases.
What you’ll be doing:
- Serve as primary subject matter expert on all aspects of global immigration (e.g., visas, work permit and permanent resident processes)
- Consult with employees and stakeholders on international assignment and relocation offerings, including visa processing, housing, schooling, and transportation
- Advise on policy changes related to immigration and relocation
- Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders throughout the relocation process, providing ongoing support and guidance.
- Collaborate with HR, Legal and Finance departments to ensure smooth operations and address any escalations related to global mobility.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of immigration laws and practices across different countries.
- Ensuring trackers and case management tools are maintained to support immigration, reocation, and tax cases
- Manage relationships with external vendors and service providers involved in relocation and immigration processes.
- Monitoring performance of vendors and hold them accountable for meeting SLAs
- Handle day-to-day inquiries regarding global mobility policies
- Examine global mobility process
What we look for in you:
- Bachelor degree in human resources or a related field
- Minimum of 7 years HR experience, with 5 years of experience in global mobility experience at a company with a globally-distributed workforce
- Experience with writing and scaling global mobility policies
- Knowledgeable about global immigration laws, with specific experience working with a workforce in North America, South America, EMEA, and APAC
- Experience with managing relocation and immigration/work authorization vendors
- Strong knowledge of global immigration laws and processes, and knowledge of industry, market and regulatory changes in areas of immigration, relocation and mobility taxation
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