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Benefits Specialist roles in the U.S. qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship when the position requires a degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field. The E-3 has no lottery and no annual cap, so you can apply as soon as you have a job offer from a U.S. employer willing to file the Labor Condition Application.
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Intuit takes pride in providing exceptional benefits for our employees around the globe and creating “done-for-you” experiences for our employees to engage with their benefits. Global benefits operations are the vital engine that enables Intuit to provide these benefits and help our employees thrive.
We are looking for a manager of Global Benefits Processes and Operations to bring both tactical and strategic excellence to this role. Your deep subject matter expertise, quality obsession and stakeholder management skills drive you to collaborate and align on every detail across your myriad of partners - other members of the Benefits team, HRIS, payroll, legal, tax, shared services, HR support, communications and various external vendors - to deliver a seamless, flawless experience for our employees. Your rich experience and strategic vision enable you to anticipate barriers or complexity, proactively raise opportunities to simplify the design or operations, plan with our partners effectively for resources, and advise the Benefits team on timing or approach so we avoid overloading our partners and ecosystem. You are agile, collaborative, pragmatic and solution-oriented. You are curious, welcome diverse perspectives, engage in respectful debate, and do not hesitate to share your own ideas and concerns. You build coalitions naturally. You are committed to quality and excellence above all else; you take accountability easily and ask “how can I help?” You'll lead and develop a talented team responsible for global benefits operations and processes. Your scope includes:
- Benefits administration, including annual enrollment, management of the vendors that administer our enrollment, integration with payroll and HRIS, and data audits and controls
- Implementation of benefit changes and new vendors
- M&A integrations and country expansions
- Process improvements and efficiencies
- Data warehouse management and expansion
You will manage a process-focused team where you excel at adding disciplined rigor and efficiencies. With that in mind, your scope may grow over time to include other recurring processes that exist within Benefits.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and cultivate the growth of a high performing team responsible for global benefits operations in all of our existing geographies
- Serve as deep subject matter expert on benefits operations and implementations; using your expertise to lead the team at scale, ensure the team is delivering with excellence and anticipating complexities
- Ensure excellence in day-to-day benefits operations and administration, including transaction processing, performing financial reconciliations and consistency checks across multiple sources of data, and ensuring the accuracy of payroll deductions
- Manage vendor relationships and performance for outsourced benefits administration, holding vendors accountable while maintaining productive, collaborative relationships
- Lead annual enrollment, including updating administrative systems, testing, leading cross functional efforts, managing timelines and reviewing communications
- Manage points of data integration and ensure a seamless data flow across benefits systems, HRIS and payroll
- Develop, maintain and execute playbooks and standards of practice to ensure we are conducting regular quality checks, applying appropriate controls, and have sustainable protocols and operational excellence
- Lead the benefits operations related to M&A, including vendor transitions, benefits enrollment and partnering with HRIS, payroll and benefits administrators for eligibility files and integrations
- Lead the implementation of benefit enhancements and new vendors, ensuring timely alignment, planned resources, and deep cohesion across all impacted teams - Benefits, HRIS, payroll, legal, finance, tax, communications, sourcing, information security, and others as needed.
- Actively contribute to the Benefits team roadmap using your expertise, such as anticipating and alleviating implementation bottlenecks where the same teams are impacted by multiple initiatives, suggesting design alterations that could simplify operations, reduce risk or improve the employee experience, and driving enhancements or changes to our external benefits administration vendors
- Actively participate in the Benefits team stakeholder management efforts to ensure that there are no surprises amongst our key partners for upcoming and ongoing implementations and initiatives
- Identify and lead process improvement, automation, and AI-enablement opportunities within recurring benefits operations work.
- Partner in operationalizing the benefits data warehouse and developing dashboards and reporting that measure the effectiveness of benefit programs.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in global benefits operations, including US healthcare and 401(k) administration, as well as non-US benefits
- Proven experience leading teams through vendor transitions, plan design changes, and complex, multi-stakeholder implementations, including integrating new solutions into (or carving out of) US medical plans
- Demonstrated ability to build trust and collaboration across cross-functional partners (HRIS, payroll, tax, shared services, communications)
- Experience managing outsourced benefits administration vendors, including performance management and escalation
- Expertise with process improvement, automation, or AI-enabled efficiency work within benefits operations
- Strong people leadership skills, with a track record of developing team members and expanding their scope and confidence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate operational complexity into clear guidance for non-specialist audiences
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs. Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
The expected base pay range for this position is:
San Diego $188,500 - $255,000
Mountain View, CA $201,500 - $273,000
Overview
Intuit takes pride in providing exceptional benefits for our employees around the globe and creating “done-for-you” experiences for our employees to engage with their benefits. Global benefits operations are the vital engine that enables Intuit to provide these benefits and help our employees thrive.
We are looking for a manager of Global Benefits Processes and Operations to bring both tactical and strategic excellence to this role. Your deep subject matter expertise, quality obsession and stakeholder management skills drive you to collaborate and align on every detail across your myriad of partners - other members of the Benefits team, HRIS, payroll, legal, tax, shared services, HR support, communications and various external vendors - to deliver a seamless, flawless experience for our employees. Your rich experience and strategic vision enable you to anticipate barriers or complexity, proactively raise opportunities to simplify the design or operations, plan with our partners effectively for resources, and advise the Benefits team on timing or approach so we avoid overloading our partners and ecosystem. You are agile, collaborative, pragmatic and solution-oriented. You are curious, welcome diverse perspectives, engage in respectful debate, and do not hesitate to share your own ideas and concerns. You build coalitions naturally. You are committed to quality and excellence above all else; you take accountability easily and ask “how can I help?” You'll lead and develop a talented team responsible for global benefits operations and processes. Your scope includes:
- Benefits administration, including annual enrollment, management of the vendors that administer our enrollment, integration with payroll and HRIS, and data audits and controls
- Implementation of benefit changes and new vendors
- M&A integrations and country expansions
- Process improvements and efficiencies
- Data warehouse management and expansion
You will manage a process-focused team where you excel at adding disciplined rigor and efficiencies. With that in mind, your scope may grow over time to include other recurring processes that exist within Benefits.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and cultivate the growth of a high performing team responsible for global benefits operations in all of our existing geographies
- Serve as deep subject matter expert on benefits operations and implementations; using your expertise to lead the team at scale, ensure the team is delivering with excellence and anticipating complexities
- Ensure excellence in day-to-day benefits operations and administration, including transaction processing, performing financial reconciliations and consistency checks across multiple sources of data, and ensuring the accuracy of payroll deductions
- Manage vendor relationships and performance for outsourced benefits administration, holding vendors accountable while maintaining productive, collaborative relationships
- Lead annual enrollment, including updating administrative systems, testing, leading cross functional efforts, managing timelines and reviewing communications
- Manage points of data integration and ensure a seamless data flow across benefits systems, HRIS and payroll
- Develop, maintain and execute playbooks and standards of practice to ensure we are conducting regular quality checks, applying appropriate controls, and have sustainable protocols and operational excellence
- Lead the benefits operations related to M&A, including vendor transitions, benefits enrollment and partnering with HRIS, payroll and benefits administrators for eligibility files and integrations
- Lead the implementation of benefit enhancements and new vendors, ensuring timely alignment, planned resources, and deep cohesion across all impacted teams - Benefits, HRIS, payroll, legal, finance, tax, communications, sourcing, information security, and others as needed.
- Actively contribute to the Benefits team roadmap using your expertise, such as anticipating and alleviating implementation bottlenecks where the same teams are impacted by multiple initiatives, suggesting design alterations that could simplify operations, reduce risk or improve the employee experience, and driving enhancements or changes to our external benefits administration vendors
- Actively participate in the Benefits team stakeholder management efforts to ensure that there are no surprises amongst our key partners for upcoming and ongoing implementations and initiatives
- Identify and lead process improvement, automation, and AI-enablement opportunities within recurring benefits operations work.
- Partner in operationalizing the benefits data warehouse and developing dashboards and reporting that measure the effectiveness of benefit programs.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in global benefits operations, including US healthcare and 401(k) administration, as well as non-US benefits
- Proven experience leading teams through vendor transitions, plan design changes, and complex, multi-stakeholder implementations, including integrating new solutions into (or carving out of) US medical plans
- Demonstrated ability to build trust and collaboration across cross-functional partners (HRIS, payroll, tax, shared services, communications)
- Experience managing outsourced benefits administration vendors, including performance management and escalation
- Expertise with process improvement, automation, or AI-enabled efficiency work within benefits operations
- Strong people leadership skills, with a track record of developing team members and expanding their scope and confidence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate operational complexity into clear guidance for non-specialist audiences
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs. Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
The expected base pay range for this position is:
San Diego $188,500 - $255,000
Mountain View, CA $201,500 - $273,000
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Align your credentials to U.S. specialty occupation standards
Benefits Specialist roles must meet USCIS's specialty occupation definition, meaning a bachelor's degree in HR, business, or a related field is required for the position. A three-year Australian degree is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree.
Target employers with active HR compliance infrastructure
Mid-to-large employers with dedicated HR or total rewards teams are far more likely to understand E-3 visa sponsorship requirements than startups. Focus on companies that already administer complex benefits programs, as they're structured to handle LCA filings without confusion.
Address the LCA prevailing wage early in negotiations
Your offer letter salary must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage for Benefits Specialist roles in your work location. Confirm this before you accept an offer so your employer doesn't need to renegotiate after the LCA is submitted.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork
The LCA and DS-160 filing process has specific sequencing requirements. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the entire process from offer to consulate appointment, reducing the chance your employer's HR team makes a procedural error that delays your start date.
Prepare your degree equivalency documentation before interviewing
If your HR or business degree is from an Australian university, have a credential evaluation ready to share with employers. Some U.S. hiring managers aren't familiar with Australian qualifications, and a prepared evaluation removes a common objection during the offer stage.
Search for Benefits Specialist roles with E-3 sponsorship on Migrate Mate
Most general job boards don't filter by visa sponsorship type, so you'll waste time on roles where H-1B visa is the only option. Migrate Mate surfaces Benefits Specialist positions at employers who specifically support E-3 sponsorship for Australian nationals.
E-3 Visa Benefits Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find Benefits Specialist jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the recommended starting point. Most job boards don't distinguish between visa types, so roles listed as 'visa sponsorship available' often mean H-1B only. Migrate Mate filters specifically for positions at employers open to E-3 sponsorship, which saves you from applying to roles where your visa status will disqualify you.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Benefits Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for E-3 purposes?
Yes, as long as the position requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as human resources, business administration, or a related discipline. Roles that accept any degree regardless of field, or that list a degree as preferred rather than required, can fail the specialty occupation test. Job title alone isn't sufficient; the position description must tie the role to a specific body of knowledge.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Benefits Specialist roles?
The E-3 is available exclusively to Australian citizens and has no lottery, no annual cap, and no registration fee. H-1B requires entering a randomized lottery each April, with selection rates below 25% in recent fiscal years. For a Benefits Specialist role, an employer willing to sponsor will find the E-3 process significantly faster and less expensive than the H-1B process.
Can I change employers after getting an E-3 visa as a Benefits Specialist?
Yes, but your new employer must file a fresh LCA with the DOL and your visa must reflect the new employer before you begin working for them. If you're already in the U.S. on E-3 status, you can also request a change of employer through USCIS without leaving the country, though most applicants complete a new consulate appointment in Australia for a cleaner transition.