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Driver jobs in the U.S. require E-3 visa sponsorship from a qualifying employer, and the specialty occupation requirement means your role must demonstrably require a bachelor's degree or equivalent. The E-3 has no lottery, no annual cap, and renews in two-year increments, giving you long-term stability once you land the right offer.
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Cooley is seeking a Business Development Driver Manager to join the Marketing and Client Development team.
Position Summary:
This role is part of the Business Development Drivers Team, which provides strategic and operational business development support that helps drive coordinated BD and Marketing activity and turn priorities into action. Responsible for managing efforts to strengthen campaign execution, account planning, opportunity development, meeting preparation, follow-up, and pipeline discipline, so BD efforts are more focused and consistently executed.
Position responsibilities:
- Operational Excellence & Discipline: Strengthen the firm’s business development "ground game" by implementing structured processes for meeting preparation, opportunity development, and consistent pipeline management.
- Engagement Strategy & Briefing: Oversee the development of high-impact briefing materials and meeting prep strategies, ensuring partners and BD leaders are fully equipped to maximize every client interaction.
- Integrated Campaign Activation: Partner with Marketing to manage lead flow and action items, ensuring that campaign engagement and market outreach are seamlessly converted into qualified opportunities.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Manage the team that serves as the central point of alignment between Marketing, BD leaders, and Partners, ensuring clear handoffs and internal coordination across all support functions.
- Execution & Action Planning: Set best practices for translating internal discussions and client meetings into clear, actionable plans, ensuring opportunities move through the pipeline via persistent follow-up and internal accountability.
- Pipeline Integrity & Reporting: Maintain a rigorous view of firm-wide priorities and progress by overseeing the tracking of activity, opportunity status, and account actions for senior leadership reviews.
- Process Optimization: Continuously refine the firm's approach to BD support, creating scalable systems that increase efficiency and ensure the growth organization operates with maximum impact and minimal friction.
- People Leader:
- Serve as direct supervisor and mentor to direct reports
- Provide day-to-day supervision of direct reports, ensure compliance with assigned work hours and monitor for compliance with all firm and department policies. Manage staffing coverage, review and process time logs/time off requests
- Support business professional development and continued educational opportunities
- In collaboration with immediate supervisor and central HR, participate in hiring, performance appraisals, counseling, termination and other employee lifecycle events
- All other duties as assigned or required
Skills and experience:
Required:
- After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
- Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
- Ability to travel, as required
- 5+ years applicable experience in the field (e.g., marketing or business development)
- Demonstrated business development skills (e.g. pipeline management, campaign execution)
- Strong working knowledge of enterprise CRM ecosystems (e.g., Salesforce)
Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Supervisory experience
- Prior legal industry or professional services experience
Competencies:
- Entrepreneurial by nature
- Excellent attention to detail
- Approaches tasks through a lens of quality and consistency
- Approaches tasks through a digital first lens
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to facilitate and solve problems
- Ability to organize, prioritize and coordinate multiple activities often under tight timelines
- Takes a consultative approach to set goals, drive projects, and achieve outcomes
- Strong judgment
- Team-player with collaborative spirit
- Unwavering ability to handle and maintain confidentiality regarding firm information, projects, client data
- High level of professionalism at all times
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and develop talent
- Proactive, analytical mindset
- Effective presentation skills
COMPENSATION
- The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $170,000 - $240,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.
Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices. EOE.
We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.
INTRODUCTION
Cooley is seeking a Business Development Driver Manager to join the Marketing and Client Development team.
Position Summary:
This role is part of the Business Development Drivers Team, which provides strategic and operational business development support that helps drive coordinated BD and Marketing activity and turn priorities into action. Responsible for managing efforts to strengthen campaign execution, account planning, opportunity development, meeting preparation, follow-up, and pipeline discipline, so BD efforts are more focused and consistently executed.
Position responsibilities:
- Operational Excellence & Discipline: Strengthen the firm’s business development "ground game" by implementing structured processes for meeting preparation, opportunity development, and consistent pipeline management.
- Engagement Strategy & Briefing: Oversee the development of high-impact briefing materials and meeting prep strategies, ensuring partners and BD leaders are fully equipped to maximize every client interaction.
- Integrated Campaign Activation: Partner with Marketing to manage lead flow and action items, ensuring that campaign engagement and market outreach are seamlessly converted into qualified opportunities.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Manage the team that serves as the central point of alignment between Marketing, BD leaders, and Partners, ensuring clear handoffs and internal coordination across all support functions.
- Execution & Action Planning: Set best practices for translating internal discussions and client meetings into clear, actionable plans, ensuring opportunities move through the pipeline via persistent follow-up and internal accountability.
- Pipeline Integrity & Reporting: Maintain a rigorous view of firm-wide priorities and progress by overseeing the tracking of activity, opportunity status, and account actions for senior leadership reviews.
- Process Optimization: Continuously refine the firm's approach to BD support, creating scalable systems that increase efficiency and ensure the growth organization operates with maximum impact and minimal friction.
- People Leader:
- Serve as direct supervisor and mentor to direct reports
- Provide day-to-day supervision of direct reports, ensure compliance with assigned work hours and monitor for compliance with all firm and department policies. Manage staffing coverage, review and process time logs/time off requests
- Support business professional development and continued educational opportunities
- In collaboration with immediate supervisor and central HR, participate in hiring, performance appraisals, counseling, termination and other employee lifecycle events
- All other duties as assigned or required
Skills and experience:
Required:
- After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
- Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
- Ability to travel, as required
- 5+ years applicable experience in the field (e.g., marketing or business development)
- Demonstrated business development skills (e.g. pipeline management, campaign execution)
- Strong working knowledge of enterprise CRM ecosystems (e.g., Salesforce)
Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Supervisory experience
- Prior legal industry or professional services experience
Competencies:
- Entrepreneurial by nature
- Excellent attention to detail
- Approaches tasks through a lens of quality and consistency
- Approaches tasks through a digital first lens
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to facilitate and solve problems
- Ability to organize, prioritize and coordinate multiple activities often under tight timelines
- Takes a consultative approach to set goals, drive projects, and achieve outcomes
- Strong judgment
- Team-player with collaborative spirit
- Unwavering ability to handle and maintain confidentiality regarding firm information, projects, client data
- High level of professionalism at all times
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and develop talent
- Proactive, analytical mindset
- Effective presentation skills
COMPENSATION
- The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $170,000 - $240,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.
Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices. EOE.
We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Driver
Gather your credential equivalency documents early
Australian three-year degrees qualify as equivalent to a U.S. four-year bachelor's under E-3 visa rules, but you'll need official transcripts and a credential evaluation letter ready before your employer can file the Labor Condition Application with DOL.
Target employers already filing LCAs for drivers
Search DOL's Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) disclosure data for certified LCAs listing driver or transportation-related job titles. Employers with prior LCA history understand the E-3 process and are far less likely to withdraw an offer over sponsorship concerns.
Frame the specialty occupation argument precisely
Driver roles that qualify for E-3 typically involve logistics coordination, route optimization, or compliance functions requiring a degree in supply chain, transportation management, or a related field. Document how your specific duties go beyond general driving to satisfy the specialty occupation standard.
Confirm your employer's E-Verify enrollment before signing
Not all transportation employers are enrolled in E-Verify. If your employer isn't enrolled, they'll need to register before you can complete Form I-9 on day one. Clarify this during the offer stage so there's no delay when you start work.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to manage your LCA
The LCA must be certified by DOL before your visa appointment can proceed. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork so nothing is filed out of sequence and your consulate appointment isn't delayed by a procedural error.
Prepare for consulate questions on your return intent
E-3 is a nonimmigrant visa, so consular officers will probe your ties to Australia. Prepare specific, factual answers about family, financial assets, or property in Australia. Vague answers on nonimmigrant intent are one of the most common reasons E-3 applications are delayed or refused.
E-3 Visa Driver: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Driver jobs in the U.S. that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals seeking E-3 sponsorship and lists Driver roles where employers are open to the visa process. Because E-3 requires the employer to file a Labor Condition Application before your consulate appointment, targeting employers already familiar with the visa saves significant time and avoids offers that fall through at the sponsorship stage.
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 Driver role qualify as a specialty occupation under E-3?
It depends on the specific duties. Standard commercial driving roles generally don't satisfy the specialty occupation requirement, which demands that a bachelor's degree in a specific field be the normal entry requirement for the position. Driver roles tied to logistics management, compliance, or route optimization, where a degree in supply chain or transportation management is genuinely required, have a stronger case. Your employer's job description and your own credentials both factor into the assessment.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Australian drivers?
The E-3 has no annual cap and no lottery, so an approved LCA and a successful consulate interview mean you can start work without waiting for a random selection outcome. The H-1B visa is subject to an 85,000-slot annual cap and a lottery that most applicants don't win in a given year. For Australians, the E-3 is the practical path because the H-1B lottery uncertainty makes planning a relocation extremely difficult.
What happens to my E-3 status if my employer terminates my Driver role?
Your E-3 status is tied to your employer and the certified LCA for your specific position. If your employment ends, you're out of status immediately, though USCIS has recognized a reasonable grace period in practice. You'll need a new employer to file a new LCA and you'll return to the consulate for a new visa stamp. Starting the job search before your current role ends gives you the best chance of maintaining continuous lawful status.