E-3 Visa Hospitality Jobs
Hospitality roles in hotel management, food and beverage, and event operations qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship when the position requires a relevant bachelor's degree. Australian professionals can secure two-year renewable status with no lottery, making career moves to U.S. properties and hospitality groups straightforward to plan and repeat.
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Position Overview
The Global Head of Corporate Dining & Hospitality defines and delivers a best-in-class hospitality experience across the firm’s global offices. Operating in a high-performance, client-focused environment, this leader ensures that employees and external stakeholders receive exceptional service, discretion, and consistency aligned with top-tier luxury hospitality standards.
In an alternative asset management environment where time, discretion, and performance are paramount, hospitality is more than a benefit—it is infrastructure and core to our firm culture. A best-in-class dining program reduces friction in the workday, enhances collaboration, and reinforces the firm’s commitment to excellence. This role ensures that every interaction, whether a quick team meal or a critical investor meeting, reflects the firm’s standards and values.
This role oversees a fully subsidized, market-leading employee dining program that serves as a strategic differentiator in talent attraction, retention, and daily productivity. The position also has global responsibility for client-facing hospitality, reception, conference services, and wellness across the firm’s primary offices in New York, Greenwich, El Segundo, London, and Mumbai. The ideal candidate is a visionary, operationally strong leader with experience managing complex organizations, executing high-impact events, and leading high-performing teams. The role requires upholding the firm’s exacting standards while driving efficiency, consistency, and innovation. With executive oversight of dining, hospitality services, reception, the client conference center, and fitness & wellness, this leader ensures that every experience reflects the excellence, precision, and professionalism of the Apollo brand.
Primary responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership
- Lead an established global hospitality program aligned with the firm’s brand: understated, high-touch, and execution-focused
- Guest Experience: Ensure the highest level of guest satisfaction by overseeing the implementation of service standards, personalized experiences, and swift resolution of any issues
- Position dining and hospitality as a core employee benefit and productivity driver
- Establish further global standards with flexibility for regional nuance
- Serve as a trusted partner to senior leadership on workplace experience and client engagement
- Partner with the firm’s Regional Heads of Workplace Operations and the Global Head of Design & Construction to bring new locations online
- Set clear KPIs and dashboards; monitor, audit, and course-correct to ensure alignment with strategic goals
Employee Dining Program (Flagship Responsibility)
- Design and oversee a best-in-class, fully employer-funded dining program across all offices
- Own operational performance across all regions, ensuring cohesion and consistency
- Ensure seamless, high-quality daily service with no-friction access for employees (speed, consistency, availability)
- Curate elevated, rotating menus that balance: premium quality and variety, health and wellness, and efficiency for fast-paced schedules
- Benchmark against top peer firms, private clubs, and luxury hospitality operators
- Continuously refine the program using feedback, utilization data, and evolving workforce expectations
Client & Executive Hospitality
- Deliver discreet, high-touch hospitality for investor meetings, board engagements, and senior leadership interactions
- Coordinate executive visits, high-profile client meetings, and international delegations with exceptional attention to detail
- Oversee client-facing venues and VIP service standards (white-glove where appropriate, invisible where expected)
- Ensure absolute confidentiality and precision execution for key meetings and events
- Partner strategically with Workplace Operations, Security, Investor Relations, Human Capital, Executive Assistants, and senior stakeholders to ensure seamless, integrated guest experiences
Global Operations & Vendor Management
- Select and manage best-in-class hospitality vendors, chefs, and operators in each market
- Negotiate and manage significant global budgets while maintaining uncompromising quality
- Implement consistent service standards, reporting, and performance management
Design & Workplace Integration
- Partner with Real Estate and Workplace teams to design institutional-quality dining spaces that reflect the firm’s brand
- Ensure layouts support both efficiency (high throughput) and discretion (private dining, executive areas)
- Influence kitchen capabilities to support premium, flexible service models
Standards, Risk & Compliance
- Maintain rigorous global standards for food safety, hygiene, and regulatory compliance
- Establish protocols for crisis management, supply chain disruptions, and business continuity
- Ensure operational resilience across all locations
Qualifications & Experience
Experience
- 15+ years in senior hospitality leadership within private equity / financial services environments, luxury hotels, private clubs, and/or high-end corporate dining programs
- Proven history of scaling operations and operational transformation
- Proven experience running multi-location, premium, employer-subsidized dining programs
- Experience operating in high-discretion, high-expectation environments
Capabilities
- Exceptional interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Passion for working with people, creating amazing experiences, and leading with a hospitality mindset
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, build structure, and adapt in evolving environments
- Ability to balance white-glove service with operational efficiency at scale
- Strong financial and commercial acumen; understands cost discipline without compromising experience
- Deep vendor network and ability to source elite culinary and service talent globally
- Executive presence; comfortable interfacing with C-Suite, partners, investors, and other senior leadership
- Takes initiative and leads proactively, with a constant focus on continuous improvement
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
- Willingness to work outside normal business hours
Key Competencies
- Strong knowledge of facilities management and day-to-day workplace operations
- Discretion and judgment in sensitive, high-profile environments
- Detail orientation with uncompromising standards
- Speed, responsiveness, and problem-solving under pressure
- Global mindset with local cultural fluency
- Ability to translate hospitality into a strategic business advantage
Success Metrics
- Employee utilization and satisfaction with the dining program
- Seamlessness and quality of daily service (speed, availability, consistency)
- Senior leadership and client feedback on hospitality experience
- Vendor performance and operational reliability
- Effective cost management relative to program scale and quality
Pay Range
250,000 - 300,000
Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.
The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.
The base salary range for this position is listed above. This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on several factors including job function, level, and geographic location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed here.
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Match your degree to the role
E-3 visa requires a direct connection between your Australian degree and the specific hospitality role. A Bachelor of Hotel Management supports a front-of-house director position, but a general business degree alone may not satisfy a specialty occupation determination for the same title.
Target hotel groups with multi-property operations
Large hospitality groups with properties across multiple U.S. states have established HR and legal teams familiar with E-3 LCA filings. Approaching regional directors or corporate talent teams at these organizations gets your application in front of people who already understand the process.
Resolve your credential equivalency before applying
Australian three-year bachelor's degrees are generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree, but your employer's attorney will need to confirm this for your LCA. Get a credential evaluation from a NACES-approved evaluator before your first offer conversation.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service after your offer
Once an employer says yes, the LCA and DS-160 paperwork moves fast. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA submission to DOL, visa documentation, and consulate preparation so delays don't push back your start date.
Search Migrate Mate for verified sponsoring employers
Finding employers who have sponsored E-3 workers before cuts your job search time significantly. Migrate Mate surfaces hospitality employers with active E-3 sponsorship history so you're applying where sponsorship is already a known process, not a new conversation.
Clarify your role scope during offer negotiation
Hospitality titles like 'operations manager' or 'events coordinator' can fail specialty occupation review if the duties are too broad or overlap with general supervision. Ask your prospective employer to define degree-specific responsibilities in writing before the LCA is filed.
E-3 Visa Hospitality: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find hospitality jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship in the U.S.?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. You can filter hospitality positions by employers who have sponsored E-3 workers before, which removes the guesswork of approaching companies unfamiliar with the visa. Starting your search there gives you a shortlist of employers already open to the process.
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.
Do hospitality roles qualify as specialty occupations for the E-3?
Some do and some don't. Roles like hotel general manager, food and beverage director, or revenue manager typically qualify because they require a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as hospitality management or business. Front-of-house or operational support roles that don't require a specific degree in that field are harder to qualify. The degree-to-role connection is the key test.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Australian hospitality professionals?
The E-3 is substantially more practical for this field. There's no lottery, no annual cap that runs out, and no registration fee gamble. H-1B visa selection is random and capped at 85,000 per fiscal year, meaning a qualified candidate with a solid offer can still go unselected. The E-3 allocates 10,500 visas annually to Australians and has never come close to filling that cap.
Can my E-3 employer change my hospitality role after I arrive in the U.S.?
Material changes to your role, duties, or work location require a new LCA filed with DOL before the change takes effect. Promotions into a different job title or a transfer to a different property under the same employer group typically trigger this requirement. A minor title adjustment without a change in core duties is less likely to require a new filing, but your employer should confirm with their filing team.