E-3 Visa Learning And Development Manager Jobs
Learning and Development Manager roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a relevant bachelor's degree. Australian professionals bring globally recognized instructional design and talent development expertise that U.S. employers actively seek. The E-3 has no lottery and renews in two-year increments, making long-term career planning straightforward.
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Get Access To All JobsAt Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors - Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together - help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
In this role, you will:
- Architect enterprise learning and development strategies, frameworks, and experiences that address complex organizational capability needs and deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Translate business priorities, learner insights, and performance data into scalable learning architectures, curricula, and development solutions across multiple domains.
- Lead the design of end-to-end learning ecosystems, including needs analysis, solution architecture, content strategy, delivery models, measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Establish standards, principles, and reusable patterns that enable consistent, accessible, and engaging learning experiences across the organization.
- Partner with senior stakeholders, subject-matter experts, learning teams, Developer Experience and technology leaders to align learning investments with organizational priorities and drive adoption.
- Design role-based AI learning pathways and playbooks for Technology job families, extending the developer enablement model in partnership with Developer Experience.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in learning and development, instructional design, education, organizational development, business, technology, or a related field.
- Significant professional experience designing and architecting enterprise learning, capability-building, instructional design, or organizational development solutions.
- Experience owning strategy and architecture across multiple learning programs, domains, or organizational capabilities, rather than a single course or learning asset.
- Demonstrated expertise in learning design principles, adult learning theory, curriculum architecture, learning technologies, evaluation methods, and data-informed improvement.
- Hands-on use of AI tools in daily work and experience designing AI learning for technical audience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong hands-on AI fluency and technical credibility: uses AI tools every day to design, prototype and test learning, and can teach technical audiences in the context of their own tools and workflows.
- Experience building role-based learning pathways and playbooks across multiple technical job families (for example product, program management, data, design and engineering leadership), adapting a common, tool-agnostic framework to each role’s real work.
- Experience designing ways to measure whether people’s AI skills and behaviors actually improved, and connecting that to usage data and business results without overstating cause and effect.
- A track record of leading technology-driven behavior change through influence, including turning skeptical stakeholders into partners and adapting to organizational decisions without formal authority.
- Experience designing and facilitating hands-on learning for leaders at every level, and scaling it across global teams through champions, lab leaders or train-the-trainer models.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $207,500.00 to $290,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $332,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perks
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors - Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together - help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
In this role, you will:
- Architect enterprise learning and development strategies, frameworks, and experiences that address complex organizational capability needs and deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Translate business priorities, learner insights, and performance data into scalable learning architectures, curricula, and development solutions across multiple domains.
- Lead the design of end-to-end learning ecosystems, including needs analysis, solution architecture, content strategy, delivery models, measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Establish standards, principles, and reusable patterns that enable consistent, accessible, and engaging learning experiences across the organization.
- Partner with senior stakeholders, subject-matter experts, learning teams, Developer Experience and technology leaders to align learning investments with organizational priorities and drive adoption.
- Design role-based AI learning pathways and playbooks for Technology job families, extending the developer enablement model in partnership with Developer Experience.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in learning and development, instructional design, education, organizational development, business, technology, or a related field.
- Significant professional experience designing and architecting enterprise learning, capability-building, instructional design, or organizational development solutions.
- Experience owning strategy and architecture across multiple learning programs, domains, or organizational capabilities, rather than a single course or learning asset.
- Demonstrated expertise in learning design principles, adult learning theory, curriculum architecture, learning technologies, evaluation methods, and data-informed improvement.
- Hands-on use of AI tools in daily work and experience designing AI learning for technical audience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong hands-on AI fluency and technical credibility: uses AI tools every day to design, prototype and test learning, and can teach technical audiences in the context of their own tools and workflows.
- Experience building role-based learning pathways and playbooks across multiple technical job families (for example product, program management, data, design and engineering leadership), adapting a common, tool-agnostic framework to each role’s real work.
- Experience designing ways to measure whether people’s AI skills and behaviors actually improved, and connecting that to usage data and business results without overstating cause and effect.
- A track record of leading technology-driven behavior change through influence, including turning skeptical stakeholders into partners and adapting to organizational decisions without formal authority.
- Experience designing and facilitating hands-on learning for leaders at every level, and scaling it across global teams through champions, lab leaders or train-the-trainer models.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $207,500.00 to $290,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $332,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perks
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Learning And Development Manager
Frame your credentials for U.S. specialty occupation
Your Australian three-year bachelor's degree in HR, education, or organizational psychology meets the E-3 visa specialty occupation standard. Document how your degree field directly connects to the L&D Manager role, not just general management, when preparing your visa evidence.
Target employers with dedicated L&D functions
Mid-to-large companies with standalone learning teams are far more likely to sponsor E-3 visas than those where training sits inside a generalist HR role. Search for organizations with Chief Learning Officer titles or dedicated learning academies in their public job postings.
Address the LCA requirement early with employers
Before accepting an offer, confirm the employer understands their DOL Labor Condition Application obligation. The LCA certifies your offered wage meets the prevailing wage for your location and role, and it must be filed before your consulate appointment.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for end-to-end support
L&D Manager roles sometimes draw scrutiny over specialty occupation status. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA filing, visa paperwork, and consulate preparation so your application reflects the degree-to-role connection clearly and consistently.
Leverage instructional design certifications strategically
CPLP or ATD certifications strengthen your E-3 application by demonstrating specialized professional standing beyond your degree. Include them in your resume and visa support documents as evidence of specialized expertise in the learning and development field.
Clarify E-3 renewal timing before your start date
E-3 visas are issued in two-year increments with no cap on renewals. Confirm with your employer that they'll support renewal filings before your current visa expires, since your continued authorization depends on their ongoing LCA and sponsorship commitment.
E-3 Visa Learning And Development Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Learning and Development Manager jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Use Migrate Mate to search Learning and Development Manager roles filtered by E-3 visa sponsorship. Most general job boards don't flag E-3 willingness explicitly, so targeting employers with a history of sponsoring Australian professionals saves significant time. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where sponsorship is a realistic outcome, not just a possibility.
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 Learning and Development Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as human resources, education, instructional design, or organizational development. Roles where any degree field is acceptable, or where a degree is preferred but not required, can create complications. Your job offer letter should specify the degree requirement clearly.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Learning and Development Manager roles?
The E-3 has no annual lottery and no numerical cap, meaning you can apply any time of year once you have a job offer. H-1B visa requires entering a lottery with roughly a 25 to 30 percent selection rate. For Australian L&D professionals, the E-3 is a direct path that bypasses the uncertainty and multi-year wait that H-1B applicants face.
Can I switch to a different L&D employer after arriving on an E-3?
Yes, but your E-3 status is tied to your sponsoring employer. If you change jobs, your new employer must file a fresh Labor Condition Application with the DOL and you'll need a new E-3 visa or an E-3D visa change of employer notation before you start work. Leaving your sponsoring employer without a new visa in place ends your authorized status.