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Learning and Development Specialist roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship when tied to a bachelor's degree in instructional design, organizational psychology, education, or a closely related field. The E-3 has no lottery and no annual cap, making it a more predictable path to U.S. employment than H-1B visa for Australian L&D professionals.
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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 Specialist
Align your credentials to specialty occupation
Your Australian degree must map directly to the L&D role, not just to a general field. A bachelor's in instructional design or organizational development carries more weight than a general business degree when a consular officer reviews your application.
Target employers with dedicated L&D functions
Companies large enough to have a standalone learning team, not just an HR generalist handling training, are far more likely to understand E-3 visa sponsorship. Look for organizations posting roles that require an instructional design or adult learning theory background.
Request LCA filing before signing your offer
The Labor Condition Application must be certified by DOL before your visa can be issued. Confirm your employer will file it promptly after you accept, as delays here push back your consulate appointment and start date.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for end-to-end support
Once you have a job offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork. This reduces errors that cause consulate delays and ensures your documents meet current DOL and USCIS standards.
Clarify your role scope during offer negotiation
If your job duties blend L&D with general HR or project management, ask your employer to emphasize the specialized learning design and facilitation responsibilities in your offer letter. Vague job descriptions can complicate the specialty occupation determination.
Prepare your degree equivalency documentation early
Australian three-year bachelor's degrees are generally accepted as equivalent to U.S. four-year degrees, but have a credential evaluation ready. A NACES-member evaluator's letter removes any ambiguity at the consulate before it becomes a problem.
E-3 Visa Learning And Development Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Learning and Development Specialist jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to search for Learning and Development Specialist roles with confirmed E-3 sponsorship. Standard job boards list openings but rarely filter by visa type or sponsorship willingness. Migrate Mate surfaces employers with active E-3 filing history in L&D and adjacent functions, so you're not cold-applying to roles where sponsorship is an afterthought.
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 Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the role requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as instructional design, organizational development, or educational psychology. Roles that accept any degree, or treat training as a secondary HR duty, are harder to qualify. The offer letter and job description need to reflect specialized knowledge requirements, not general coordination tasks.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for L&D professionals?
The E-3 has no lottery and no annual cap, which means Australian L&D professionals can apply any time they have a job offer rather than waiting for an April lottery result. H-1B registrations are capped at 85,000 per year and selected randomly. The E-3 is also renewable indefinitely in two-year increments, making it a stable long-term path for L&D careers in the U.S.
Can I change employers while on an E-3 as an L&D Specialist?
You can change employers, but your new employer must file a fresh LCA with DOL and you'll need a new E-3 visa before starting work. There's no portability rule for E-3 the way AC21 applies to H-1B holders. Build transition time into any employer change, particularly if your current visa stamp expires before the new one is issued.