E-3 Visa Learning Development Manager Jobs
Learning Development Manager roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in instructional design, organizational development, education, or a closely related field. The E-3 has no lottery and no annual cap, so Australian professionals can pursue these roles year-round without competing for limited slots.
Find E-3 Visa Learning Development Manager JobsOverview
Showing 5 of 28+ Learning Development Manager jobs
See all Learning Development Manager Jobs
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new Learning Development Manager roles.
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.
See all E-3 Visa Learning Development Manager Jobs
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new E-3 Visa Learning Development Manager Jobs.
Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Learning Development Manager
Frame your credentials for U.S. specialty occupation
Your Australian three-year bachelor's degree qualifies as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree for E-3 visa purposes. Make sure your resume explicitly states your degree field and how it connects to learning and development, not just your job titles.
Target employers with dedicated L&D functions
Companies with standalone Learning Development Manager roles are more likely to have HR teams familiar with E-3 sponsorship. Focus on mid-to-large employers in healthcare, financial services, and technology, where structured L&D programs are standard practice.
Search E-3 sponsorship roles on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Learning Development Manager openings by E-3 sponsorship history. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the entire process from offer to consulate appointment, so you and your employer avoid the paperwork burden.
Clarify the LCA requirement with your employer early
Before your offer is finalized, confirm your employer understands they must file a Labor Condition Application with the DOL certifying prevailing wage compliance. LCA certification typically takes seven business days and must be completed before your visa interview.
Align your job description to instructional design criteria
Consular officers assess whether the role genuinely requires a relevant degree. Ask your employer to draft the offer letter so it explicitly names the specialized knowledge required, not just generic management duties that could be performed without a specific qualification.
Prepare for specialty occupation questions at your interview
Consular officers at Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth regularly ask how your degree field directly applies to the role. Practice explaining the connection between organizational psychology, adult learning theory, or instructional design and your day-to-day responsibilities as a Learning Development Manager.
E-3 Visa Learning Development Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Learning Development Manager jobs with E-3 sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to search Learning Development Manager roles filtered by E-3 visa sponsorship. Most general job boards don't let you filter by visa type, so you end up manually vetting each employer. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where sponsors are already open to Australian candidates on the E-3, saving significant time in your search.
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 Development Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as instructional design, organizational development, human resources, or education. The role fails the specialty occupation test if the employer's job description accepts any bachelor's degree regardless of field. Make sure the offer letter specifies the required discipline to support your consular application.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Learning Development Manager roles?
The E-3 is significantly more accessible for Australians. The H-1B visa requires entering an annual lottery with roughly a 25% selection rate, while the E-3 has no lottery and no annual cap. Both require specialty occupation qualification and a certified LCA, but E-3 applicants can apply directly at the consulate rather than waiting for USCIS adjudication, which shortens the timeline considerably.
Can I change employers after starting work on an E-3?
Yes, but the E-3 is employer-specific, so a job change requires a new LCA and a new visa. You'll need to either apply for a new E-3 at the consulate or, if you're already in the U.S., your new employer can file a change of status with USCIS. There's no portability provision, so make sure your new employer initiates the process before your current visa validity period ends.