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Business Development Associate roles can qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification when the position requires a bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field. Employers file on your behalf, and your credentials, industry focus, and employer size all shape how quickly the process moves.
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Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 790,000 businesses and more than 2.75 million active savers, with over $57 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States. Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities. Vestwell's platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third-party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers.
Who Are We Looking For?
As a Sourcer on our Talent Acquisition team, you will be a key partner to our recruiters and hiring managers, building and nurturing the candidate pipelines that fuel our growth. You will proactively identify, engage, and evaluate talent across a range of functions, while helping ensure every candidate has a thoughtful, professional experience with Vestwell. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys the craft of sourcing and wants to make a visible impact on how we hire.
What Will You Be Doing?
Day-to-day You Will Be Expected To
- Build pipelines proactively: Source passive and active candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean searches, professional communities, and other channels to create diverse, qualified talent pools for open and upcoming roles.
- Engage candidates: Craft personalized outreach across email, LinkedIn, and other channels, follow up consistently, and build genuine interest in Vestwell and the opportunity.
- Screen and evaluate: Review inbound applications, conduct initial screening conversations, and assess candidates against defined role requirements to support objective, data-driven hiring decisions.
- Partner with recruiters and hiring managers: Participate in intake conversations, align on role requirements and ideal candidate profiles, share market insights, and refine sourcing strategy based on feedback.
- Manage the process in Greenhouse: Keep candidate records, notes, stages, and dispositions accurate and up to date so the team has clear visibility into pipeline health.
- Track and report: Monitor sourcing metrics such as outreach response rates, screen-to-submit ratios, and pipeline diversity, and use the data to continuously improve results.
- Deliver a great candidate experience: Communicate clearly and promptly, represent Vestwell's brand and culture, and ensure candidates feel respected whatever the outcome.
- Contribute to the team: Share best practices, help improve sourcing playbooks and templates, and support employer branding and recruiting events as needed.
- Own the end-to-end candidate interview process, from conducting initial interview screens to coordinating virtual and on-site interview panels across multiple time zones and stakeholder groups.
REQUIREMENTS
The Necessities:
- 1–3 years of experience in sourcing or recruiting, in an agency, in-house, or high-growth environment
- Demonstrated success building pipelines for professional roles; experience with technical, fintech, or other specialized hiring is a plus
- Hands-on experience with LinkedIn Recruiter and advanced search techniques
- Experience with an applicant tracking system, ideally Greenhouse
- Experience reviewing applications and conducting candidate screens against defined role criteria
- Ability to partner effectively with recruiters, hiring managers, and other stakeholders
The Extras
- Experience working in startup and or FinTech environment(s)
This role will be based in our Austin office, and will be part of Vestwell's hybrid in-office operation. This role will be hired on a W-2, contract-to-hire basis of up to 3 months, with the potential to extend and/or convert to full-time employment. The expected hourly range for this position is $35 - $40/hour base. This position is eligible to participate in the Company Bonus Pool and is eligible to receive new hire equity in the Company. Please note that salary bands are based on NY and other similar metro areas and may differ based on where the role is ultimately hired.
Full-Time Employee Benefits
We’re an innovative, high-growth company with an exciting future ahead. At Vestwell, we prioritize employee wellbeing through comprehensive health benefits, generous time off, and a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee. Our hybrid work model offers flexibility while providing access to our collaborative offices in Midtown Manhattan, Austin, King of Prussia, and Scottsdale. And, of course, as a company focused on helping people save for the future, we offer a competitive 401(k) plan.
INTERVIEW PROCESS
Our interview process starts the same for every candidate with 1-2 introductory conversations to learn more about your background, interests, and what you're looking for, while also giving you the opportunity to learn more about Vestwell and the team. From there, the process varies by role but typically includes a skills or experience-based assessment, such as a coding interview, portfolio review, or deeper discussion of your relevant experience. Successful candidates then move on to a virtual or in-person interview panel. Before extending an offer, we complete a reference check with a current or former manager and a peer. Throughout the process, we prioritize transparency, clear communication, and minimizing surprises. For your awareness you will only receive correspondence from recruiting@vestwell.com any other domain not ending in vestwell.com is not our Recruitment team.
Vestwell’s Privacy Policy.
Attention California residents: In the course of conducting our business and complying with federal, state, and local government regulations governing such matters as employment, tax, insurance, etc., we must collect Personal Information from you. Should you accept employment with Vestwell you may view our California Privacy Rights Act here: Vestwell’s California Privacy Rights Policy.
INTRODUCTION
Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 790,000 businesses and more than 2.75 million active savers, with over $57 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States. Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities. Vestwell's platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third-party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers.
Who Are We Looking For?
As a Sourcer on our Talent Acquisition team, you will be a key partner to our recruiters and hiring managers, building and nurturing the candidate pipelines that fuel our growth. You will proactively identify, engage, and evaluate talent across a range of functions, while helping ensure every candidate has a thoughtful, professional experience with Vestwell. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys the craft of sourcing and wants to make a visible impact on how we hire.
What Will You Be Doing?
Day-to-day You Will Be Expected To
- Build pipelines proactively: Source passive and active candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean searches, professional communities, and other channels to create diverse, qualified talent pools for open and upcoming roles.
- Engage candidates: Craft personalized outreach across email, LinkedIn, and other channels, follow up consistently, and build genuine interest in Vestwell and the opportunity.
- Screen and evaluate: Review inbound applications, conduct initial screening conversations, and assess candidates against defined role requirements to support objective, data-driven hiring decisions.
- Partner with recruiters and hiring managers: Participate in intake conversations, align on role requirements and ideal candidate profiles, share market insights, and refine sourcing strategy based on feedback.
- Manage the process in Greenhouse: Keep candidate records, notes, stages, and dispositions accurate and up to date so the team has clear visibility into pipeline health.
- Track and report: Monitor sourcing metrics such as outreach response rates, screen-to-submit ratios, and pipeline diversity, and use the data to continuously improve results.
- Deliver a great candidate experience: Communicate clearly and promptly, represent Vestwell's brand and culture, and ensure candidates feel respected whatever the outcome.
- Contribute to the team: Share best practices, help improve sourcing playbooks and templates, and support employer branding and recruiting events as needed.
- Own the end-to-end candidate interview process, from conducting initial interview screens to coordinating virtual and on-site interview panels across multiple time zones and stakeholder groups.
REQUIREMENTS
The Necessities:
- 1–3 years of experience in sourcing or recruiting, in an agency, in-house, or high-growth environment
- Demonstrated success building pipelines for professional roles; experience with technical, fintech, or other specialized hiring is a plus
- Hands-on experience with LinkedIn Recruiter and advanced search techniques
- Experience with an applicant tracking system, ideally Greenhouse
- Experience reviewing applications and conducting candidate screens against defined role criteria
- Ability to partner effectively with recruiters, hiring managers, and other stakeholders
The Extras
- Experience working in startup and or FinTech environment(s)
This role will be based in our Austin office, and will be part of Vestwell's hybrid in-office operation. This role will be hired on a W-2, contract-to-hire basis of up to 3 months, with the potential to extend and/or convert to full-time employment. The expected hourly range for this position is $35 - $40/hour base. This position is eligible to participate in the Company Bonus Pool and is eligible to receive new hire equity in the Company. Please note that salary bands are based on NY and other similar metro areas and may differ based on where the role is ultimately hired.
Full-Time Employee Benefits
We’re an innovative, high-growth company with an exciting future ahead. At Vestwell, we prioritize employee wellbeing through comprehensive health benefits, generous time off, and a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee. Our hybrid work model offers flexibility while providing access to our collaborative offices in Midtown Manhattan, Austin, King of Prussia, and Scottsdale. And, of course, as a company focused on helping people save for the future, we offer a competitive 401(k) plan.
INTERVIEW PROCESS
Our interview process starts the same for every candidate with 1-2 introductory conversations to learn more about your background, interests, and what you're looking for, while also giving you the opportunity to learn more about Vestwell and the team. From there, the process varies by role but typically includes a skills or experience-based assessment, such as a coding interview, portfolio review, or deeper discussion of your relevant experience. Successful candidates then move on to a virtual or in-person interview panel. Before extending an offer, we complete a reference check with a current or former manager and a peer. Throughout the process, we prioritize transparency, clear communication, and minimizing surprises. For your awareness you will only receive correspondence from recruiting@vestwell.com any other domain not ending in vestwell.com is not our Recruitment team.
Vestwell’s Privacy Policy.
Attention California residents: In the course of conducting our business and complying with federal, state, and local government regulations governing such matters as employment, tax, insurance, etc., we must collect Personal Information from you. Should you accept employment with Vestwell you may view our California Privacy Rights Act here: Vestwell’s California Privacy Rights Policy.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Business Development Associate
Document your degree field precisely
PERM requires your degree to match the job's minimum requirements. A business administration or marketing degree supports most Business Development Associate filings, but a degree in an unrelated field can trigger a denial even with years of relevant experience.
Target companies with PERM filing history
Search DOL's OFLC disclosure data to find employers who have filed PERM applications for business development roles. Companies with repeated filings already have in-house processes and legal counsel, which shortens your path from offer to petition.
Clarify sponsorship intent before accepting an offer
Ask directly whether the employer will sponsor EB-2 or EB-3 and whether they cover attorney fees. Some companies sponsor only H-1B visa and assume green card sponsorship is a separate conversation, so align on this in writing before you sign.
Use Migrate Mate to find green card sponsors
Search Migrate Mate to identify Business Development Associate roles at employers with active green card sponsorship history. Filtering by sponsorship track lets you focus your applications on companies already familiar with PERM, I-140, and adjustment of status.
Understand how EB-3 backlog affects your timeline
Most Business Development Associate roles qualify under EB-3. Nationals from India and China face multi-year priority date backlogs, while rest-of-world applicants often wait one to two years. Check the USCIS Visa Bulletin before accepting an offer to set realistic expectations.
Verify the prevailing wage before PERM is filed
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your location and job level. Look up the wage range using OFLC Wage Search before negotiations so your offered salary clears the threshold and doesn't stall the PERM filing later.
Green Card Business Development Associate: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Business Development Associate roles typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3?
Most Business Development Associate positions qualify under EB-3, which covers roles requiring a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as business, marketing, or economics. EB-2 applies when the employer can justify that the role requires an advanced degree or when a candidate pursues a National Interest Waiver. The classification affects your priority date and ultimately how long you wait for a green card.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B grants temporary work authorization for up to six years and is subject to an annual lottery cap. PERM-based green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency and has no annual cap at the EB-3 petition level, though per-country visa number limits can create backlogs. The PERM process also requires the employer to test the labor market by advertising the role, which adds three to six months before USCIS even sees your I-140 petition.
What does the PERM process actually require for a business development role?
Your employer must file a PERM labor certification with DOL proving no qualified U.S. worker is available for the position. This involves placing specific job advertisements, documenting recruitment results, and submitting an ETA Form 9089. The job requirements listed in the PERM filing must match what you were hired to do, so any discrepancy between your actual duties and the posted description can jeopardize the case.
How do I find employers who will sponsor a green card for business development roles?
Use Migrate Mate to search Business Development Associate positions filtered by employers with green card sponsorship history. Looking for companies that have previously filed PERM applications in sales, strategy, or business operations roles is the most reliable signal that a potential employer understands the process and is willing to invest in it.
Can I change jobs after my employer files my I-140?
Yes, once your I-140 has been approved and you have waited at least 180 days, portability rules under AC21 allow you to change employers or roles as long as the new position is in the same or a similar occupational classification. For Business Development Associates moving into adjacent roles like account management or partnerships, USCIS generally accepts this as a qualifying same-or-similar job change.