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Job Description:
As the Marketing Operations Senior Associate, Integration, you provide the day-to-day coordination and operational backbone across Grant Thornton's global GTM and marketing integration workstreams. This is a dedicated, time-bound role responsible for connecting plans across specialized teams, maintaining accurate work and financial information, supporting ClickUp adoption, coordinating change and logistics, and ensuring capability leads can remain focused on their areas of expertise. You directly support the transition of each global platform firm from integration into business-as-usual (BAU).
Reporting into the Marketing Operations Lead, Integration and coordinating through the Integration Management Office (IMO), the firm's central governance body for coordinating and overseeing integration execution, you work across capability leads and local firm teams. You combine strong execution discipline with the ability to understand the broader integration picture, surface cross-workstream impacts, and turn incomplete or conflicting information into clear issues, options, and next steps. You are a dynamic operator who is comfortable creating structure where it does not yet exist and adapting as priorities evolve.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Maintain the integrated plan across GTM and marketing workstreams, keeping milestones, owners, dependencies, decisions, risks, and BAU handoffs current across concurrent firm integrations.
- Configure and maintain ClickUp workspaces, templates, workflows, dashboards, and intake processes; support onboarding, training, adoption tracking, and consistent usage across global and local teams.
- Coordinate cross-workstream meetings, agendas, materials, notes, decisions, and follow-up actions, ensuring information is captured and routed to the right owners.
- Support change management activities, including stakeholder tracking, impact assessments, communications, training coordination, readiness checks, and adoption follow-up.
- Manage integration logistics such as onboarding activities, access and equipment needs, scheduling, documentation, stakeholder lists, and key integration events.
- Maintain integration financials, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, purchase orders, invoices, contractor spend, variances, and supporting documentation; flag inconsistencies and emerging risks.
- Inventory the broader technology stack used by each acquired firm, documenting tools, contracts, owners, dependencies, renewal considerations, and transition questions for review by functional and technology leads.
- Monitor progress across workstreams, identify gaps or conflicting inputs, assess potential downstream impacts, and prepare clear issue summaries with practical response options for the Marketing Operations Lead.
- Provide capability leads with coordinated information, trackers, access, follow-up, and administrative support so they can focus on specialized integration delivery.
- Apply and improve integration playbooks, templates, governance routines, decision logs, and handoff documentation to make onboarding more consistent and repeatable across firms.
- Support executive status reporting and clean transition into BAU ownership by consolidating progress, financials, risks, decisions, documentation, training, and open actions.
Other duties as assigned.
You Have the Following Technical Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, or related field
- 5-8 years of experience in business operations, marketing operations, program coordination, integration, transformation, or related roles within professional services or B2B environments
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple workstreams, maintaining integrated plans, and managing dependencies across cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving and synthesis skills, with the ability to organize incomplete information, identify implications, and frame clear issues, options, and next steps
- Experience supporting project and work management platforms, including workflow configuration, dashboards, templates, user onboarding, and adoption; ClickUp experience preferred
- Experience maintaining budgets, forecasts, purchase orders, invoices, contractor spend, or other financial and operational tracking
- Comfort learning unfamiliar technology environments and documenting systems, contracts, owners, integrations, and dependencies
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage logistics, documentation, meetings, deadlines, and follow-up across concurrent priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise status updates and decision-ready materials for varied stakeholders
- Dynamic, proactive, and comfortable navigating ambiguity, changing priorities, geographically dispersed teams, and situations where processes are still being defined; can travel as needed
The base salary range for this position is between $96,000 and $144,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.
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Match your credentials to EB-2 or EB-3
An Operations Associate role can qualify under EB-2 if the position requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience, or under EB-3 for a standard bachelor's degree. Confirm which category your offer letter supports before the employer files PERM.
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Target companies with verified employment-based green card sponsorship history by searching Operations Associate roles on Migrate Mate. The platform surfaces employers who have actively sponsored permanent residency, so you spend your time on realistic opportunities rather than speculative applications.
Verify your SOC code using O*NET
PERM labor certification ties directly to your Standard Occupational Classification code. Pull the O*NET occupation profile for Operations Associate to confirm the minimum education and experience requirements, then check that your job duties align before your employer posts the required recruitment ads.
Track your priority date before accepting offers
Nationals from India and China face per-country annual limits that can create long waits before an immigrant visa number becomes available. Review the monthly Visa Bulletin with your employer before signing an offer so both sides understand the realistic timeline to permanent residency.
Request a prevailing-wage determination early
Your employer must submit a prevailing-wage request to DOL through PERM before recruiting begins, and the certified wage locks in your minimum salary for the duration of the process. Use the OFLC Wage Search to preview the wage level for your role and location before negotiations start.
Preserve your priority date across employer changes
If your I-485 has been pending 180 days or more, AC21 portability lets you move to a new employer in the same or similar occupation without losing your place in line. You can also carry your original priority date to a new employer's I-140 once USCIS approved the first petition.
Green Card Operations Associate: Frequently Asked Questions
Can an employer sponsor an Operations Associate for a green card, and what does that process look like?
Yes. Most employers sponsor Operations Associates through the EB-2 or EB-3 employment-based categories. The process starts with PERM labor certification filed with the Department of Labor, which requires a prevailing-wage determination and a formal recruitment test to show no qualified U.S. workers are available. After DOL certifies PERM, the employer files an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS, and you pursue adjustment of status or consular processing to receive your green card.
How is green card sponsorship different from H-1B sponsorship for an Operations Associate role?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant status renewed every few years, while green card sponsorship leads to lawful permanent residency with no renewal requirement. The green card path adds a PERM labor certification step that H-1B does not require, and employment-based green cards carry annual numerical limits with per-country caps that can create significant waits for nationals of India and China. Priority dates, the Visa Bulletin, and I-485 portability rules are unique to the green card process.
Which EB category typically covers an Operations Associate position?
Operations Associate roles most often fall under EB-3 when the position requires a bachelor's degree, or under EB-2 when the employer can document that the job genuinely requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive, specialized experience. The distinction matters because EB-2 and EB-3 have separate priority-date queues, and your category affects how long you wait for a visa number to become available.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor green cards for Operations Associate roles?
Search Operations Associate positions on Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified employment-based green card sponsorship history. Because PERM filings are public DOL records, Migrate Mate surfaces companies that have committed real resources to sponsoring permanent residency for roles in this occupation, letting you focus your applications on employers who are already set up to run the process.
What happens to my green card case if I change jobs after my I-140 is approved?
Two separate rules apply. Once USCIS approves your I-140, your priority date is locked in and can be transferred to a new employer's I-140 petition even if you leave before filing an I-485. If your I-485 adjustment application has been pending for at least 180 days, AC21 portability lets you change to a new employer in the same or similar occupation without restarting the green card process from the beginning.