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Customer Specialist roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as business administration, communications, or information systems. Many mid-size and enterprise employers file LCAs for these roles, and the 85,000-slot annual cap means timing your search around the April lottery window matters.
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As Customer Experience Account Specialist, you will serve as a senior individual contributor responsible for managing customer experience health, account-level coordination, service visibility, and issue resolution across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center customers. This role ensures customers have clear visibility into readiness, delivery progress, operational support, escalations, and ongoing service commitments.
You will partner closely with Customer Experience leadership, Customer Success, Sales, Site Deployment, Data Center Operations, Engineering, Network, Security, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and customer stakeholders. You will maintain account-level operating discipline, coordinate customer-facing updates, identify risks early, and help ensure the customer experience remains consistent, transparent, and trusted across complex data center workflows.
NOTE: This is a full-time onsite role in Nashville, TN.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary customer experience account owner for assigned customers, accounts, sites, or deployment programs.
- Maintain account-level visibility into customer commitments, service expectations, delivery milestones, readiness risks, open issues, and escalation status.
- Coordinate customer-facing communications, account reviews, readiness updates, service reviews, action registers, and executive summaries.
- Partner with Customer Success, Sales, Site Deployment, Operations, Engineering, Network, Security, and other stakeholders to align customer expectations with delivery and operational realities.
- Track customer requirements related to capacity, deployment timing, access, security, compliance, network readiness, site support, service reporting, and operational handoff.
- Own customer issue logs, escalation trackers, action plans, decision records, and follow-up cadences through closure.
- Identify customer-impacting risks and drive cross-functional alignment on mitigation plans, owners, timelines, and communication strategy.
- Support customer onboarding, move-in readiness, audit coordination, service transition, and steady-state support processes.
- Prepare account-level dashboards, customer health summaries, KPI reporting, milestone updates, and leadership briefings.
- Ensure customer-facing commitments are accurately documented, tracked, escalated, and handed off to the appropriate operational owners.
- Partner with Data Center Operations to ensure customer support aligns with change management, incident response, maintenance windows, access procedures, and service management expectations.
- Capture recurring customer themes, friction points, and account risks to improve playbooks, reporting, governance, and customer experience standards.
- Support executive escalations by providing clear facts, current status, recommended next actions, and accountable owners.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 8+ years of experience in customer experience, account management, customer success, service delivery, technical program coordination, data center operations, infrastructure delivery, or mission-critical support.
- Experience supporting enterprise, cloud, colocation, telecommunications, or mission-critical infrastructure customers.
- Strong understanding of customer lifecycle management across onboarding, readiness, deployment, service transition, operational support, and escalation management.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate across Customer Success, Sales, Operations, Engineering, Deployment, Network, Security, Legal, Finance, and Procurement.
- Experience managing customer health reporting, action registers, escalation trackers, issue logs, account reviews, and executive updates.
- Strong written communication skills with the ability to create clear, accurate, customer-ready summaries.
- Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, operations, engineering, communications, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills and Competencies
- Customer-first mindset with strong judgment, ownership, and follow-through.
- Strong account coordination skills, including tracking commitments, risks, issues, decisions, and stakeholder actions.
- Clear written and verbal communication with executive presence and strong attention to detail.
- Ability to translate technical, operational, and delivery issues into customer-ready language.
- Strong cross-functional coordination and influence across matrixed teams.
- High comfort managing ambiguity, shifting priorities, and sensitive customer escalations.
- Strong process discipline with a bias toward clean records, accurate reporting, and repeatable operating standards.
Preferred Skills / Certifications
- Experience with data center customer support, customer move-in, deployment readiness, audit support, or colocation account operations.
- Familiarity with ITIL, service management, incident/change management, SLA/KPI reporting, customer health reporting, or executive business reviews.
- Experience with Salesforce, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Jira, Oracle systems, Tableau/Power BI, or similar CRM, workflow, and reporting tools.
- Customer success, ITIL, PMP, Six Sigma, or service management certification.
- Working knowledge of data center infrastructure, including power, cooling, network, physical security, access control, CMMS, BMS/EPMS, and operational procedures.
Physical Demands / Work Environment
This role operates in office, remote collaboration, customer-facing, and active data center environments. The position may require periodic travel to data center sites, customer meetings, deployment reviews, and operational readiness sessions. Site visits may involve walking large facilities, standing for extended periods, using stairs, and following all safety, security, and access-control requirements.
Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
- Global impact at cloud scale supporting some of the world's most demanding infrastructure customers.
- Customer-facing role where clarity, accountability, and operational trust matter every day.
- Culture built on ownership, execution discipline, continuous improvement, and cross-functional partnership.
- Long-term career development across customer experience, service delivery, data center operations, and cloud infrastructure leadership.
Role Overview
As Customer Experience Account Specialist, you will serve as a senior individual contributor responsible for managing customer experience health, account-level coordination, service visibility, and issue resolution across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center customers. This role ensures customers have clear visibility into readiness, delivery progress, operational support, escalations, and ongoing service commitments.
You will partner closely with Customer Experience leadership, Customer Success, Sales, Site Deployment, Data Center Operations, Engineering, Network, Security, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and customer stakeholders. You will maintain account-level operating discipline, coordinate customer-facing updates, identify risks early, and help ensure the customer experience remains consistent, transparent, and trusted across complex data center workflows.
NOTE: This is a full-time onsite role in Nashville, TN.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary customer experience account owner for assigned customers, accounts, sites, or deployment programs.
- Maintain account-level visibility into customer commitments, service expectations, delivery milestones, readiness risks, open issues, and escalation status.
- Coordinate customer-facing communications, account reviews, readiness updates, service reviews, action registers, and executive summaries.
- Partner with Customer Success, Sales, Site Deployment, Operations, Engineering, Network, Security, and other stakeholders to align customer expectations with delivery and operational realities.
- Track customer requirements related to capacity, deployment timing, access, security, compliance, network readiness, site support, service reporting, and operational handoff.
- Own customer issue logs, escalation trackers, action plans, decision records, and follow-up cadences through closure.
- Identify customer-impacting risks and drive cross-functional alignment on mitigation plans, owners, timelines, and communication strategy.
- Support customer onboarding, move-in readiness, audit coordination, service transition, and steady-state support processes.
- Prepare account-level dashboards, customer health summaries, KPI reporting, milestone updates, and leadership briefings.
- Ensure customer-facing commitments are accurately documented, tracked, escalated, and handed off to the appropriate operational owners.
- Partner with Data Center Operations to ensure customer support aligns with change management, incident response, maintenance windows, access procedures, and service management expectations.
- Capture recurring customer themes, friction points, and account risks to improve playbooks, reporting, governance, and customer experience standards.
- Support executive escalations by providing clear facts, current status, recommended next actions, and accountable owners.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 8+ years of experience in customer experience, account management, customer success, service delivery, technical program coordination, data center operations, infrastructure delivery, or mission-critical support.
- Experience supporting enterprise, cloud, colocation, telecommunications, or mission-critical infrastructure customers.
- Strong understanding of customer lifecycle management across onboarding, readiness, deployment, service transition, operational support, and escalation management.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate across Customer Success, Sales, Operations, Engineering, Deployment, Network, Security, Legal, Finance, and Procurement.
- Experience managing customer health reporting, action registers, escalation trackers, issue logs, account reviews, and executive updates.
- Strong written communication skills with the ability to create clear, accurate, customer-ready summaries.
- Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, operations, engineering, communications, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills and Competencies
- Customer-first mindset with strong judgment, ownership, and follow-through.
- Strong account coordination skills, including tracking commitments, risks, issues, decisions, and stakeholder actions.
- Clear written and verbal communication with executive presence and strong attention to detail.
- Ability to translate technical, operational, and delivery issues into customer-ready language.
- Strong cross-functional coordination and influence across matrixed teams.
- High comfort managing ambiguity, shifting priorities, and sensitive customer escalations.
- Strong process discipline with a bias toward clean records, accurate reporting, and repeatable operating standards.
Preferred Skills / Certifications
- Experience with data center customer support, customer move-in, deployment readiness, audit support, or colocation account operations.
- Familiarity with ITIL, service management, incident/change management, SLA/KPI reporting, customer health reporting, or executive business reviews.
- Experience with Salesforce, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Jira, Oracle systems, Tableau/Power BI, or similar CRM, workflow, and reporting tools.
- Customer success, ITIL, PMP, Six Sigma, or service management certification.
- Working knowledge of data center infrastructure, including power, cooling, network, physical security, access control, CMMS, BMS/EPMS, and operational procedures.
Physical Demands / Work Environment
This role operates in office, remote collaboration, customer-facing, and active data center environments. The position may require periodic travel to data center sites, customer meetings, deployment reviews, and operational readiness sessions. Site visits may involve walking large facilities, standing for extended periods, using stairs, and following all safety, security, and access-control requirements.
Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
- Global impact at cloud scale supporting some of the world's most demanding infrastructure customers.
- Customer-facing role where clarity, accountability, and operational trust matter every day.
- Culture built on ownership, execution discipline, continuous improvement, and cross-functional partnership.
- Long-term career development across customer experience, service delivery, data center operations, and cloud infrastructure leadership.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Customer Specialist
Confirm your degree supports specialty occupation
Customer Specialist petitions get challenged when the employer can't show the role requires a specific bachelor's degree. Pull your transcripts and map your coursework to the job description before applying, so the employer's I-129 petition holds up under USCIS review.
Look up prevailing wage before salary talks
Use the OFLC Wage Search to find the Level I through Level IV wage for Customer Specialist under your target employer's metro area. The LCA must certify a wage at or above that threshold, so knowing the floor before negotiations protects your petition from a DOL challenge.
Target employers with E-Verify enrollment
H-1B sponsoring employers must be E-Verify participants. Filter your search to companies already enrolled before investing time in interviews. Migrate Mate surfaces verified H-1B filing history by employer, so you can confirm sponsorship track record before your first application.
Register before the March cap lottery deadline
USCIS opens H-1B cap registrations in early March each year for a roughly two-week window. Missing that window means waiting another 12 months. If you're in final-round interviews by February, push your employer to confirm their legal counsel is ready to register on your behalf by the opening date.
Check whether your role qualifies under O*NET
The O*NET profile for Customer Specialist roles lists typical education requirements and job zone classifications that USCIS adjudicators reference when evaluating specialty occupation. If your employer's job description lists only a high school diploma or any bachelor's degree, it weakens the H-1B case and you'll need an amended description.
Request a cap-exempt employer if lottery selection fails
Universities, nonprofit research organizations, and certain government-affiliated entities are exempt from the 85,000-slot cap. Customer Specialist roles at these organizations can be filed any time of year. If you're not selected in the lottery, pivot your search to cap-exempt institutions where the role still fits your background.
H-1B Visa Customer Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Customer Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the employer defines the position. USCIS requires the role to normally require a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific specialty. A Customer Specialist tied to a technical product, financial platform, or information system typically qualifies. A generalist customer service role with no specific degree requirement usually does not. The employer's job description and the O*NET job zone classification both factor into how USCIS evaluates the petition.
Which degree fields support an H-1B petition for a Customer Specialist position?
Business administration, communications, marketing, information systems, and psychology are the most commonly accepted fields when the Customer Specialist role involves client relationship management, product onboarding, or technical support. The degree field must have a logical and direct connection to the specific duties in the job description. A mismatch between your degree and the role's core functions is one of the most common reasons USCIS issues a Request for Evidence on these petitions.
How do I find employers who actually sponsor H-1B visas for Customer Specialist roles?
Search Migrate Mate for Customer Specialist positions filtered by H-1B sponsorship history. Migrate Mate surfaces employer LCA filing data from the DOL, so you can see which companies have filed Labor Condition Applications for this job category rather than relying on unverified job posting language. Focusing on employers with a consistent filing history reduces the risk of accepting an offer from a company that hasn't successfully navigated the H-1B process before.
Can a Customer Specialist on OPT use cap-gap protection while waiting for H-1B lottery results?
Yes. If your employer submits a timely H-1B registration before your OPT expires and USCIS selects the petition, cap-gap automatically extends your OPT work authorization through September 30 of that year. Your employer needs to file the I-129 petition before your EAD expires for the full cap-gap extension to apply. USCIS issues a receipt notice that serves as proof of continued authorization during this period.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Customer Specialist role changes significantly after I'm approved?
A material change in job duties, location, or employer requires an amended H-1B petition. If your employer reshuffles your responsibilities away from the specialty occupation described in the original I-129, the existing approval no longer covers the new role. USCIS considers changes like moving from a client-facing technical support function to a general administrative function as potentially disqualifying material changes. Your employer's legal counsel should evaluate any significant job restructuring before it takes effect.