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General Manager roles qualify for H-1B sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field, business administration, management, or a specialized discipline. Large multinationals, hotel groups, and multi-unit operators file LCAs regularly for this title. Competition for sponsored GM roles is real, but employers who already have active H-1B filing history move faster.
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Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.
Instawork is seeking a General Manager, Data Centers to accelerate and scale our rapidly growing presence in the booming data center industry. Working closely with Instawork’s leadership team, this is a high-octane opportunity to drive strategy, capture market share, and optimize execution in one of the world's fastest-growing sectors.
You will be tasked with scaling the connection between our 10M+ flexible workers ("Pros") and the massive, continuous labor demands of data center builders, general contractors, operators, and hyperscalers. Your goal: parachute into high-impact expansion initiatives, optimize our go-to-market strategy, supercharge our supply and demand engines, and do absolutely whatever it takes to accelerate the marketplace flywheel in critical data center hubs.
What You’ll Do
- Scale the Playbook: Take our data center vertical from 1 to 10. You will drive operational excellence—whether that means streamlining complex site-access and safety protocols, standardizing onboarding for massive construction build-outs and hardware deployments, or expanding our footprint in key markets—until the vertical is a massive, self-sustaining engine.
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Strategic Execution & Partnership Expansion: Refine and implement Instawork’s growth strategy for the data center space. Cultivate, grow, and own relationships with top-tier general contractors, data center operators, colocation providers, and infrastructure tech giants, turning initial pilots into enterprise-wide deployments.
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Market & Data Needs Analysis: Deeply understand the unique labor, compliance, and safety requirements of both active construction sites and live data center environments. Leverage data to anticipate partner pain points and ensure Instawork’s tech and operations can seamlessly support their massive, fluctuating workforce needs throughout the entire facility lifecycle.
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Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations to move aggressively and iterate on the fly. You will turn operational friction into scalable, automated processes and act as an internal driver of cross-functional alignment to unblock growth.
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Thought Leadership & Evangelism: Represent Instawork externally as a thought leader in the data center workforce space. Regularly present progress, growth metrics, and strategic recommendations to Instawork's executive leadership, shaping the company’s long-term vision for infrastructure support.
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Own the Road: Expect extensive travel to major data center markets. Your office is wherever the next massive launch, key partner expansion, or operational optimization takes you.
Who You Are
- Domain Expert & Relationship Builder: 4+ years of experience in commercial construction (specifically mission-critical or data center builds), data center operations, infrastructure scaling, or management consulting within the tech/infrastructure space. You understand the full lifecycle of a data center, from ground-breaking and construction to commissioning and ongoing facilities management.
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Scaling Mindset & Extreme Bias for Action: You don't wait for permission or perfect data; you deliver results. You thrive in a high-pressure environment where the pace is fast, expectations are massive, and you know how to build systems that sustain hyper-growth.
-
Strategic & Curious: You think big-picture while staying fiercely grounded in data and execution. You are deeply comfortable with fast iteration, navigating complex enterprise requirements, and solving unstructured problems in a rapidly evolving industry.
-
Multi-disciplinary Executor: You have a proven track record of managing high-growth expansion, optimizing complex operations, and turning early momentum into sustainable, long-term market dominance. You are highly skilled at working across multiple functions to deliver results.
For CA-based applicants:
- The base salary for this position is $160,000 - $200,000
- This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
- This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:
- A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 8 paid company holidays annually
- Phone stipend
- Commuter stipend
- Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
- Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
- Flexible spending plans
- 401K plan
- Perkspot - discount program through Lumity
A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation, including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.
Our Values
- Empathy, Trust & Candor
We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.
-
Bias for Action
We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!
-
Always Be Learning
We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.
-
Act Like an Owner
We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.
About Instawork
Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we’re supporting local economies—and we’re just getting started!
Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We’re solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale.
Join our team to help us build something that matters! We’re looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we’re back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
Ready to make an impact? Learn more at www.instawork.com/about.
INTRODUCTION
Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.
Instawork is seeking a General Manager, Data Centers to accelerate and scale our rapidly growing presence in the booming data center industry. Working closely with Instawork’s leadership team, this is a high-octane opportunity to drive strategy, capture market share, and optimize execution in one of the world's fastest-growing sectors.
You will be tasked with scaling the connection between our 10M+ flexible workers ("Pros") and the massive, continuous labor demands of data center builders, general contractors, operators, and hyperscalers. Your goal: parachute into high-impact expansion initiatives, optimize our go-to-market strategy, supercharge our supply and demand engines, and do absolutely whatever it takes to accelerate the marketplace flywheel in critical data center hubs.
What You’ll Do
- Scale the Playbook: Take our data center vertical from 1 to 10. You will drive operational excellence—whether that means streamlining complex site-access and safety protocols, standardizing onboarding for massive construction build-outs and hardware deployments, or expanding our footprint in key markets—until the vertical is a massive, self-sustaining engine.
-
Strategic Execution & Partnership Expansion: Refine and implement Instawork’s growth strategy for the data center space. Cultivate, grow, and own relationships with top-tier general contractors, data center operators, colocation providers, and infrastructure tech giants, turning initial pilots into enterprise-wide deployments.
-
Market & Data Needs Analysis: Deeply understand the unique labor, compliance, and safety requirements of both active construction sites and live data center environments. Leverage data to anticipate partner pain points and ensure Instawork’s tech and operations can seamlessly support their massive, fluctuating workforce needs throughout the entire facility lifecycle.
-
Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations to move aggressively and iterate on the fly. You will turn operational friction into scalable, automated processes and act as an internal driver of cross-functional alignment to unblock growth.
-
Thought Leadership & Evangelism: Represent Instawork externally as a thought leader in the data center workforce space. Regularly present progress, growth metrics, and strategic recommendations to Instawork's executive leadership, shaping the company’s long-term vision for infrastructure support.
-
Own the Road: Expect extensive travel to major data center markets. Your office is wherever the next massive launch, key partner expansion, or operational optimization takes you.
Who You Are
- Domain Expert & Relationship Builder: 4+ years of experience in commercial construction (specifically mission-critical or data center builds), data center operations, infrastructure scaling, or management consulting within the tech/infrastructure space. You understand the full lifecycle of a data center, from ground-breaking and construction to commissioning and ongoing facilities management.
-
Scaling Mindset & Extreme Bias for Action: You don't wait for permission or perfect data; you deliver results. You thrive in a high-pressure environment where the pace is fast, expectations are massive, and you know how to build systems that sustain hyper-growth.
-
Strategic & Curious: You think big-picture while staying fiercely grounded in data and execution. You are deeply comfortable with fast iteration, navigating complex enterprise requirements, and solving unstructured problems in a rapidly evolving industry.
-
Multi-disciplinary Executor: You have a proven track record of managing high-growth expansion, optimizing complex operations, and turning early momentum into sustainable, long-term market dominance. You are highly skilled at working across multiple functions to deliver results.
For CA-based applicants:
- The base salary for this position is $160,000 - $200,000
- This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
- This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:
- A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 8 paid company holidays annually
- Phone stipend
- Commuter stipend
- Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
- Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
- Flexible spending plans
- 401K plan
- Perkspot - discount program through Lumity
A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation, including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.
Our Values
- Empathy, Trust & Candor
We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.
-
Bias for Action
We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!
-
Always Be Learning
We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.
-
Act Like an Owner
We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.
About Instawork
Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we’re supporting local economies—and we’re just getting started!
Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We’re solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale.
Join our team to help us build something that matters! We’re looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we’re back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
Ready to make an impact? Learn more at www.instawork.com/about.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a General Manager
Verify your degree supports specialty occupation
General Manager is one of the titles USCIS scrutinizes for specialty occupation status. Check the O*NET profile for this occupation and confirm your degree field directly maps to the managerial functions in the job description, not just business administration broadly.
Target employers with active LCA filings
Search the OFLC Wage Search to identify companies that have filed LCAs for General Manager roles in your target city. Employers with recent filings already understand the H-1B process and are far less likely to withdraw an offer over sponsorship concerns.
Filter H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to search General Manager roles filtered by employers with verified H-1B filing history. This cuts out companies that list sponsorship as possible but have never actually filed, saving you weeks of dead-end conversations.
Address specialty occupation in your resume
Structure your resume to show that your GM role requires specialized knowledge, not generalist oversight. Quantify scope, P&L responsibility, headcount managed, technical systems owned, so the employer can make a stronger specialty occupation argument in the I-129 petition.
Clarify prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
DOL assigns General Manager positions to wage levels I through IV based on complexity and supervisory scope. Ask your employer which level they intend to file at and confirm your offered salary meets or exceeds that tier before you sign anything.
Plan your timeline around the cap and lottery
If you're not already in H-1B status, your employer must register you in the USCIS lottery in March for an October 1 start date. Build that six-month gap into your job search timeline so neither you nor the employer is caught off guard by the cap cycle.
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Find General Manager JobsGeneral Manager H-1B Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a General Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the position is defined. USCIS requires that the role normally demands at least a bachelor's degree in a specific related field. A GM role tied to a specialized industry, hotel operations, healthcare administration, engineering services, is easier to support than a generalist multi-department manager position. The employer's job description and your degree field both matter in the adjudication.
Which industries are most likely to sponsor H-1B visas for General Managers?
Hospitality groups, healthcare networks, technology firms, and multinational manufacturing companies file H-1B LCAs for General Manager titles most consistently. These employers tend to have established immigration processes and HR teams familiar with the paperwork. You can browse General Manager roles at verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate, filtered by industry and location.
Can my employer file an H-1B for me if I'm currently on OPT as a General Manager?
Yes. If you're on OPT and your employer wants to retain you, they must register you in the USCIS H-1B lottery in March. If selected, your H-1B becomes effective October 1. If your OPT expires before then, the cap-gap rule automatically extends your work authorization through September 30, provided your employer files the I-129 on time.
What documentation does my employer need to file an H-1B for a General Manager role?
Your employer first files a Labor Condition Application with DOL to certify the prevailing wage and working conditions. Once certified, they file Form I-129 with USCIS along with evidence that the position qualifies as a specialty occupation, typically including the job description, your academic credentials, and organizational charts showing reporting structure. Your degree transcripts and any professional licenses are your side of the package.
Is it harder to get H-1B approval for a General Manager title than for a technical role?
Approval rates for management titles have historically been lower than for STEM roles because USCIS more frequently issues Requests for Evidence questioning specialty occupation status. The key is a tightly written job description that ties managerial duties to a specific body of knowledge your degree provides. Employers who have successfully filed for this title before are better positioned to build that argument.
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