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Head of Technology roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field. Employers file the LCA with DOL and petition USCIS, with the annual cap lottery typically opening in March for an October 1 start date.
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Get Access To All JobsAt Zurich Cover-More, we're proud to be one of the world's leading travel insurance and assistance providers. Each year, we protect more than 20 million travellers worldwide, making sure we're there every step of their journey with proactive care, personalised cover and specialist support. Zurich Cover-More partners with many of the world's best-known brands - think major airlines, travel giants, top banks, credit card providers, and large retailers - to deliver more care, more cover, for all.
Launched in December 2024, Zurich Cover-More is the global travel brand of Zurich Insurance Group, one of the world's leading multi-line insurers. Our family of customer-facing brands includes trusted names like Travel Guard, Cover-More Travel Insurance, Travelex Insurance, Universal Assistance, World Travel Protection, Freely, and Blue Insurance. Together, we're redefining what it means to travel safely and with confidence. Whether it's a long-awaited holiday, a last-minute business trip, or an unexpected detour, we deliver in the moments that matter.
What you'll be doing:
In this role, you'll strengthen the connection between business strategy and technology priorities across North America. Working closely with senior business and technology leaders, you'll shape demand, establish clear priorities, and help ensure technology investments, resources, and delivery capacity are aligned to the priorities that matter most to the business.
- You'll act as a key technology partner to senior business leaders, developing a strong understanding of their strategies, priorities, and challenges.
- You'll translate business needs into clear technology requirements and actionable priorities.
- You'll strengthen alignment between business objectives and the North American technology agenda.
- You'll lead the technology demand intake process, ensuring new requests are clearly defined and assessed before prioritisation.
- You'll maintain visibility across the technology demand pipeline, including emerging requirements and business priorities.
- You'll evaluate competing demands based on business value, urgency, dependencies, and available capacity.
- You'll provide recommendations to senior leadership and steering committees to support informed investment and prioritisation decisions.
- You'll partner with IT leadership to understand delivery capacity, identify constraints, and recommend how resources should be allocated against business priorities.
- You'll ensure business problems, expected outcomes, scope, and requirements are clearly defined before initiatives progress into delivery.
- You'll establish expected business value upfront and provide visibility into whether technology investments are delivering their intended outcomes.
- You'll provide clear reporting on technology demand, portfolio priorities, capacity constraints, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
- You'll lead and develop technology talent, supporting a collaborative and business-focused approach to IT planning.
What skills and experience you'll bring on this journey:
- A strong understanding of business strategy and how technology enables commercial and operational outcomes.
- Experience partnering with senior business and technology leaders.
- A background in technology strategy, IT planning, governance, or portfolio management.
- Strong knowledge of technology delivery processes and resource or capacity planning.
- The ability to assess competing priorities, evaluate trade-offs, and provide clear recommendations.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Experience leading technology teams and developing talent.
- Desirable: Previous experience within insurance, financial services, or a similarly complex business environment.
Why you'll love working with us!
We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability, results-orientation, and forward-thinking.
We have more than 3000 employees worldwide. We are a global group of digital specialists, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts, customer service and corporate services professionals. We share a global purpose to look after travellers, at every step of their journey.
Job flexibility. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around. Our hybrid approach ensures you can maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
Career growth. This is an extremely exciting time for us at Zurich Cover-More, as we rapidly expand our business across the globe. We're committed to helping our people thrive through a comprehensive onboarding experience, continuous professional development, and a supportive work environment that empowers growth at every stage of your career.
Take the time you need, for you and your community. We encourage you to take the time you need when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.
Investing in your health and your future. We offer a competitive high-deductible health plan, EAP programs and access to health and well-being activities along with a 401(k) program with employer matching to help you plan for your future.
Diversity and inclusion. We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. Wherever life has taken you, we welcome you to bring your whole self to work. Just be you - because that's exactly who we're looking for.
Apply today and let's go to great places together!
At Zurich Cover-More, compensation for roles is influenced by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. In compliance with local laws, Zurich commits to providing a fair and reasonable compensation range for each role. For more information about our Total Rewards, please click here. Additional rewards may encompass short-term incentive bonuses and merit increases. We encourage candidates with salary expectations beyond the provided range to apply as they will be considered based on their experience, skills, and education.
The compensation indicated represents a nationwide market range and has not been adjusted for geographic differentials pertaining to the location where the position may be filled. The proposed salary range for this position is $175,200 - $287,000 with STIP of 25%.
At Zurich Cover-More, we're proud to be one of the world's leading travel insurance and assistance providers. Each year, we protect more than 20 million travellers worldwide, making sure we're there every step of their journey with proactive care, personalised cover and specialist support. Zurich Cover-More partners with many of the world's best-known brands - think major airlines, travel giants, top banks, credit card providers, and large retailers - to deliver more care, more cover, for all.
Launched in December 2024, Zurich Cover-More is the global travel brand of Zurich Insurance Group, one of the world's leading multi-line insurers. Our family of customer-facing brands includes trusted names like Travel Guard, Cover-More Travel Insurance, Travelex Insurance, Universal Assistance, World Travel Protection, Freely, and Blue Insurance. Together, we're redefining what it means to travel safely and with confidence. Whether it's a long-awaited holiday, a last-minute business trip, or an unexpected detour, we deliver in the moments that matter.
What you'll be doing:
In this role, you'll strengthen the connection between business strategy and technology priorities across North America. Working closely with senior business and technology leaders, you'll shape demand, establish clear priorities, and help ensure technology investments, resources, and delivery capacity are aligned to the priorities that matter most to the business.
- You'll act as a key technology partner to senior business leaders, developing a strong understanding of their strategies, priorities, and challenges.
- You'll translate business needs into clear technology requirements and actionable priorities.
- You'll strengthen alignment between business objectives and the North American technology agenda.
- You'll lead the technology demand intake process, ensuring new requests are clearly defined and assessed before prioritisation.
- You'll maintain visibility across the technology demand pipeline, including emerging requirements and business priorities.
- You'll evaluate competing demands based on business value, urgency, dependencies, and available capacity.
- You'll provide recommendations to senior leadership and steering committees to support informed investment and prioritisation decisions.
- You'll partner with IT leadership to understand delivery capacity, identify constraints, and recommend how resources should be allocated against business priorities.
- You'll ensure business problems, expected outcomes, scope, and requirements are clearly defined before initiatives progress into delivery.
- You'll establish expected business value upfront and provide visibility into whether technology investments are delivering their intended outcomes.
- You'll provide clear reporting on technology demand, portfolio priorities, capacity constraints, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
- You'll lead and develop technology talent, supporting a collaborative and business-focused approach to IT planning.
What skills and experience you'll bring on this journey:
- A strong understanding of business strategy and how technology enables commercial and operational outcomes.
- Experience partnering with senior business and technology leaders.
- A background in technology strategy, IT planning, governance, or portfolio management.
- Strong knowledge of technology delivery processes and resource or capacity planning.
- The ability to assess competing priorities, evaluate trade-offs, and provide clear recommendations.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Experience leading technology teams and developing talent.
- Desirable: Previous experience within insurance, financial services, or a similarly complex business environment.
Why you'll love working with us!
We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability, results-orientation, and forward-thinking.
We have more than 3000 employees worldwide. We are a global group of digital specialists, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts, customer service and corporate services professionals. We share a global purpose to look after travellers, at every step of their journey.
Job flexibility. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around. Our hybrid approach ensures you can maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
Career growth. This is an extremely exciting time for us at Zurich Cover-More, as we rapidly expand our business across the globe. We're committed to helping our people thrive through a comprehensive onboarding experience, continuous professional development, and a supportive work environment that empowers growth at every stage of your career.
Take the time you need, for you and your community. We encourage you to take the time you need when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.
Investing in your health and your future. We offer a competitive high-deductible health plan, EAP programs and access to health and well-being activities along with a 401(k) program with employer matching to help you plan for your future.
Diversity and inclusion. We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. Wherever life has taken you, we welcome you to bring your whole self to work. Just be you - because that's exactly who we're looking for.
Apply today and let's go to great places together!
At Zurich Cover-More, compensation for roles is influenced by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. In compliance with local laws, Zurich commits to providing a fair and reasonable compensation range for each role. For more information about our Total Rewards, please click here. Additional rewards may encompass short-term incentive bonuses and merit increases. We encourage candidates with salary expectations beyond the provided range to apply as they will be considered based on their experience, skills, and education.
The compensation indicated represents a nationwide market range and has not been adjusted for geographic differentials pertaining to the location where the position may be filled. The proposed salary range for this position is $175,200 - $287,000 with STIP of 25%.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Head Of Technology
Map your credentials to specialty occupation standards
USCIS requires that a Head of Technology role normally requires a specific bachelor's degree, not just any degree. Document how your technical degree directly relates to the strategic and architectural responsibilities in your job description before any employer files.
Target employers with cap-exempt filing options
Universities, affiliated nonprofits, and government research organizations can file H-1B petitions outside the annual lottery cap. Head of Technology roles at these institutions can start immediately after approval, bypassing the October 1 wait entirely.
Search H-1B filing history on Migrate Mate
Filter Head of Technology roles by employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history on Migrate Mate. This shows which companies have actively sponsored technical leadership positions, so you're not guessing about sponsorship willingness during interviews.
Verify prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Head of Technology roles typically fall at DOL wage Level III or IV. Use the OFLC Wage Search to confirm the prevailing wage for your job's SOC code and work location before signing, since the LCA must certify your offered salary meets that threshold.
Negotiate offer timing around the H-1B lottery window
H-1B registrations open in March, and USCIS selects in April for an October 1 start. If you're on F-1 OPT, confirm your EAD expiration date covers the gap. Employers filing for senior technology roles often use premium processing to reduce the 3-to-5-month petition wait.
Clarify the LCA job duties before USCIS adjudication
Requests for Evidence on Head of Technology petitions often challenge whether the role genuinely requires a specific degree versus broad business management experience. Work with your employer to ensure the LCA job description emphasizes technical architecture, engineering oversight, or systems design responsibilities.
H-1B Visa Head Of Technology: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Head of Technology role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, if the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field such as computer science, information technology, or software engineering. USCIS scrutinizes executive and hybrid leadership titles more closely than purely technical roles, so the job description must emphasize specialized technical duties, not just team management or business strategy, to satisfy the specialty occupation standard.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Head of Technology positions?
Technology companies, financial services firms, healthcare systems, and large enterprises with in-house engineering teams regularly sponsor H-1B visas for Head of Technology roles. You can browse employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history for technical leadership positions on Migrate Mate, filtering by industry or location to identify companies that have sponsored comparable roles before.
Can a Head of Technology petition be filed outside the H-1B lottery cap?
Yes, if the employer is a qualifying cap-exempt institution. Universities, nonprofit research organizations affiliated with universities, and government research entities can file H-1B petitions year-round without competing in the annual lottery. Head of Technology roles at university IT departments or affiliated research centers are common examples where cap-exempt filing applies.
What happens to my H-1B status if I'm promoted from a technical role to Head of Technology?
A material change in job duties, title, or location generally requires an amended H-1B petition before the change takes effect. Moving into a Head of Technology role with substantially different responsibilities triggers this requirement. Your employer needs to file a new LCA certified by DOL reflecting the updated position before USCIS processes the amended petition.
How do I know if the H-1B prevailing wage for Head of Technology matches my offer?
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the prevailing wage for your specific SOC code, which is typically in the computer and information systems managers category, filtered by your work location. The DOL-certified LCA your employer files must certify your offered salary meets at least the Level I prevailing wage, and senior roles often require Level III or IV compliance.