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Operations Leader roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in business administration, industrial engineering, supply chain management, or a directly related field. Employers file an LCA with DOL before petitioning USCIS, certifying the offered wage meets the prevailing wage for your specific metro area.
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The Product Operations Leader is responsible for scaling and governing product operations across a complex, multi-product, global SaaS portfolio. This role serves as the connective tissue between Product Management, Business Leaders, Software Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams - Marketing, Sales, Customer Success — ensuring our products are delivered consistently, efficiently, scaled responsibly, and continuously improved using data-driven insights.
This role requires strong systems thinking, operational rigor, and a passion for enabling product teams to perform at their best in a fast-paced, regulated SaaS environment.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Product Operations Strategy & Execution
- Design and evolve the end-to-end product operating rhythm (strategy roadmap delivery, measurement)
- Ensure decision points (strategy, funding, prioritization) happen at the right time — not reactively
- Establish and/or embed scalable, repeatable planning and execution cadences across teams
Intake, Prioritization & Decision Discipline
- Establish lightweight intake and triage mechanisms for new opportunities (e.g., deal-driven requests, customer inputs)
- Improve clarity and consistency in how roadmap decisions are made and communicated
- Partner with Product & Sales leadership to reduce escalation-driven prioritization
Cross-Functional Enablement
- Align Product, Business, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Finance around shared priorities and timing
- Enable predictable coordination across GTM, releases, and roadmap commitments
- Act as a neutral orchestrator across functions (without formal authority)
- Act as a strategic partner to Business, Engineering, Design, Sales, GTM, Customer Success, and Support
- Improve feedback loops from customers and internal stakeholders into product decision-making and roadmap prioritization
- Enable high-quality launches through strong coordination and readiness practices and post-launch measurement
Data, Insights & Operational Review
- Define and operationalize product and business metrics (OKRs, adoption, outcomes)
- Build executive-ready dashboards and monthly/quarterly operating reviews
- Ensure insights are used to inform decisions — not just reported
Process, Tools & Scalability
- Rationalize and optimize product tooling (Aha, Jira, Dovetail, analytics platforms)
- Balance speed vs governance — avoiding unnecessary process overhead while ensuring quality and accountability
- Drive consistency across global teams without reducing autonomy
Change Leadership & Organizational Scale
- Coach product leaders on operating model, continuous improvement and operational excellence best practices
- Lead adoption of new ways of working (pods, lifecycle improvements, etc.)
- Enable scaling across multiple products, teams, and geographies
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of experience in Product Operations, Product Management, or Business Operations within a SaaS or technology environment
- Proven experience building Product Operations in a multi-product SaaS environment
- Strong systems thinker AND executor
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders without authority
- Deep understanding of Agile, product lifecycle and business planning
- Success aligning disparate cross-functional priorities (Sales/Product/Engineering)
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience integrating acquired products or teams into a unified operating model
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
- Product teams operate with clear priorities and fewer mid-cycle disruptions
- Roadmap decisions are predictable, transparent, data-informed and aligned to business goals
- Deal-driven requests are handled through structured intake, not escalation
- Leaders have real-time visibility into performance, risks, and outcomes
- The organization shifts from reactive execution to proactive, data-informed decisions
- Scalable operating rhythms are embedded but do not slow down Agile teams
WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS
This role is critical to ensuring our product organization can scale with speed, clarity, and focus. The SaaS Product Operations Leader enables better decisions, healthier teams, and stronger outcomes for customers and the business.
WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR ULS
UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we’re still leading the way. From day one, we’ve blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the name of safety science.
That’s where you come in — because none of it could happen without you. It takes passion to protect people, problem-solving to safeguard personal data and conviction to make the world a more sustainable place. It takes bold ideas and brilliant minds to build a better world for future generations across the globe.
This is more than a job. It’s a calling. A passion to use our expertise and play our part in creating a more secure, sustainable world today — and tomorrow. As a member of our safety science community, you’ll use your ideas, your energy and your ambition to innovate, challenge and ultimately, help create a safer world.
Everyone here is unique. But we’re also a global community, working together to help create a safer world. Join UL Solutions and you can connect with the brightest minds in the business, all bringing their distinct perspectives and diverse backgrounds together to deliver real change.
Empowering our customers to keep the world safe means thinking ahead. It means investing in training and empowering our people to learn and innovate. At UL Solutions, we help build a better future — one where everyone benefits.
Join UL Solutions to be at the center of safety. To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com
TOTAL REWARDS
We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $150,000 to $200,000 USD and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
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A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
When you combine the gravitas of a 130-year-old safety science leader with a culture of innovation that pushes the boundaries in new services and technology, you get UL Solutions. As a global team of business and engineering experts, we develop software for a huge range of industries, including medical, sustainability, renewable energy and healthy buildings. Together, we’re dedicated to making a real-world difference, to using our knowledge for good and to pioneering positive change. Join our team and use your expertise to transform global safety, security and sustainability.
INTRODUCTION
The Product Operations Leader is responsible for scaling and governing product operations across a complex, multi-product, global SaaS portfolio. This role serves as the connective tissue between Product Management, Business Leaders, Software Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams - Marketing, Sales, Customer Success — ensuring our products are delivered consistently, efficiently, scaled responsibly, and continuously improved using data-driven insights.
This role requires strong systems thinking, operational rigor, and a passion for enabling product teams to perform at their best in a fast-paced, regulated SaaS environment.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Product Operations Strategy & Execution
- Design and evolve the end-to-end product operating rhythm (strategy roadmap delivery, measurement)
- Ensure decision points (strategy, funding, prioritization) happen at the right time — not reactively
- Establish and/or embed scalable, repeatable planning and execution cadences across teams
Intake, Prioritization & Decision Discipline
- Establish lightweight intake and triage mechanisms for new opportunities (e.g., deal-driven requests, customer inputs)
- Improve clarity and consistency in how roadmap decisions are made and communicated
- Partner with Product & Sales leadership to reduce escalation-driven prioritization
Cross-Functional Enablement
- Align Product, Business, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Finance around shared priorities and timing
- Enable predictable coordination across GTM, releases, and roadmap commitments
- Act as a neutral orchestrator across functions (without formal authority)
- Act as a strategic partner to Business, Engineering, Design, Sales, GTM, Customer Success, and Support
- Improve feedback loops from customers and internal stakeholders into product decision-making and roadmap prioritization
- Enable high-quality launches through strong coordination and readiness practices and post-launch measurement
Data, Insights & Operational Review
- Define and operationalize product and business metrics (OKRs, adoption, outcomes)
- Build executive-ready dashboards and monthly/quarterly operating reviews
- Ensure insights are used to inform decisions — not just reported
Process, Tools & Scalability
- Rationalize and optimize product tooling (Aha, Jira, Dovetail, analytics platforms)
- Balance speed vs governance — avoiding unnecessary process overhead while ensuring quality and accountability
- Drive consistency across global teams without reducing autonomy
Change Leadership & Organizational Scale
- Coach product leaders on operating model, continuous improvement and operational excellence best practices
- Lead adoption of new ways of working (pods, lifecycle improvements, etc.)
- Enable scaling across multiple products, teams, and geographies
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of experience in Product Operations, Product Management, or Business Operations within a SaaS or technology environment
- Proven experience building Product Operations in a multi-product SaaS environment
- Strong systems thinker AND executor
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders without authority
- Deep understanding of Agile, product lifecycle and business planning
- Success aligning disparate cross-functional priorities (Sales/Product/Engineering)
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience integrating acquired products or teams into a unified operating model
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
- Product teams operate with clear priorities and fewer mid-cycle disruptions
- Roadmap decisions are predictable, transparent, data-informed and aligned to business goals
- Deal-driven requests are handled through structured intake, not escalation
- Leaders have real-time visibility into performance, risks, and outcomes
- The organization shifts from reactive execution to proactive, data-informed decisions
- Scalable operating rhythms are embedded but do not slow down Agile teams
WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS
This role is critical to ensuring our product organization can scale with speed, clarity, and focus. The SaaS Product Operations Leader enables better decisions, healthier teams, and stronger outcomes for customers and the business.
WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR ULS
UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we’re still leading the way. From day one, we’ve blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the name of safety science.
That’s where you come in — because none of it could happen without you. It takes passion to protect people, problem-solving to safeguard personal data and conviction to make the world a more sustainable place. It takes bold ideas and brilliant minds to build a better world for future generations across the globe.
This is more than a job. It’s a calling. A passion to use our expertise and play our part in creating a more secure, sustainable world today — and tomorrow. As a member of our safety science community, you’ll use your ideas, your energy and your ambition to innovate, challenge and ultimately, help create a safer world.
Everyone here is unique. But we’re also a global community, working together to help create a safer world. Join UL Solutions and you can connect with the brightest minds in the business, all bringing their distinct perspectives and diverse backgrounds together to deliver real change.
Empowering our customers to keep the world safe means thinking ahead. It means investing in training and empowering our people to learn and innovate. At UL Solutions, we help build a better future — one where everyone benefits.
Join UL Solutions to be at the center of safety. To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com
TOTAL REWARDS
We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $150,000 to $200,000 USD and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
LI-SG2
LI-Hybrid
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
When you combine the gravitas of a 130-year-old safety science leader with a culture of innovation that pushes the boundaries in new services and technology, you get UL Solutions. As a global team of business and engineering experts, we develop software for a huge range of industries, including medical, sustainability, renewable energy and healthy buildings. Together, we’re dedicated to making a real-world difference, to using our knowledge for good and to pioneering positive change. Join our team and use your expertise to transform global safety, security and sustainability.
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Verify your degree field aligns precisely
Operations Leader petitions get RFEs when the degree field is too general. A business administration or industrial engineering degree maps cleanly to the role. A liberal arts degree, even with years of operations experience, creates a specialty occupation argument you'll need to document carefully.
Target employers with dedicated HR infrastructure
Companies without an in-house immigration team often stall or abandon H-1B filings mid-process. Look for employers who have filed LCAs in previous years, which signals they understand the timeline and have counsel ready before your start date.
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Filter Operations Leader openings by employers with confirmed H-1B filing history on Migrate Mate. This cuts time spent on roles where sponsorship is theoretical rather than an established employer practice backed by DOL LCA records.
Check the prevailing wage before negotiating
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your job title and metro area. Run the OFLC Wage Search for SOC code 11-1021 before you receive an offer so you know the wage floor and can negotiate from an informed position.
Clarify the filing timeline during offer negotiation
Operations Leader roles often require immediate authority on day one, but H-1B cap-subject petitions have an October 1 start date. Confirm whether the employer needs you before October and whether they'll file premium processing to compress the adjudication window to 15 business days.
Document cross-functional scope in your job description
USCIS scrutinizes Operations Leader petitions where the job description reads as general management rather than specialty occupation. Push your employer to specify the technical degree requirement and tie each core duty to a discipline-specific body of knowledge before the I-129 is drafted.
H-1B Visa Operations Leader: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Operations Leader role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can, but the employer must demonstrate that the specific position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as industrial engineering, supply chain management, or business administration. Generic management duties without a discipline-specific degree requirement often draw RFEs from USCIS. The job description needs to tie each core responsibility to a technical field of study, not just managerial experience.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas for Operations Leader positions?
Migrate Mate filters Operations Leader roles by employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history from DOL disclosure data. This shows which companies have sponsored the visa type before, so you're not relying on a recruiter's verbal assurance. Employers who file LCAs consistently are far more likely to have immigration counsel in place and a defined internal process for new petitions.
What is the LCA and why does it matter for Operations Leader candidates?
The Labor Condition Application is a DOL certification your employer files before submitting your H-1B petition to USCIS. It certifies the offered wage meets or exceeds the prevailing wage for your job title and work location. For Operations Leader roles, the SOC code on the LCA must accurately reflect your duties. A mismatch between the LCA job title and the I-129 petition description is a common source of requests for evidence.
Can I switch employers mid-H-1B if I'm in an Operations Leader role?
Yes, H-1B portability under AC21 lets you change employers once your petition has been pending for 180 days or more, provided the new role is in the same or a substantially similar occupational classification. For Operations Leaders, this generally means the new position must involve comparable scope, seniority, and degree requirements. Your new employer must file an H-1B transfer petition before your current authorized period ends.
How does the prevailing wage requirement apply to Operations Leader H-1B petitions?
DOL sets prevailing wages by job title, experience level, and metropolitan area. Your employer's LCA must certify the offered salary meets at least the Level I wage for your location and SOC code. Operations Leader roles in high-cost metros typically fall at Level II or III, so the actual wage floor can be significantly above the national median. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the figure for your specific city before you finalize your offer.