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Technical Sales Specialist roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when tied to a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field. Employers in software, industrial equipment, and medical devices sponsor regularly. The H-1B cap applies, so timing your job search around the April lottery window matters.
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Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
Sell Thermo Fisher’s Downstream Workflow products to biotech and biopharma accounts for process development and manufacturing.
This highly valued individual contributor will model and act in alignment with Thermo Fisher Scientific’s values! This is an incredible opportunity for someone looking to play a key role in collaborating with an outstanding team in a high-growth, innovative Life Sciences company. Interested? Join us today!
Impact:
Successful sales performance directly contributes to achieving sales revenue targets; accurate forecasting through strong customer relationships permits accurate and timely production planning.
Territory: This covers a territory that includes CA (southern California), UT, AZ, and NV. Given the primary location of the accounts, residency within southern California is required to facilitate customer engagement. No relocation assistance is provided.
Job Duties:
- Meet or exceed assigned sales goals for downstream workflow products, including POROS, CaptureSelect and GIBCO products by maintaining growth and actively searching for new business opportunities within the territory.
- Travel to customer sites for sales calls and presentations. Work closely with applications counterparts to move sales from evaluation to close.
- Introduce/seed downstream workflow products in new processes in accounts while working closely with existing accounts to identify new opportunities.
- Collaborate with customers and product management to forecast and communicate large order and shipment details.
- Maintain and improve sales skills through technical and sales training. Proactively update SalesForce and Business Plans.
- Attend tradeshows, conferences, and read trade journals to learn about company products.
- Collaborate with sales colleagues in the territory that represents Thermo’s other BioProduction products, including Gibco Cell Culture Products, Single Use Products, and PCR and Sequencing-based Analytics Products, to help grow Thermo’s overall Bioproduction business.
Qualifications
To perform this job optimally, an individual must satisfactorily perform each essential job duty. The requirements below represent the required knowledge, skills, and/or ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Education:
- Bachelor's or advanced degree (B.S, M.A, PhD. or equivalent experience) in Chemistry or related field.
- Experience within Bioproduction or chromatography workflows is preferred.
- 5 plus years sales experience in biopharmaceutical market required.
Business Insight:
Seek sales opportunities and provide innovative solutions to customer needs using effective strategies.
Other Knowledge:
- Positive technical skills are needed to discuss and support chromatography resins for biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing groups. An ability to develop and maintain positive relationships by learning the background of the accounts and key customers, interpreting customers' needs, and providing solutions. Positive analytical skills are essential to analyze territory sales data and technical information. Requires the ability to perform independently and as part of a team.
- Established sales history and relationships with the downstream process development.
- Demonstrated technical expertise across the downstream bioprocessing workflow, including chromatography resins, process liquids and production solutions, and production chemicals and services supporting biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing applications.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong customer relationships through:
- Developing a comprehensive understanding of customer accounts, manufacturing processes, and stakeholder priorities.
- Assessing and interpreting customer process and operational needs.
- Delivering tailored technical and commercial solutions across the downstream workflow.
- Strong analytical capabilities with experience evaluating:
- Territory sales performance, market dynamics, and growth opportunities.
- Technical data, manufacturing workflows, and application-specific information.
- Self-motivated professional with the ability to work effectively both independently and within cross-functional and matrixed team environments.
- Established track record of sales success and strategic relationship management within downstream bioprocessing, process development, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing organizations.
- Ability to effectively position integrated downstream solutions spanning chromatography, buffers and process liquids, production chemicals, and manufacturing support services to optimize customer process performance and scalability.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $131,150.00–$168,650.00. This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs.
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy.
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan.
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
Sell Thermo Fisher’s Downstream Workflow products to biotech and biopharma accounts for process development and manufacturing.
This highly valued individual contributor will model and act in alignment with Thermo Fisher Scientific’s values! This is an incredible opportunity for someone looking to play a key role in collaborating with an outstanding team in a high-growth, innovative Life Sciences company. Interested? Join us today!
Impact:
Successful sales performance directly contributes to achieving sales revenue targets; accurate forecasting through strong customer relationships permits accurate and timely production planning.
Territory: This covers a territory that includes CA (southern California), UT, AZ, and NV. Given the primary location of the accounts, residency within southern California is required to facilitate customer engagement. No relocation assistance is provided.
Job Duties:
- Meet or exceed assigned sales goals for downstream workflow products, including POROS, CaptureSelect and GIBCO products by maintaining growth and actively searching for new business opportunities within the territory.
- Travel to customer sites for sales calls and presentations. Work closely with applications counterparts to move sales from evaluation to close.
- Introduce/seed downstream workflow products in new processes in accounts while working closely with existing accounts to identify new opportunities.
- Collaborate with customers and product management to forecast and communicate large order and shipment details.
- Maintain and improve sales skills through technical and sales training. Proactively update SalesForce and Business Plans.
- Attend tradeshows, conferences, and read trade journals to learn about company products.
- Collaborate with sales colleagues in the territory that represents Thermo’s other BioProduction products, including Gibco Cell Culture Products, Single Use Products, and PCR and Sequencing-based Analytics Products, to help grow Thermo’s overall Bioproduction business.
Qualifications
To perform this job optimally, an individual must satisfactorily perform each essential job duty. The requirements below represent the required knowledge, skills, and/or ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Education:
- Bachelor's or advanced degree (B.S, M.A, PhD. or equivalent experience) in Chemistry or related field.
- Experience within Bioproduction or chromatography workflows is preferred.
- 5 plus years sales experience in biopharmaceutical market required.
Business Insight:
Seek sales opportunities and provide innovative solutions to customer needs using effective strategies.
Other Knowledge:
- Positive technical skills are needed to discuss and support chromatography resins for biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing groups. An ability to develop and maintain positive relationships by learning the background of the accounts and key customers, interpreting customers' needs, and providing solutions. Positive analytical skills are essential to analyze territory sales data and technical information. Requires the ability to perform independently and as part of a team.
- Established sales history and relationships with the downstream process development.
- Demonstrated technical expertise across the downstream bioprocessing workflow, including chromatography resins, process liquids and production solutions, and production chemicals and services supporting biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing applications.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong customer relationships through:
- Developing a comprehensive understanding of customer accounts, manufacturing processes, and stakeholder priorities.
- Assessing and interpreting customer process and operational needs.
- Delivering tailored technical and commercial solutions across the downstream workflow.
- Strong analytical capabilities with experience evaluating:
- Territory sales performance, market dynamics, and growth opportunities.
- Technical data, manufacturing workflows, and application-specific information.
- Self-motivated professional with the ability to work effectively both independently and within cross-functional and matrixed team environments.
- Established track record of sales success and strategic relationship management within downstream bioprocessing, process development, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing organizations.
- Ability to effectively position integrated downstream solutions spanning chromatography, buffers and process liquids, production chemicals, and manufacturing support services to optimize customer process performance and scalability.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $131,150.00–$168,650.00. This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs.
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy.
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan.
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Technical Sales Specialist
Verify your role meets specialty occupation
USCIS requires your Technical Sales Specialist position to mandate a specific bachelor's degree, not just prefer one. Pull the O*NET profile for your SOC code to confirm the degree requirement language before accepting an offer.
Target employers with active LCA filings
Use Migrate Mate to filter Technical Sales Specialist roles by verified DOL Labor Condition Application history, so you're applying to employers who've already navigated H-1B sponsorship for this job title, not ones figuring it out alongside you.
Document your technical expertise precisely
Your resume and supporting letters need to tie your sales function to a specific technical discipline. A cover letter describing you as a 'sales professional' isn't enough. Name the technology, system, or product category and your degree-level knowledge of it.
Ask about prevailing wage tier before negotiating
The DOL assigns a wage level to your LCA filing. Level I locks you into entry rates; Level II or III gives more negotiating room. Run your job title and location through the OFLC Wage Search before your compensation conversation.
Confirm the employer's E-Verify enrollment status
H-1B employers must be E-Verify participants. Ask HR directly during the offer stage. If they aren't enrolled, they can't file your petition, and you'll lose time in a lottery cycle you can't get back.
Plan around the cap-subject filing window
H-1B registration opens in March for an October 1 start date. Technical Sales roles at for-profit companies are cap-subject, so your offer letter needs to be in place before registration closes. Start targeting employers no later than January.
H-1B Visa Technical Sales Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Technical Sales Specialist role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
It depends on how the employer defines the position. If the job description requires a specific bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, chemistry, or a related technical field, it qualifies. Roles framed as general sales with a technical preference often fail USCIS review. The job posting and internal documentation both need to reflect a degree requirement, not a preference.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas most often for Technical Sales Specialists?
Software and SaaS companies, semiconductor manufacturers, industrial automation firms, medical device companies, and scientific instrumentation providers are consistent H-1B sponsors for this role. The technical complexity of the product directly affects how easy it is for an employer to justify specialty occupation status. You can browse employers with verified H-1B filing history for this role on Migrate Mate.
Can my employer file my H-1B petition while I'm on OPT?
Yes. If your OPT is valid through October 1 of the target year, your employer can register you in the March lottery and file the petition if selected. If your OPT expires before October 1, cap-gap protection extends your work authorization automatically once the petition is filed, as long as your F-1 status was valid when the petition was submitted.
What happens to my H-1B if I change roles within the same company?
A material change in job duties, location, or wage level requires an amended H-1B petition and a new LCA. Moving from a Technical Sales Specialist to an account management or business development role could require demonstrating that the new position still qualifies as a specialty occupation. Confirm with your employer's immigration counsel before accepting an internal transfer.
How does the prevailing wage requirement affect Technical Sales Specialist H-1B filings?
DOL requires your employer to pay at least the prevailing wage for your job title, level, and work location as determined by the OFLC Wage Search. Technical Sales roles in high-cost metro areas carry higher prevailing wages than the same title in smaller markets. Employers who underpay relative to the LCA wage level face DOL audit risk, which can affect your petition's approval.