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Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.
At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.
As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.
Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.
THE ROLE
Join Veeva as we innovate life sciences training. As the Learning Strategy Consultant, LearnGxP, you will be responsible for supporting the sales, implementation, and strategic consulting processes around Veeva’s accredited GxP eLearning library for customers in Life Sciences. As one of the members of our LearnGxP team, you will be required to understand our customer’s training needs, matching content and training technology solutions that best address the customer’s vision.
This role is seeking a leader with an understanding of the global life sciences industry, online learning, and curriculum development space. In this role, you will lead customer success management for key LearnGxP accounts as well as provide learning strategy consultation services supporting Veeva Training Solutions implementations through best practice sharing and training matrix optimization efforts. The successful candidate will report to the Director eLearning Compliance.
This is a work-anywhere, full-time permanent role with Veeva. Our work processes are designed so that you can be productive in the environment that works best for you. This is a customer-facing role, and we have no work location requirement if you are in close proximity to an airport and able to meet future travel requirements.
- Manage customer success for a portfolio of key accounts
- Support consulting engagements in alignment with other Veeva application implementation projects leading workshops, performing data analysis, and authoring final project deliverables
- Analyze customer curricula structure, training assignment strategy, and assignment data to determine optimization efforts in line with Veeva Training LMS functionality and capabilities
- Maintain a continued level of subject matter expertise on Veeva Training Solutions functionality, capabilities, and content library in line with Veeva’s release cycle
- Provide thought leadership and direction to field-facing teams including creating and maintaining relationships with executive leadership
- Manage all training assets including version control, customer distribution, and ongoing updates
- Coordinate resources across the customer lifecycle from sales to delivery and beyond delivering projects on time
- Build relationships with customers to gather feedback and figure out what their pain points are and what existing training assets need to be improved
- Support marketing activities such as recording videos, presenting webinars, editing website content, attending conferences, and more
- Serve as an evangelist in the space by presenting at industry conferences, leading webinars, and authoring content for industry publications
- Engage with communities of practice, and manage relationships with partners
REQUIREMENTS
- Willingness to travel 20-30%, primarily in the US (when possible)
- Demonstrated experience in a GxP-regulated environment (e.g., pharma, biotech, medical devices)
- Hands-on experience with curriculum development, Learning Management System (LMS) administration, and training program strategy in a GxP environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Driven self-starter; able to work independently
- Experience communicating with and managing expectations for stakeholders at multiple levels, from project teams to leadership
- Proven experience managing or playing a key role in large-scale, cross-functional projects (e.g., new system implementation, facility startup, major process overhaul)
- Bachelor’s Degree
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience in consulting or project implementation
- Degree in instructional design or other adult learning focused areas
- Strong knowledge of GxP Quality System processes
- Experience with software solutions used by Quality Assurance and Manufacturing in the pharma/biotech and/or medical device/diagnostics sectors
- Quality Management Systems (QMS), Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) experience
- SaaS/Cloud solutions and software technology experience
PERKS & BENEFITS
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
- Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
- Retirement programs
- 1% charitable giving program
COMPENSATION
- Base pay: $95,000 - $145,000
The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.
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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at talent_accommodations@veeva.com.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
INTRODUCTION
Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.
At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.
As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.
Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.
THE ROLE
Join Veeva as we innovate life sciences training. As the Learning Strategy Consultant, LearnGxP, you will be responsible for supporting the sales, implementation, and strategic consulting processes around Veeva’s accredited GxP eLearning library for customers in Life Sciences. As one of the members of our LearnGxP team, you will be required to understand our customer’s training needs, matching content and training technology solutions that best address the customer’s vision.
This role is seeking a leader with an understanding of the global life sciences industry, online learning, and curriculum development space. In this role, you will lead customer success management for key LearnGxP accounts as well as provide learning strategy consultation services supporting Veeva Training Solutions implementations through best practice sharing and training matrix optimization efforts. The successful candidate will report to the Director eLearning Compliance.
This is a work-anywhere, full-time permanent role with Veeva. Our work processes are designed so that you can be productive in the environment that works best for you. This is a customer-facing role, and we have no work location requirement if you are in close proximity to an airport and able to meet future travel requirements.
- Manage customer success for a portfolio of key accounts
- Support consulting engagements in alignment with other Veeva application implementation projects leading workshops, performing data analysis, and authoring final project deliverables
- Analyze customer curricula structure, training assignment strategy, and assignment data to determine optimization efforts in line with Veeva Training LMS functionality and capabilities
- Maintain a continued level of subject matter expertise on Veeva Training Solutions functionality, capabilities, and content library in line with Veeva’s release cycle
- Provide thought leadership and direction to field-facing teams including creating and maintaining relationships with executive leadership
- Manage all training assets including version control, customer distribution, and ongoing updates
- Coordinate resources across the customer lifecycle from sales to delivery and beyond delivering projects on time
- Build relationships with customers to gather feedback and figure out what their pain points are and what existing training assets need to be improved
- Support marketing activities such as recording videos, presenting webinars, editing website content, attending conferences, and more
- Serve as an evangelist in the space by presenting at industry conferences, leading webinars, and authoring content for industry publications
- Engage with communities of practice, and manage relationships with partners
REQUIREMENTS
- Willingness to travel 20-30%, primarily in the US (when possible)
- Demonstrated experience in a GxP-regulated environment (e.g., pharma, biotech, medical devices)
- Hands-on experience with curriculum development, Learning Management System (LMS) administration, and training program strategy in a GxP environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Driven self-starter; able to work independently
- Experience communicating with and managing expectations for stakeholders at multiple levels, from project teams to leadership
- Proven experience managing or playing a key role in large-scale, cross-functional projects (e.g., new system implementation, facility startup, major process overhaul)
- Bachelor’s Degree
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience in consulting or project implementation
- Degree in instructional design or other adult learning focused areas
- Strong knowledge of GxP Quality System processes
- Experience with software solutions used by Quality Assurance and Manufacturing in the pharma/biotech and/or medical device/diagnostics sectors
- Quality Management Systems (QMS), Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) experience
- SaaS/Cloud solutions and software technology experience
PERKS & BENEFITS
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
- Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
- Retirement programs
- 1% charitable giving program
COMPENSATION
- Base pay: $95,000 - $145,000
The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.
LI-Remote
LI-Associate
Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at talent_accommodations@veeva.com.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Strategy Consultant
Target firms with H-1B sponsorship history
Management consulting firms at every tier regularly file H-1B petitions. Prioritizing firms with consistent sponsorship records protects your path beyond OPT and reduces the risk of losing status when your authorization window closes.
Lead with your quantified impact
Consulting hiring is highly analytical. Frame your experience around measurable outcomes: cost reductions, revenue improvements, or efficiency gains. Concrete numbers signal the structured thinking firms evaluate in case interviews and sponsorship decisions alike.
Clarify your STEM OPT eligibility early
If your degree is in a STEM-designated field like economics, statistics, or management information systems, you may qualify for a 24-month STEM OPT extension. This gives employers 36 total months, improving sponsorship feasibility significantly.
Prepare a concise OPT timeline summary
Recruiters often avoid OPT candidates due to timeline confusion. Have a clear, one-paragraph summary ready: your authorization start date, end date, STEM extension eligibility, and the H-1B cap timeline. Clarity removes a common early objection.
Emphasize functional specializations that are harder to fill
Niche expertise in areas like supply chain, healthcare strategy, or financial modeling makes sponsorship easier to justify. Firms are more willing to navigate visa processes when a candidate fills a specialized gap their domestic applicant pool cannot easily cover.
Use Migrate Mate to find OPT-friendly consulting roles
Not every strategy consulting posting is open to OPT candidates. Migrate Mate filters for roles where employers have sponsored work visas before, saving time and directing your applications toward firms already open to your situation.
Strategy Consultant OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do strategy consultant roles qualify for OPT work authorization?
Yes, strategy consultant roles qualify for OPT when the position requires a degree in a related field such as business administration, economics, finance, or management. USCIS requires that your job be directly related to your major. If your employer's job description specifies a bachelor's degree requirement in a relevant discipline, the role supports your OPT authorization.
Am I eligible for the STEM OPT extension as a strategy consultant?
It depends on your degree. If your bachelor's or master's degree is in a STEM-designated field, including economics, statistics, management information systems, or business analytics, you may qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. A general business administration or management degree may not qualify. Check the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List against your exact CIP code to confirm eligibility before accepting an offer.
Do consulting firms typically sponsor H-1B visas for strategy consultants?
Large and mid-tier consulting firms, including those focused on management, operations, and technology strategy, have historically been among the most active H-1B sponsors. Smaller boutique firms sponsor less frequently. Prioritizing firms with documented sponsorship histories gives you the strongest path from OPT to long-term work authorization. Migrate Mate highlights employers with prior sponsorship activity so you can focus your search accordingly.
What should I tell a recruiter about my OPT timeline during a consulting interview process?
Be direct and specific. Tell the recruiter your OPT authorization start date, expiration date, whether you qualify for the STEM extension, and that the H-1B cap registration typically falls in March for an October 1 start. Firms that sponsor consultants understand this cycle. Presenting the timeline clearly signals professionalism and removes ambiguity that often causes recruiters to pass on OPT candidates unnecessarily.
Can I work for a consulting firm as an independent contractor on OPT?
OPT regulations allow self-employment, but the work must still be directly related to your degree field and meet the minimum hours requirement of 20 hours per week. Independent consulting arrangements are permissible if you can document that the work qualifies. However, some STEM OPT extension rules require a formal employer relationship and a signed training plan, which complicates independent contractor arrangements during the extension period.