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Web Designer roles qualify for OPT work authorization when the position requires a degree in graphic design, web design, UX/UI, or a related field. Most roles at agencies, tech companies, and in-house creative teams fall within the specialty occupation standard USCIS applies to OPT students.
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Job Number #175389 - Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!
Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
At Hill’s we have a purpose to transform the lives of millions of pet families through pioneering innovation, science-led nutrition, and the best and brightest people. If you’re interested in work that matters, fueled by passion for pets, we invite you to apply.
Founded more than 75 years ago with an unwavering commitment to pet nutrition, Hill’s mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets. Our decades of science and research guide us in creating nutrition that’s a step ahead so pets and pet parents can enjoy every day together. As the US #1 Veterinarian recommended pet food brand, knowledge is our first ingredient with 220+ veterinarians, PhD nutritionists and food scientists working to develop breakthrough innovations in pet health.
As the Web Merchandiser at Hill’s Pet Nutrition, you will own the end-to-end execution and optimization of our digital shopping experience. Your core mission is to create a seamless, high-converting digital ecosystem by driving findability, frictionless engagement, and customer loyalty across our digital channels.
In this role, you will bridge the gap between user behavior and business growth—combining data-driven insights with strategic execution to optimize site taxonomy, cross-sell/upsell opportunities, and dynamic customer journeys.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ecosystem Optimization: Manage site taxonomy, click-flow navigation, attribution, and on-site traffic to maximize findability and conversion.
- Testing & Personalization: Plan and execute A/B testing and cross-sell/upsell strategies to elevate customer lifetime value and brand loyalty.
- Data & Performance Tracking: Monitor, analyze, and report on quantitative and qualitative web behavior to uncover actionable insights.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams to bring high-impact digital campaigns to life on schedule.
- Product Information Management:
- Ongoing optimization, monitoring and refinement of our product data for our owned web properties, working without our PIM/DAM system.
- Site Merchandising Tactics:
- Continuous execution to support various campaign objectives, overall health and accuracy of site content, and collision testing for broken site experiences across our consumer properties.
- Site usability enhancements to increase conversion and improve the overall customer journey experience.
- Strategic Development:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine how to continuously optimize digital engagement experiences through utilization of UX and CX design principles.
- Own our experimentation and personalization roadmap by designing data-driven A/B testing strategies, executing campaigns, and training cross-functional partners on best practices.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree
- Data-Driven Mindset: 3+ years translating web analytics into clear, strategic growth initiatives.
- Technical & Platform Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Google Analytics, CMS, PIM, and DAM platforms.
- Experience with Google Analytics, CMS, PIM, and DAM platforms.
- Extract insights from large datasets and generate accurate reports for making effective business decisions.
Preferred Requirements:
- Frontend Familiarity: Solid understanding of UX/CX best practices alongside working knowledge of basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Fostering Experimentation - Remaining curious
- Teamwork/ Collaboration - required or dependent on other functions to align on tests and collaborate with other team members
- Analysis/ Decision Making - gaining insights from the data that is pulled.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary Range: $96,000.00 - $137,000.00 USD
Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles.
Benefits: Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employee's hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.
Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation.
For additional Colgate terms and conditions, please click here.
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Job Number #175389 - Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!
Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
At Hill’s we have a purpose to transform the lives of millions of pet families through pioneering innovation, science-led nutrition, and the best and brightest people. If you’re interested in work that matters, fueled by passion for pets, we invite you to apply.
Founded more than 75 years ago with an unwavering commitment to pet nutrition, Hill’s mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets. Our decades of science and research guide us in creating nutrition that’s a step ahead so pets and pet parents can enjoy every day together. As the US #1 Veterinarian recommended pet food brand, knowledge is our first ingredient with 220+ veterinarians, PhD nutritionists and food scientists working to develop breakthrough innovations in pet health.
As the Web Merchandiser at Hill’s Pet Nutrition, you will own the end-to-end execution and optimization of our digital shopping experience. Your core mission is to create a seamless, high-converting digital ecosystem by driving findability, frictionless engagement, and customer loyalty across our digital channels.
In this role, you will bridge the gap between user behavior and business growth—combining data-driven insights with strategic execution to optimize site taxonomy, cross-sell/upsell opportunities, and dynamic customer journeys.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ecosystem Optimization: Manage site taxonomy, click-flow navigation, attribution, and on-site traffic to maximize findability and conversion.
- Testing & Personalization: Plan and execute A/B testing and cross-sell/upsell strategies to elevate customer lifetime value and brand loyalty.
- Data & Performance Tracking: Monitor, analyze, and report on quantitative and qualitative web behavior to uncover actionable insights.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams to bring high-impact digital campaigns to life on schedule.
- Product Information Management:
- Ongoing optimization, monitoring and refinement of our product data for our owned web properties, working without our PIM/DAM system.
- Site Merchandising Tactics:
- Continuous execution to support various campaign objectives, overall health and accuracy of site content, and collision testing for broken site experiences across our consumer properties.
- Site usability enhancements to increase conversion and improve the overall customer journey experience.
- Strategic Development:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine how to continuously optimize digital engagement experiences through utilization of UX and CX design principles.
- Own our experimentation and personalization roadmap by designing data-driven A/B testing strategies, executing campaigns, and training cross-functional partners on best practices.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree
- Data-Driven Mindset: 3+ years translating web analytics into clear, strategic growth initiatives.
- Technical & Platform Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Google Analytics, CMS, PIM, and DAM platforms.
- Experience with Google Analytics, CMS, PIM, and DAM platforms.
- Extract insights from large datasets and generate accurate reports for making effective business decisions.
Preferred Requirements:
- Frontend Familiarity: Solid understanding of UX/CX best practices alongside working knowledge of basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Fostering Experimentation - Remaining curious
- Teamwork/ Collaboration - required or dependent on other functions to align on tests and collaborate with other team members
- Analysis/ Decision Making - gaining insights from the data that is pulled.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary Range: $96,000.00 - $137,000.00 USD
Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles.
Benefits: Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employee's hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.
Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation.
For additional Colgate terms and conditions, please click here.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Web Designer
Lead with your portfolio, not your resume
Web Designer roles are portfolio-first. Before applying, ensure your portfolio site is live, loads fast, and shows three to five projects with clear before-and-after context. Hiring managers decide in seconds whether to read your resume.
Target companies with established design teams
Startups with no design infrastructure often lack the HR process to navigate OPT. Companies with five or more designers already on staff are far more likely to have sponsored international candidates before and will handle your authorization smoothly.
Clarify your OPT timeline upfront in applications
Include your OPT end date and STEM extension eligibility in your cover letter. Employers who understand you have 12 to 36 months of authorized work remaining are far less likely to self-select out before even reviewing your portfolio.
Specialize in a high-demand design discipline
Generalist Web Designers face more competition than specialists. Focus on UX research, design systems, or accessibility-compliant design. A clear specialization strengthens your specialty occupation case and makes you easier for recruiters to place confidently.
Get comfortable with the handoff tools employers care about
Proficiency in Figma, Webflow, or similar tools signals you can work inside existing engineering workflows. Employers sponsoring OPT students want minimal onboarding friction, and tool fluency is one of the fastest ways to demonstrate that readiness.
Ask about H-1B sponsorship before accepting an offer
OPT is temporary. Before signing, ask directly whether the company has sponsored H-1B visas for designers in the past. A company with no history of sponsorship may leave you without a path to continued authorization when OPT expires.
Web Designer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Web Designer role qualify as a specialty occupation for OPT?
Yes, Web Designer roles typically qualify when the position requires a bachelor's degree in graphic design, web design, interaction design, or a closely related field. The key is that the job description must tie the role to a specific degree field, not just any bachelor's degree. Roles where any major is accepted are harder to support as specialty occupations.
Can I work as a freelance Web Designer on OPT?
Yes, self-employment and freelancing are permitted on OPT, but with conditions. You must be working in a field directly related to your degree, and the work must be consistent with full-time employment standards during the authorized OPT period. You cannot simply list yourself as self-employed without active client work. Document all projects and income carefully for your records.
Where can I find Web Designer jobs that are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and filters Web Designer roles by sponsorship openness, so you are not wasting applications on employers who will not consider candidates needing work authorization. Browsing on Migrate Mate saves significant time compared to sifting through general job boards where OPT compatibility is rarely disclosed upfront.
Does my design degree from a foreign university qualify me for OPT in a Web Designer role?
It can, but the degree must be from a U.S. accredited institution for OPT purposes since OPT is tied to your U.S. F-1 student status, not your foreign credential. If you completed your degree abroad and then enrolled in a U.S. program, OPT eligibility is based on your U.S. degree. Foreign credentials may support an employer's specialty occupation assessment separately during H-1B petitions.
What happens if my Web Designer role shifts to a different function during OPT?
OPT requires that your employment remain directly related to your degree field. If your role evolves significantly, for example moving from design into project management or marketing without design responsibilities, that could put your OPT authorization at risk. Report any major job changes to your Designated School Official promptly and confirm the new duties still align with your degree field before continuing.