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Executive search roles in the U.S. typically qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in business, human resources, or a related field. Firms at the senior level routinely sponsor experienced candidates, and the E-3 visa is an efficient path for Australian nationals. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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INTRODUCTION
Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.
Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.
Executive Search Program Coordinator (Contract Hourly) - Hybrid
Reporting to the Director of Global Executive Search, the Executive Search Program Coordinator plays a critical role in delivering a world-class executive hiring experience. This individual serves as a trusted partner to the Executive Search team, senior leaders, executive assistants, candidates, and external search partners to ensure seamless execution of executive recruiting activities.
As the primary point of contact throughout the search process, you will represent Micron's Executive Search function and provide a high-touch, white-glove experience to executive-level candidates. You will manage complex interview logistics, coordinate onboarding activities, support executive search operations, and drive strategic projects that enhance talent acquisition capabilities, processes, and candidate experience.
This role offers an opportunity to contribute beyond coordination by supporting talent mapping, market intelligence, executive talent pipelines, AI-enabled recruiting initiatives, and process optimization projects that strengthen Micron's executive hiring strategy and future leadership pipeline.
Key Responsibilities
Executive Search Coordination & Candidate Experience
- Coordinate and manage all aspects of the executive recruiting lifecycle, including candidate scheduling, interview coordination, offer support, and onboarding activities.
- Deliver an exceptional, white-glove candidate experience while maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality, professionalism, and responsiveness throughout the search process.
- Serve as the primary liaison between executive candidates, hiring leaders, executive assistants, recruiters, and external search firms.
- Ensure timely communication, follow-up, and execution of critical search-related activities to keep searches progressing efficiently.
- Anticipate scheduling conflicts and proactively resolve complex logistical challenges involving multiple executives and stakeholders across global time zones.
- Support executive candidate travel, interview preparation, and onboarding activities to ensure a seamless experience from initial engagement through hire.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Partner closely with Executive Leadership teams, Executive Assistants, Human Resources, and external search firms to facilitate successful search execution.
- Manage relationships with external vendors and executive search partners, ensuring a high standard of service delivery, responsiveness, and professionalism.
- Maintain alignment among stakeholders and provide regular search progress updates throughout the recruiting process.
- Build strong relationships across the organization to ensure efficient coordination and positive experiences for candidates and hiring teams.
Operations & Process Excellence
- Maintain executive search dashboards, candidate trackers, reporting tools, and recruiting systems, including Workday and LinkedIn Recruiter.
- Ensure accuracy, integrity, and confidentiality of candidate, search, and reporting data.
- Develop and maintain process documentation, best practices, search reports, presentations, and executive recruiting resources.
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the overall executive recruiting experience.
- Support executive search reporting, metrics, and analytics to drive informed decision-making and operational excellence.
Strategic Projects, Talent Intelligence & Market Insights
- Support executive talent mapping, talent pool development, benchmarking initiatives, and market intelligence research.
- Assist in creating executive talent market maps, succession-focused talent pipelines, and competitive intelligence reports.
- Contribute to strategic projects focused on candidate experience, employer brand, executive recruiting capabilities, and process innovation.
- Assist with analytics, reporting, and insights that inform executive talent acquisition strategies, workforce planning, and succession planning efforts.
AI & Recruiting Innovation
- Leverage AI-powered recruiting and productivity tools to improve search execution, candidate experience, research, reporting, and operational efficiency.
- Support the development and adoption of AI-enabled workflows for executive talent mapping, market intelligence, candidate engagement, benchmarking, and search project management.
- Partner with the Executive Search team to identify opportunities to automate administrative tasks, streamline processes, and enhance reporting through AI and digital solutions.
- Utilize AI tools to synthesize market insights, develop executive and company profiles, create presentations, and support executive search analytics.
- Act as a champion for innovation by helping the Executive Search team leverage emerging technologies to enhance talent identification, research, workflow automation, and candidate engagement.
- Maintain awareness of emerging recruiting technologies, AI capabilities, talent intelligence platforms, and industry best practices to continuously advance the effectiveness of the Executive Search function.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
- 2+ years of experience in recruiting coordination, executive search coordination, talent acquisition, human resources, or a related field.
- Prior experience supporting executive-level recruiting and interview scheduling strongly preferred.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Experience using Workday ATS and LinkedIn Recruiter preferred.
- Experience utilizing AI-enabled productivity, research, or recruiting tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, generative AI platforms, talent intelligence tools, or workflow automation solutions) preferred.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and other collaboration tools.
- Strong project management, organizational, and operational execution skills.
Preferred Skills & Competencies
Communication & Relationship Building
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact confidently with senior executives, candidates, and business leaders.
- Ability to establish credibility, trust, and strong working relationships across all organizational levels.
- Professional presence with a customer-service mindset and commitment to delivering an outstanding experience.
Organization & Execution
- Excellent planning, prioritization, and time-management skills.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities with accuracy, quality, and urgency.
- Proven ability to anticipate needs, solve problems proactively, and execute with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high degree of professionalism and discretion.
Business Acumen, Technology & Continuous Improvement
- Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
- Process-oriented mindset with a passion for operational excellence and continuous improvement.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion when handling highly sensitive and confidential information.
- Curiosity and initiative to learn new skills, improve processes, and contribute beyond day-to-day responsibilities.
- Strong interest in leveraging technology, automation, and artificial intelligence to improve workflows, generate insights, and enhance stakeholder and candidate experiences.
- Comfort utilizing data, analytics, and AI-generated insights to support decision-making, research, and executive recruiting initiatives.
- Ability to quickly learn and apply emerging technologies in a dynamic and evolving business environment.
Why Join Micron?
At Micron, you will have the opportunity to support some of the company's most critical leadership hires while partnering with executives across the globe. As a member of the Executive Search team, you will help shape the future leadership of a world-class technology organization while gaining exposure to executive talent strategy, market intelligence, succession planning, talent intelligence, AI-enabled recruiting, and enterprise-wide talent initiatives.
This role is ideal for a highly organized, relationship-focused professional who is passionate about executive recruiting, operational excellence, innovation, and leveraging technology to elevate the candidate and stakeholder experience.
The US base salary range that Micron Technology estimates it could pay for this full-time position is:
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Additional compensation may include benefits, bonuses and equity.
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As a world leader in the semiconductor industry, Micron is dedicated to your personal wellbeing and professional growth. Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future. We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget. Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave. Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays. For additional information regarding the Benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on micron.com/careers/benefits.
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Target retained search firms first
Retained executive search firms, not contingency recruiters, are far more likely to sponsor visas. They operate on longer engagements, justify the investment in sponsorship costs, and treat senior consultants as long-term assets rather than variable headcount.
Position your degree field carefully
H-1B approval for executive search hinges on demonstrating the role requires a specific degree, not just any bachelor's. Frame your background in industrial-organizational psychology, HR management, or organizational behavior to strengthen the specialty occupation argument.
Leverage your bilingual or regional network
Executive search firms with practices in APAC, EMEA, or Latin America actively recruit foreign nationals for language skills and regional expertise. A cross-border network is a genuine business justification that makes sponsorship easier for the employer to defend.
Understand the LCA prevailing wage before negotiating
Your employer must file a Labor Condition Application certifying your salary meets the prevailing wage for your metro area. Understanding the wage tier for your location helps you negotiate from an informed position without triggering a compliance problem for the firm.
Australian nationals should ask about the E-3
The E-3 visa is exclusive to Australian citizens and has no lottery, no annual cap backlog, and allows two-year renewable terms. For executive search roles, the consular process typically takes two to six weeks, far faster than H-1B cap timelines.
Time your job search around H-1B cap season
H-1B cap registrations open in March each year for an October 1 start date. If you're targeting cap-subject employers, begin your job search in January or February so you have an offer in place before the registration window closes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does executive search qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, but the petition needs to be structured carefully. USCIS requires the role to demand a bachelor's degree in a specific field, not just any degree. Firms typically support the petition with a job description emphasizing competencies tied to organizational psychology, HR strategy, or business administration. Generalist language like 'bachelor's preferred' weakens the case significantly, so the offer letter and LCA should specify the required field explicitly.
Which visa types do executive search firms most commonly sponsor?
H-1B visa is the most common path for non-Australian nationals. Australian citizens are increasingly using the E-3 visa, which skips the lottery entirely and can be processed at a U.S. consulate in two to six weeks. A small number of firms also sponsor O-1A visas for candidates with documented industry recognition, such as major placements, published research on talent markets, or board-level advisory roles.
How can I find executive search firms that sponsor visas?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to find executive search roles at firms that have an active history of visa sponsorship. Searching broadly and cold-applying to firms with no sponsorship track record is inefficient at the senior level. Firms that regularly sponsor tend to have in-house immigration counsel or established relationships with outside firms, which signals they treat sponsorship as a standard HR process rather than a one-off exception.
Do I need an MBA to get H-1B sponsorship in executive search?
An MBA is not required, but it strengthens the specialty occupation argument considerably. USCIS scrutinizes executive search petitions more than technical roles because the degree requirement isn't industry-standard across all firms. A bachelor's in HR, psychology, or business from an accredited university is generally sufficient, provided the job description is written to require that specific field. Three years of equivalent professional experience can substitute for one year of formal education if your degree field doesn't align cleanly.
What happens to my visa status if I change firms mid-sponsorship?
If you're on an H-1B, you can port to a new employer once the new firm files an H-1B transfer petition with USCIS, you don't need to restart from the lottery if you've already been counted. AC21 portability applies after your I-140 has been approved for 180 days. On an E-3, you need a new LCA and visa stamp from the new employer before you can begin work, which typically means a consular appointment in Australia.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Executive Search jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.