Growth Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Growth roles, covering areas like growth marketing, growth engineering, and growth product management, can qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when they require a bachelor's degree in a related field. Tech companies and high-growth startups are the most common sponsors, especially in growth engineering or growth PM positions. Pure growth marketing roles can be trickier since USCIS sometimes questions whether marketing meets the specialty occupation standard. Having a quantitative or technical angle to your growth role strengthens the visa case significantly. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Sr Manager Growth AI Transformation
Location: Chicago, IL (must be based in, or relocate to, Chicago)
About the Role: This is a newly created senior role at the heart of a large-scale AI transformation agenda within our client's snacking product line. The Sr Manager, Growth AI Transformation will work directly with the Global Head AI Transformation to identify, develop, and scale AI-powered initiatives across the Global Growth function and across regional and local markets worldwide. This is a business role, not a technology role. The ideal candidate is a commercially grounded CPG professional who understands how brands grow through marketing, sales, and consumer insights, and who has used data and AI to accelerate that growth. You will bring enough technical fluency to work credibly alongside engineers, data architects, and platform partners, but you will not build models, write code, or design technical architecture; our technical teams and partners do that. You will be the connective tissue between business ambition and technical execution, orchestrating a broad portfolio of initiatives, managing external partners, and ensuring that what gets built actually lands and creates impact.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. AI Opportunity Scanning & Industry Intelligence
- Continuously monitor the external AI landscape: tools, platforms, competitor moves, and partner capabilities, to identify where AI can create the most value for our brands and for our Marketing, Sales, and Human Insights teams.
- Translate external signals into opportunity briefs that shape the portfolio roadmap and inform leadership decisions.
- Maintain a point of view on where the industry is heading, ensuring the team's pipeline stays ahead of the curve rather than catching up to it.
2. Portfolio Orchestration & Prioritization
- Grow and manage a mixed portfolio of AI initiatives, including flagship engines and smaller rapid experiments, ensuring appropriate rigor at each stage of development.
- Inform strategic direction of initiatives to support AI transformation and building of new capabilities; identify and manage interdependencies with enterprise-wide AI plays (e.g. Gemini Enterprise, ODAI, Tech-fueled sales); identify AI risks and implement guardrails; orchestrate across workstreams to drive efficiencies; and ensure a seamless end-to-end user experience across initiatives.
- Identify and facilitate escalations and decision-points to and from cross-functional implementation teams and leadership to ensure that timely, informed, evidence-based prioritization decisions are made across competing demands and transformed into tangible next steps.
3. Business Case Development & Stakeholder Alignment
- Lead the structuring and articulation of business cases for new AI initiatives, working in close partnership with Digital, ODDA, Finance & Analytics, and other functions to source funding, to model and measure ROI.
- Own the narrative, translating technical possibilities and data inputs into compelling proposals that secure senior approval and budget.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the Global Growth function and in regional markets, and lead discussions in key leadership forums.
4. Agile Delivery Oversight & External Partner Management
- Act as the strategic manager across rapid/agile delivery teams and external partners (e.g. Writer, Google, Fractal, Publicis).
- Define ways of working, set clear deliverables and accountability structures, and ensure development stays aligned to intended business outcomes.
- Apply sufficient technical fluency to challenge, unblock, and redirect technical and partner teams where needed, without replacing the engineers and data scientists.
5. Scaling, Governance & Change Enablement
- Own the path from pilot to scale for validated initiatives, navigating the varying governance and compliance processes across regions.
- Coordinate deployment prioritization across initiatives and inform the development of training and communication materials in partnership with Capability Building teams.
- Drive adoption by ensuring that what gets built is understood, embraced, and actually used by the teams it's designed for by aligning to growth objectives and through continuous user feedback loops.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- CPG / FMCG background required, ideally in snacking, confectionery, or food & beverage, with hands-on experience in a commercial function (Marketing, Brand, Sales, Revenue Growth Management, or Consumer Insights) or in strategy consulting to those functions.
- 8+ years of experience in commercial strategy, product strategy, or digital/AI transformation roles within complex organizations, including leading data or AI-enabled products that serve commercial teams.
- Demonstrated experience growing a portfolio of advanced analytical products from ideation through to scaling, demonstrating strong ROI delivery.
- Strong business case authorship, the ability to build the 'why this, why now, why us' narrative for senior audiences.
- Demonstrated experience writing contracts, managing and holding accountable external agencies or technology partners.
- Demonstrated experience building cutting-edge advanced analytical capabilities and managing cross-functional teams through a complex organization.
- Technical fluency sufficient to engage credibly with data scientists, architects, engineers, responsible AI board and AI platform teams. This is not a hands-on engineering, AI architecture, or software development role.
- Comfort operating in a broad, fast-moving portfolio, able to switch between strategic thinking and hands-on delivery.
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills across cultures and seniority levels.
KEY ASSUMPTIONS
- Assumes dedicated support from Finance and Data & Analytics for quantitative modelling within business cases.
- Assumes dedicated support from the Data Office for data governance (this role bridges data stewardship within the business; it does not lead).
- Assumes access to project management resource (internal or partner) for delivery coordination on larger initiatives.
- Assumes Digital Technologies and Data Architecture own technical design and infrastructure decisions; this role bridges, not replaces, that expertise.
- Assumes Brand, Human Insights, and Growth Capabilities associates are embedded into initiative teams as subject-matter contributors.
- Assumes external partners are already contracted or in a procurement pipeline; this role manages the work, not the commercial relationship.
INTRODUCTION
Sr Manager Growth AI Transformation
Location: Chicago, IL (must be based in, or relocate to, Chicago)
About the Role: This is a newly created senior role at the heart of a large-scale AI transformation agenda within our client's snacking product line. The Sr Manager, Growth AI Transformation will work directly with the Global Head AI Transformation to identify, develop, and scale AI-powered initiatives across the Global Growth function and across regional and local markets worldwide. This is a business role, not a technology role. The ideal candidate is a commercially grounded CPG professional who understands how brands grow through marketing, sales, and consumer insights, and who has used data and AI to accelerate that growth. You will bring enough technical fluency to work credibly alongside engineers, data architects, and platform partners, but you will not build models, write code, or design technical architecture; our technical teams and partners do that. You will be the connective tissue between business ambition and technical execution, orchestrating a broad portfolio of initiatives, managing external partners, and ensuring that what gets built actually lands and creates impact.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. AI Opportunity Scanning & Industry Intelligence
- Continuously monitor the external AI landscape: tools, platforms, competitor moves, and partner capabilities, to identify where AI can create the most value for our brands and for our Marketing, Sales, and Human Insights teams.
- Translate external signals into opportunity briefs that shape the portfolio roadmap and inform leadership decisions.
- Maintain a point of view on where the industry is heading, ensuring the team's pipeline stays ahead of the curve rather than catching up to it.
2. Portfolio Orchestration & Prioritization
- Grow and manage a mixed portfolio of AI initiatives, including flagship engines and smaller rapid experiments, ensuring appropriate rigor at each stage of development.
- Inform strategic direction of initiatives to support AI transformation and building of new capabilities; identify and manage interdependencies with enterprise-wide AI plays (e.g. Gemini Enterprise, ODAI, Tech-fueled sales); identify AI risks and implement guardrails; orchestrate across workstreams to drive efficiencies; and ensure a seamless end-to-end user experience across initiatives.
- Identify and facilitate escalations and decision-points to and from cross-functional implementation teams and leadership to ensure that timely, informed, evidence-based prioritization decisions are made across competing demands and transformed into tangible next steps.
3. Business Case Development & Stakeholder Alignment
- Lead the structuring and articulation of business cases for new AI initiatives, working in close partnership with Digital, ODDA, Finance & Analytics, and other functions to source funding, to model and measure ROI.
- Own the narrative, translating technical possibilities and data inputs into compelling proposals that secure senior approval and budget.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the Global Growth function and in regional markets, and lead discussions in key leadership forums.
4. Agile Delivery Oversight & External Partner Management
- Act as the strategic manager across rapid/agile delivery teams and external partners (e.g. Writer, Google, Fractal, Publicis).
- Define ways of working, set clear deliverables and accountability structures, and ensure development stays aligned to intended business outcomes.
- Apply sufficient technical fluency to challenge, unblock, and redirect technical and partner teams where needed, without replacing the engineers and data scientists.
5. Scaling, Governance & Change Enablement
- Own the path from pilot to scale for validated initiatives, navigating the varying governance and compliance processes across regions.
- Coordinate deployment prioritization across initiatives and inform the development of training and communication materials in partnership with Capability Building teams.
- Drive adoption by ensuring that what gets built is understood, embraced, and actually used by the teams it's designed for by aligning to growth objectives and through continuous user feedback loops.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- CPG / FMCG background required, ideally in snacking, confectionery, or food & beverage, with hands-on experience in a commercial function (Marketing, Brand, Sales, Revenue Growth Management, or Consumer Insights) or in strategy consulting to those functions.
- 8+ years of experience in commercial strategy, product strategy, or digital/AI transformation roles within complex organizations, including leading data or AI-enabled products that serve commercial teams.
- Demonstrated experience growing a portfolio of advanced analytical products from ideation through to scaling, demonstrating strong ROI delivery.
- Strong business case authorship, the ability to build the 'why this, why now, why us' narrative for senior audiences.
- Demonstrated experience writing contracts, managing and holding accountable external agencies or technology partners.
- Demonstrated experience building cutting-edge advanced analytical capabilities and managing cross-functional teams through a complex organization.
- Technical fluency sufficient to engage credibly with data scientists, architects, engineers, responsible AI board and AI platform teams. This is not a hands-on engineering, AI architecture, or software development role.
- Comfort operating in a broad, fast-moving portfolio, able to switch between strategic thinking and hands-on delivery.
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills across cultures and seniority levels.
KEY ASSUMPTIONS
- Assumes dedicated support from Finance and Data & Analytics for quantitative modelling within business cases.
- Assumes dedicated support from the Data Office for data governance (this role bridges data stewardship within the business; it does not lead).
- Assumes access to project management resource (internal or partner) for delivery coordination on larger initiatives.
- Assumes Digital Technologies and Data Architecture own technical design and infrastructure decisions; this role bridges, not replaces, that expertise.
- Assumes Brand, Human Insights, and Growth Capabilities associates are embedded into initiative teams as subject-matter contributors.
- Assumes external partners are already contracted or in a procurement pipeline; this role manages the work, not the commercial relationship.
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Combine marketing and engineering skills to stand out
Growth professionals who can both design experiments and write code to implement them are rare and valuable. Proficiency in SQL, Python, and A/B testing platforms alongside marketing strategy creates a profile that is difficult to fill domestically, strengthening the case for sponsorship.
Target Series B through pre-IPO startups with dedicated growth teams
Companies at this stage have product-market fit and are investing heavily in scaling user acquisition. Startups like Notion, Figma, and Canva built dedicated growth teams during this phase and sponsored international growth professionals to staff them.
Build a portfolio of growth experiments with measurable results
Document specific experiments you designed and ran - including hypothesis, methodology, sample size, and lift achieved. Growth hiring is highly metrics-driven, and concrete evidence of experiments that moved key metrics is more persuasive than listing tools on a resume.
Pursue growth engineering roles for stronger visa positioning
Growth engineer positions that require writing production code, building experimentation frameworks, and integrating data pipelines present a clearer specialty occupation case than marketing-only growth roles. These roles also typically align with STEM degree classifications for OPT purposes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a growth role and do these positions sponsor visas?
Growth roles focus on data-driven user acquisition, activation, and retention, typically using a mix of engineering, product, and marketing skills. Startups and technology companies like Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe have dedicated growth teams and sponsor H-1B visas for qualified growth professionals.
Do growth roles qualify for STEM OPT?
If your degree is in computer science, data science, statistics, or an engineering field, a growth role that involves experimentation, data analysis, or engineering work may qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Growth engineering roles are particularly likely to fall under STEM categories.
What skills do employers look for in growth hires they are willing to sponsor?
Employers expect proficiency in A/B testing frameworks, SQL, Python or R for data analysis, and performance marketing platforms like Google Ads or Meta Ads. Growth candidates who can run experiments, analyze funnel data, and build automated acquisition systems bring the technical depth that justifies sponsorship.
Is growth marketing different from growth engineering for visa purposes?
Growth marketing emphasizes paid acquisition, lifecycle marketing, and channel optimization, while growth engineering involves building experimentation infrastructure and product features that drive growth metrics. Growth engineering roles typically have a stronger STEM classification and may be easier to position as specialty occupations.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Growth jobs?
When a U.S. employer sponsors a foreign worker for a work visa, they are legally required to pay at least the "prevailing wage" — the average wage paid to workers in the same occupation, in the same geographic area, with similar experience. This is set by the Department of Labor to prevent employers from hiring foreign workers at below-market rates. The prevailing wage varies significantly by role, location, and experience level — for example, a growth in California will have a different prevailing wage than the same role in a smaller state. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search.
How to find Growth jobs with visa sponsorship?
To find Growth jobs with visa sponsorship, use Migrate Mate, which specializes in connecting international candidates with sponsoring employers. Growth roles are commonly available at tech startups, SaaS companies, and digital marketing agencies that frequently sponsor H-1B, L-1 visa, and O-1 visas. These companies often need growth marketers, growth analysts, and growth product managers to scale their operations internationally.