Marketing Communications Manager Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Marketing Communications Managers who need visa sponsorship typically qualify under the H-1B visa as a specialty occupation requiring a bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field. Employers in tech, healthcare, and consumer goods sponsor this role regularly, and the E-3 visa is an additional option for Australian citizens. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Get Access To All JobsInnovation starts from the heart. Heart valve disease impacts millions of lives, spanning all ages and geographies. As communities globally address the opportunities and challenges of cardiovascular care, telling a compelling and authentic story is more crucial than ever. Beyond raising awareness, our Marketing teams build lasting, trusted relationships with medical professionals and industry stakeholders to ensure patients can receive the treatments they need.
Aortic stenosis impacts millions of people globally, yet it often remains under-diagnosed and under-treated. Edwards’ groundbreaking work in transcatheter aortic heart valve replacement (TAVR) pioneered an innovative, life-changing solution for patients by offering heart valve replacement without the need for open heart surgery. Our Transcatheter Heart Valve (THV) business unit continues to partner with cardiologists and clinical teams to transform patient care with devices supported by clinical evidence. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.
How you'll make an impact:
This role supports the development and execution of integrated brand and marketing initiatives that advance business-unit priorities, product launches, and market development efforts, while contributing to a modern digital influence strategy that shapes perception and drives adoption. It activates established digital opinion leader networks and helps connect digital channels, social sentiment insights, public relations, and executive visibility to strengthen brand credibility and full-funnel impact. The role also contributes to insights and performance measurement, supports cross-functional execution, manages agency partners and budgets, and helps drive scalable processes that enable efficient, high-quality marketing delivery across all touchpoints.
- Lead and execute an integrated PR strategy spanning earned media, paid, social media, digital opinion leaders, executive thought leadership, and emerging influence channels.
- Partner with Corporate Communications on earned opportunities, integrating them into the broader PR, digital, social, DOL, and paid strategy to maximize reach and impact.
- Develop proactive PR strategies and compelling narratives around business priorities, product launches, clinical data, market development initiatives, and other key milestones to strengthen visibility, credibility, and influence.
- Lead the digital influence strategy, activating established networks of HCPs, digital opinion leaders, and other influential voices to drive credible peer-to-peer engagement and amplify priority narratives and clinical evidence.
- Connect PR and digital marketing strategies to extend the impact of earned, paid, social, and influencer activity across the customer journey, ensuring high-value PR moments are strategically amplified through digital channels.
- Leverage media intelligence, social listening, search trends, and audience insights to identify emerging conversations, influential voices, reputational opportunities, and evolving audience behaviors that inform PR and digital activation.
- Drive internal communications across THV, ensuring visibility and alignment around priority PR activations, key milestones, opportunities, and outcomes.
- Lead thought leadership, including proactive media engagement, executive visibility, expert positioning and messaging development.
- Partner with product marketing and cross-functional stakeholders to translate positioning, clinical evidence, value propositions, and messaging into compelling external narratives and channel-specific communications.
- Establish integrated measurement frameworks across earned, paid, social, and influencer activity, using media, social, digital, and audience analytics to assess reach, engagement, influence, sentiment, and business impact.
- Lead cross-functional coordination with Product Marketing, Clinical, Regulatory, Legal, Corporate Communications, and other stakeholders to enable timely, compliant PR and digital activation.
- Identify emerging PR, digital media, and influence trends and translate them into new opportunities to reach and engage priority audiences.
- Build scalable processes, workflows, measurement approaches, and governance models that improve the speed, integration, and effectiveness of PR and digital execution.
What you'll need (Required):
Bachelor's Degree in related field with 10 years experience of work experience or equivalent based on Edwards criteria Required or
Master's Degree with 8 years of related experience working in sales, marketing, or healthcare industry or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
What else we look for (Preferred):
- Proven successful project management skills
- Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
- Recognized as an expert in own area with specialized depth within the organization
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of brand strategy
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of brand communication channels; print, digital and new media production
- Extensive understanding of related aspects of brand marketing concepts and principles
- Strict attention to detail
- Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
- Represents leadership on projects within a specific working closely with cross-functional team, marketing peers and leaders and managing needs and messaging to upper management
- Consult in project setting within specific marketing area
- Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control
Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.
For California (CA) the base pay range for this position is $139,000 to $196,000 (highly experienced).
The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.
Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Innovation starts from the heart. Heart valve disease impacts millions of lives, spanning all ages and geographies. As communities globally address the opportunities and challenges of cardiovascular care, telling a compelling and authentic story is more crucial than ever. Beyond raising awareness, our Marketing teams build lasting, trusted relationships with medical professionals and industry stakeholders to ensure patients can receive the treatments they need.
Aortic stenosis impacts millions of people globally, yet it often remains under-diagnosed and under-treated. Edwards’ groundbreaking work in transcatheter aortic heart valve replacement (TAVR) pioneered an innovative, life-changing solution for patients by offering heart valve replacement without the need for open heart surgery. Our Transcatheter Heart Valve (THV) business unit continues to partner with cardiologists and clinical teams to transform patient care with devices supported by clinical evidence. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.
How you'll make an impact:
This role supports the development and execution of integrated brand and marketing initiatives that advance business-unit priorities, product launches, and market development efforts, while contributing to a modern digital influence strategy that shapes perception and drives adoption. It activates established digital opinion leader networks and helps connect digital channels, social sentiment insights, public relations, and executive visibility to strengthen brand credibility and full-funnel impact. The role also contributes to insights and performance measurement, supports cross-functional execution, manages agency partners and budgets, and helps drive scalable processes that enable efficient, high-quality marketing delivery across all touchpoints.
- Lead and execute an integrated PR strategy spanning earned media, paid, social media, digital opinion leaders, executive thought leadership, and emerging influence channels.
- Partner with Corporate Communications on earned opportunities, integrating them into the broader PR, digital, social, DOL, and paid strategy to maximize reach and impact.
- Develop proactive PR strategies and compelling narratives around business priorities, product launches, clinical data, market development initiatives, and other key milestones to strengthen visibility, credibility, and influence.
- Lead the digital influence strategy, activating established networks of HCPs, digital opinion leaders, and other influential voices to drive credible peer-to-peer engagement and amplify priority narratives and clinical evidence.
- Connect PR and digital marketing strategies to extend the impact of earned, paid, social, and influencer activity across the customer journey, ensuring high-value PR moments are strategically amplified through digital channels.
- Leverage media intelligence, social listening, search trends, and audience insights to identify emerging conversations, influential voices, reputational opportunities, and evolving audience behaviors that inform PR and digital activation.
- Drive internal communications across THV, ensuring visibility and alignment around priority PR activations, key milestones, opportunities, and outcomes.
- Lead thought leadership, including proactive media engagement, executive visibility, expert positioning and messaging development.
- Partner with product marketing and cross-functional stakeholders to translate positioning, clinical evidence, value propositions, and messaging into compelling external narratives and channel-specific communications.
- Establish integrated measurement frameworks across earned, paid, social, and influencer activity, using media, social, digital, and audience analytics to assess reach, engagement, influence, sentiment, and business impact.
- Lead cross-functional coordination with Product Marketing, Clinical, Regulatory, Legal, Corporate Communications, and other stakeholders to enable timely, compliant PR and digital activation.
- Identify emerging PR, digital media, and influence trends and translate them into new opportunities to reach and engage priority audiences.
- Build scalable processes, workflows, measurement approaches, and governance models that improve the speed, integration, and effectiveness of PR and digital execution.
What you'll need (Required):
Bachelor's Degree in related field with 10 years experience of work experience or equivalent based on Edwards criteria Required or
Master's Degree with 8 years of related experience working in sales, marketing, or healthcare industry or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
What else we look for (Preferred):
- Proven successful project management skills
- Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
- Recognized as an expert in own area with specialized depth within the organization
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of brand strategy
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of brand communication channels; print, digital and new media production
- Extensive understanding of related aspects of brand marketing concepts and principles
- Strict attention to detail
- Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
- Represents leadership on projects within a specific working closely with cross-functional team, marketing peers and leaders and managing needs and messaging to upper management
- Consult in project setting within specific marketing area
- Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control
Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.
For California (CA) the base pay range for this position is $139,000 to $196,000 (highly experienced).
The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.
Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Marketing Communications Manager
Target industries with established sponsorship track records
Tech companies, pharmaceutical firms, and large consumer brands sponsor Marketing Communications Managers far more consistently than small agencies or nonprofits. Filtering by employer size and industry before applying saves time and avoids dead ends.
Align your degree field to your job title
USCIS requires a direct relationship between your degree and the role. A marketing, communications, journalism, or public relations degree maps cleanly. A general business degree may require additional documentation to satisfy the specialty occupation requirement.
Emphasize specialized expertise, not general marketing
Sponsorship approvals strengthen when your role is clearly specialized. Highlighting expertise in B2B content strategy, integrated campaigns, or product communications makes the specialty occupation case more defensible than broad marketing generalist framing.
Raise sponsorship early in the interview process
Bringing up visa needs after an offer creates friction. Mentioning it after the first interview, once interest is established, gives recruiters time to confirm eligibility with HR or legal before the process advances too far.
Australian citizens should prioritize E-3 opportunities
The E-3 visa has no lottery, processes in days at Australian consulates, and renews indefinitely. For Australian marketing professionals, it removes the biggest barrier to U.S. employment and makes sponsorship far simpler for employers to agree to.
Browse Migrate Mate for pre-vetted sponsoring employers
Migrate Mate lists Marketing Communications Manager roles specifically from employers open to visa sponsorship, removing the guesswork of cold applications. Filtering by role and visa type surfaces the employers most likely to move forward.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Marketing Communications Manager role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, Marketing Communications Manager is generally considered a specialty occupation under H-1B visa standards, provided the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field like marketing, communications, or public relations. Roles requiring a generic degree in any field can face USCIS scrutiny, so the job description language matters. Employers with in-house immigration counsel are better positioned to build a strong petition.
Which degree fields support a Marketing Communications Manager H-1B petition?
Marketing, communications, journalism, public relations, and advertising are the strongest degree matches. A general business administration degree can work if the role's responsibilities are narrowly defined around communications functions. Unrelated degrees, such as engineering or biology, create a significantly harder sponsorship case and may require additional supporting documentation from the employer's immigration attorney.
How can I find Marketing Communications Manager jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists open roles specifically from employers willing to sponsor, so you're not spending time applying to companies that will decline at the offer stage. Large technology companies, global consumer brands, and healthcare organizations are among the most consistent sponsors for this role. Filtering by industry helps narrow to employers with active sponsorship programs.
Are Australian citizens in a better position to get sponsorship for this role?
Yes, significantly. Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa, which has a 10,500 annual cap that has never been exhausted, no lottery, and can be approved at an Australian consulate within days of an employer filing a Labor Condition Application. This removes the H-1B lottery uncertainty entirely, making Australian marketing professionals easier and faster for U.S. employers to hire than most other international candidates.
Can a Marketing Communications Manager role be denied for sponsorship even with a relevant degree?
Yes. USCIS can issue a Request for Evidence if the job description suggests the role could be filled by someone without a degree in a specific field, or if duties seem too generalized. Roles framed as covering social media, email, events, and general content simultaneously are more vulnerable than roles with a defined communications specialty. Employer legal teams often tighten job descriptions before filing to reduce this risk.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Marketing Communications Manager 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.