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Operations Associate roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field like business, supply chain, or industrial engineering. Employers across logistics, tech, and finance actively file LCAs for these roles, making sponsorship a realistic path for international candidates.
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As the Marketing Operations Senior Associate, Integration, you provide the day-to-day coordination and operational backbone across Grant Thornton's global GTM and marketing integration workstreams. This is a dedicated, time-bound role responsible for connecting plans across specialized teams, maintaining accurate work and financial information, supporting ClickUp adoption, coordinating change and logistics, and ensuring capability leads can remain focused on their areas of expertise. You directly support the transition of each global platform firm from integration into business-as-usual (BAU).
Reporting into the Marketing Operations Lead, Integration and coordinating through the Integration Management Office (IMO), the firm's central governance body for coordinating and overseeing integration execution, you work across capability leads and local firm teams. You combine strong execution discipline with the ability to understand the broader integration picture, surface cross-workstream impacts, and turn incomplete or conflicting information into clear issues, options, and next steps. You are a dynamic operator who is comfortable creating structure where it does not yet exist and adapting as priorities evolve.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Maintain the integrated plan across GTM and marketing workstreams, keeping milestones, owners, dependencies, decisions, risks, and BAU handoffs current across concurrent firm integrations.
- Configure and maintain ClickUp workspaces, templates, workflows, dashboards, and intake processes; support onboarding, training, adoption tracking, and consistent usage across global and local teams.
- Coordinate cross-workstream meetings, agendas, materials, notes, decisions, and follow-up actions, ensuring information is captured and routed to the right owners.
- Support change management activities, including stakeholder tracking, impact assessments, communications, training coordination, readiness checks, and adoption follow-up.
- Manage integration logistics such as onboarding activities, access and equipment needs, scheduling, documentation, stakeholder lists, and key integration events.
- Maintain integration financials, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, purchase orders, invoices, contractor spend, variances, and supporting documentation; flag inconsistencies and emerging risks.
- Inventory the broader technology stack used by each acquired firm, documenting tools, contracts, owners, dependencies, renewal considerations, and transition questions for review by functional and technology leads.
- Monitor progress across workstreams, identify gaps or conflicting inputs, assess potential downstream impacts, and prepare clear issue summaries with practical response options for the Marketing Operations Lead.
- Provide capability leads with coordinated information, trackers, access, follow-up, and administrative support so they can focus on specialized integration delivery.
- Apply and improve integration playbooks, templates, governance routines, decision logs, and handoff documentation to make onboarding more consistent and repeatable across firms.
- Support executive status reporting and clean transition into BAU ownership by consolidating progress, financials, risks, decisions, documentation, training, and open actions.
Other duties as assigned.
You Have the Following Technical Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, or related field
- 5-8 years of experience in business operations, marketing operations, program coordination, integration, transformation, or related roles within professional services or B2B environments
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple workstreams, maintaining integrated plans, and managing dependencies across cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving and synthesis skills, with the ability to organize incomplete information, identify implications, and frame clear issues, options, and next steps
- Experience supporting project and work management platforms, including workflow configuration, dashboards, templates, user onboarding, and adoption; ClickUp experience preferred
- Experience maintaining budgets, forecasts, purchase orders, invoices, contractor spend, or other financial and operational tracking
- Comfort learning unfamiliar technology environments and documenting systems, contracts, owners, integrations, and dependencies
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage logistics, documentation, meetings, deadlines, and follow-up across concurrent priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise status updates and decision-ready materials for varied stakeholders
- Dynamic, proactive, and comfortable navigating ambiguity, changing priorities, geographically dispersed teams, and situations where processes are still being defined; can travel as needed
The base salary range for this position is between $96,000 and $144,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.
Job Description:
As the Marketing Operations Senior Associate, Integration, you provide the day-to-day coordination and operational backbone across Grant Thornton's global GTM and marketing integration workstreams. This is a dedicated, time-bound role responsible for connecting plans across specialized teams, maintaining accurate work and financial information, supporting ClickUp adoption, coordinating change and logistics, and ensuring capability leads can remain focused on their areas of expertise. You directly support the transition of each global platform firm from integration into business-as-usual (BAU).
Reporting into the Marketing Operations Lead, Integration and coordinating through the Integration Management Office (IMO), the firm's central governance body for coordinating and overseeing integration execution, you work across capability leads and local firm teams. You combine strong execution discipline with the ability to understand the broader integration picture, surface cross-workstream impacts, and turn incomplete or conflicting information into clear issues, options, and next steps. You are a dynamic operator who is comfortable creating structure where it does not yet exist and adapting as priorities evolve.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Maintain the integrated plan across GTM and marketing workstreams, keeping milestones, owners, dependencies, decisions, risks, and BAU handoffs current across concurrent firm integrations.
- Configure and maintain ClickUp workspaces, templates, workflows, dashboards, and intake processes; support onboarding, training, adoption tracking, and consistent usage across global and local teams.
- Coordinate cross-workstream meetings, agendas, materials, notes, decisions, and follow-up actions, ensuring information is captured and routed to the right owners.
- Support change management activities, including stakeholder tracking, impact assessments, communications, training coordination, readiness checks, and adoption follow-up.
- Manage integration logistics such as onboarding activities, access and equipment needs, scheduling, documentation, stakeholder lists, and key integration events.
- Maintain integration financials, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, purchase orders, invoices, contractor spend, variances, and supporting documentation; flag inconsistencies and emerging risks.
- Inventory the broader technology stack used by each acquired firm, documenting tools, contracts, owners, dependencies, renewal considerations, and transition questions for review by functional and technology leads.
- Monitor progress across workstreams, identify gaps or conflicting inputs, assess potential downstream impacts, and prepare clear issue summaries with practical response options for the Marketing Operations Lead.
- Provide capability leads with coordinated information, trackers, access, follow-up, and administrative support so they can focus on specialized integration delivery.
- Apply and improve integration playbooks, templates, governance routines, decision logs, and handoff documentation to make onboarding more consistent and repeatable across firms.
- Support executive status reporting and clean transition into BAU ownership by consolidating progress, financials, risks, decisions, documentation, training, and open actions.
Other duties as assigned.
You Have the Following Technical Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, or related field
- 5-8 years of experience in business operations, marketing operations, program coordination, integration, transformation, or related roles within professional services or B2B environments
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple workstreams, maintaining integrated plans, and managing dependencies across cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving and synthesis skills, with the ability to organize incomplete information, identify implications, and frame clear issues, options, and next steps
- Experience supporting project and work management platforms, including workflow configuration, dashboards, templates, user onboarding, and adoption; ClickUp experience preferred
- Experience maintaining budgets, forecasts, purchase orders, invoices, contractor spend, or other financial and operational tracking
- Comfort learning unfamiliar technology environments and documenting systems, contracts, owners, integrations, and dependencies
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage logistics, documentation, meetings, deadlines, and follow-up across concurrent priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise status updates and decision-ready materials for varied stakeholders
- Dynamic, proactive, and comfortable navigating ambiguity, changing priorities, geographically dispersed teams, and situations where processes are still being defined; can travel as needed
The base salary range for this position is between $96,000 and $144,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as an Operations Associate
Frame your degree as directly related
H-1B eligibility hinges on a specialty occupation tie between your degree and the role. For Operations Associate positions, degrees in business administration, supply chain management, industrial engineering, or operations research satisfy this requirement more cleanly than general management degrees.
Search LCA filings by role title
Employers who have already filed LCAs for Operations Associate or Operations Analyst titles are your highest-probability targets. Use Migrate Mate to browse verified LCA sponsorship history by role and location before you apply.
Target companies in process-heavy industries
Logistics, e-commerce, healthcare operations, and financial services firms file LCAs for Operations Associate roles more consistently than general corporate employers. These industries run lean process-improvement cycles that justify a specialty occupation designation more easily.
Prepare a job duties narrative for the LCA
DOL's LCA certification requires the employer to document that the role meets specialty occupation standards. Build a one-page duties summary showing how your day-to-day work, such as data modeling, process optimization, or vendor management, requires your specific degree field.
Verify prevailing wage tier before negotiating
The LCA locks in a prevailing wage level that USCIS reviews. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the wage tier for your location and job title before accepting an offer, so you aren't caught off-guard if the employer must adjust your compensation to meet DOL requirements.
Time your H-1B filing around your OPT end date
If you're on OPT, your employer must file your H-1B petition before your OPT expires and cap-gap rules can extend your authorization through September 30. USCIS's cap-gap provision covers you automatically once the petition is filed, but only if your OPT is still valid at filing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Operations Associate role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the role is defined. If the position requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field like supply chain, industrial engineering, or business analytics, it qualifies. Generic titles with broad duties and no degree requirement in a particular field often draw USCIS scrutiny. The job description and employer documentation both matter here.
Which visa types realistically cover an Operations Associate role?
H-1B is the primary path for most Operations Associate candidates. If you hold a TN visa-eligible profession like industrial engineer, that may also apply. F-1 OPT and STEM OPT cover the transition period. Canadian and Mexican nationals should check whether their specific role falls on the USMCA profession list before pursuing TN visa status.
How do I find employers actively sponsoring Operations Associate roles?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified LCA sponsorship history for operations roles, searchable by city and job title. This is the most direct way to identify companies already familiar with the H-1B filing process for this role type, which significantly reduces negotiation friction during the offer stage.
Does my degree field affect my chances of getting sponsored as an Operations Associate?
Yes, directly. Degrees in supply chain management, operations research, industrial engineering, or business analytics create the clearest specialty occupation argument. A general business degree can still qualify, but the employer's job description must explicitly require that degree type for the specific role, not just list it as preferred.
Can an Operations Associate role support a green card through PERM labor certification?
Yes, if the role qualifies as a specialty occupation under EB-2 or as a skilled worker under EB-3. The employer must demonstrate through PERM that no qualified U.S. workers are available for the position. EB-3 requires at least two years of experience or training and no specific degree minimum, which fits many Operations Associate roles.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Operations Associate 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.