[Hiring] Manager, Immigration @RTX

Role Description

Oversee and establish immigration strategy, processes, protocols, and policies to ensure compliance for business travelers, international assignments, and local hires for a specific geographic region.

• Manage and resolve complex immigration escalations.
• Drive continuous process improvement with the immigration provider to streamline service delivery in region.
• Provide project-based immigration support to business stakeholders to ensure transparency, efficiency, and optimized processes.
• Develop and deliver training and education to employees, managers, HR, and stakeholders on immigration requirements and expectations.
• Oversee guidance and resources for regional work authorization strategy, sponsorship pathways, and compliance standards.
• Maintain detailed regional guidelines for work authorization pathways, sponsorship eligibility, and processing timelines.
• Partner cross-functionally with Talent Acquisition, Operations, Payroll, Tax, Global Security, Legal, and local HR to establish and refine compliant immigration deployment pathways.
• Support global expansion by building immigration readiness plans for new offices, new country entries, and emerging business programs.
• Develop immigration process flows, operational documentation, and compliance requirements to support international talent across new entities.
• Support regional immigration crisis preparedness and response, develop contingency process, and coordinate with stakeholders to mitigate disruption to the business.
• Contribute to the design of future-state immigration operating models, workflows, and cross-functional intake processes.
• Monitor regulatory changes and update processes to ensure ongoing regional compliance.
• Lead regional immigration components of program transitions, redesigns, and system enhancements.
• Quarterly travel to Connecticut and periodic international travel within the assigned region.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in immigration and work authorization compliance across local hires, assignments, relocations, business travel, and multi-jurisdictional pathways, with experience leading global/regional compliance programs and complex case strategy.
• Experience in interpreting regulatory requirements and translating them into operational guidance, while partnering effectively with external counsel and immigration service providers, including vendor oversight.
• Experience solving problems by identifying root causes, designing solutions and executing outcomes.
• Experience with project management skillsets to deliver complex projects in fast-paced environments and proactively resolving emerging challenges.

Requirements

• Experience with global mobility tax and social security considerations.
• Background in international HR operations or assignment management.
• Experience working in matrixed global environments.
• Government contracting experience.
• Familiarity with global employment practices, entity setups, and international onboarding.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Student Loan Repayment Program.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection.
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits.
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning.
• Adoption Assistance.
• Autism Benefit.
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program.
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits.
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services.
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program.
• And more!