Does navigating global immigration strategy excite you?
Do you want to help candidates succeed through every step of their immigration process?
Join out Global Mobility Team!
Our team enables Akamai to deploy talent globally through compliant, cost-effective solutions. We also oversee FlexBase, temporary remote work, and digital nomad visa programs to support flexible work arrangements while managing business risk.
Partner with the best
In this role, you will help Akamai attract and retain talent by managing U.S. employment-based immigration cases and supporting employees through key career and life transitions. You will partner with outside immigration counsel, HR, Recruiting, and business leaders to coordinate sponsorship, ensure work authorization continuity, and provide clear guidance.
As a Global Mobility Specialist II, you will be responsible for:
- Managing end-to-end U.S. employment-based cases (new hires, transfers, amendments, extensions, and PERM/GC sponsorship) in partnership with outside counsel
- Tracking work authorization expirations, milestone dates, and data reconciliation as well as escalating risks affecting employment continuity or start dates
- Partnering with counsel and internal teams to plan, identify candidates, manage registration, and prepare annual H-1B cap petitions
- Advising HR, Recruiting, and managers on sponsorship needs and job/compensation changes and providing clear/empathetic guidance to employees regarding processes/timelines/travel
- Monitoring vendor responsiveness and service quality and maintaining employee resources, intranet content, and ERG communications to enhance the overall employee experience
- Generating status reports for HR and Payroll, support audits, and assist with international transfers and remote work/digital nomad visa assessments
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years of relevant U.S. employment-based immigration experience (H-1B cap, PERM, and non-immigrant sponsorship)and a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Demonstrate portfolio management skills with a meticulous eye for detail, data accuracy, and deadline tracking
- Possess the ability to explain complex immigration concepts clearly and empathetically, maintaining sound judgment with confidential matters
- Have proven success working cross-functionally across cultures and time zones. Proficiency with MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook) and HR systems
- Have prior experience in corporate immigration, a law firm, or an immigration service provider
- Have exposure to global mobility, international transfers, or M&A immigration support
- Demonstrate experience optimizing case management workflows, reporting, or employee resources
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $76,100 - $136,900/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of relevant U.S. employment-based immigration experience, including H-1B cap, PERM, and non-immigrant sponsorship
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Portfolio management skills with meticulous attention to detail, data accuracy, and deadline tracking
- Ability to explain complex immigration concepts clearly and empathetically and exercise sound judgment with confidential matters
- Cross-functional experience working across cultures and time zones
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and Outlook, and HR systems
- Prior experience in corporate immigration, a law firm, or an immigration service provider
- Exposure to global mobility, international transfers, or M&A immigration support
- Experience optimizing case management workflows, reporting, or employee resources
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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