Senior Mobility Specialist - Immigration Lawyer

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

The Mobility team embodies Remote’s dedication to building a worldwide talent community. They ensure employees transition smoothly across borders, adhering to local laws, and provide extensive immigration and relocation assistance. This allows Remote and its clients to secure top global talent, and their commitment to risk management and clear stakeholder communication is commendable. They improve processes for compliance in remote work and business travel, keeping Remote at the global mobility forefront.

Their collaborative approach with vendors and focus on top-notch relocation logistics guarantee seamless transitions for Remote employees, enhancing Remote’s global mobility programs and affirming its leadership in the global talent market.

Join Remote at a pivotal time and contribute significantly as a Senior Mobility Specialist within our Onboarding and Mobility team. This role offers the unique opportunity to impact the global employment landscape directly.

What you bring

• An immigration lawyer licensed to practice in Germany
• Extensive experience in immigration compliance, global mobility, or similar roles in immigration.
• An in-depth understanding of immigration and typical processes involved in immigration compliance
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Previous experience in the tech industry or a hyper-growth and scaling environment is ideal
• Writes and speaks fluent English; additional languages are a plus
• Experience working remotely is a plus
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor assigned cases through effective utilization of case management and billing systems
• Provide guidance for specific travel needs, counsel on the immigration process, and serve as a point of contact for business travel and sponsorship cases
• Provide legal and strategic guidance on service delivery of immigration compliance to our clients
• Take ownership of senior-level escalations to support Mobility Specialists in all areas of work
• Assist leadership in the management of large projects
• Regularly monitor the Mobility dashboard, communication and help channels to ensure response times adhere to our SLAs and status is accurately reported for client and colleague visibility
• Seek, control, and establish in-house immigration services to increase revenue generation and efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction
• Analyze, prepare and submit visa/work permit applications
• Mentor and support Mobility Specialists and Coordinators
• Actively contribute to documentation for training material of new service offerings and support training rollouts to other departments in process changes
• Establish, maintain, and strengthen internal and external relationships with clients and internal stakeholders
• Independently maintain and monitor immigration law, ensuring ongoing compliance with regulatory changes, and control internal documentation
• Apply immigration knowledge for solution-based responses on complex client cases

Practicals

• You'll report to: Manager, Mobility
• Team: Mobility
• Location : For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritize applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify; DACH
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

• AI Interview
• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with future manager
• Interview with Senior Manager
• Bar Raiser Interview
• Prior employment verification check

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

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