Senior Manager, Global Mobility

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Canada, United States · Remote · People Planning, Places & Ops

This role leads and evolves Affirm's global mobility strategy, focusing on immigration, remote work, and global assignments. It involves designing policies, building scalable processes, ensuring compliance, advising senior leaders, and managing vendors to support global hiring and talent retention in a remote-first environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and evolve Affirm’s global mobility strategy across immigration, remote work, and global assignments
  2. Establish globally consistent policies and decision frameworks for immigration, cross-border work, and permanent transfers, with appropriate local flexibility
  3. Build scalable processes and tooling to support global mobility in a remote-first environment
  4. Partner with internal Legal and external counsel to deliver compliant, forward-looking immigration and mobility programs
  5. Advise senior leaders on immigration, mobility, and location decisions, incorporating evolving regulatory requirements and impacts, and balancing business needs, cost, and employee experience

Skills

Required

  • 10–12+ years of experience in global mobility and immigration
  • Deep expertise in U.S. immigration
  • Experience owning and evolving programs in a multi-jurisdiction, remote-first or distributed environment
  • Strong understanding of immigration, employment, and remote work compliance considerations
  • Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels
  • Proven experience influencing cross-functional and senior stakeholders
  • Strong judgment and ability to navigate ambiguity and complex tradeoffs
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear, practical guidance
  • Experience managing vendors and building and scaling programs

What the JD emphasized

  • Immigration is the largest and most critical component of this role.
  • You will own a global immigration program with a significant focus on U.S. strategy, shaping sustainable, long-term pathways for talent while navigating an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.
  • deep expertise in U.S. immigration
  • Strong understanding of immigration, employment, and remote work compliance considerations