Strategy Specialist, Immigration

Amazon; Auburn (AL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Business Mobility Services is seeking a Strategy Specialist in Immigration to define program goals, build roadmaps, and partner with cross‑functional teams to improve cost, quality, and compliance. You will deliver charters, schedules, risk logs, and change management artifacts, shaping forward‑looking plans to meet near‑term and long‑term objectives.

This role requires strong project management skills and the ability to drive complex initiatives end‑to‑end within a fast‑paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, HR, or related field.
• 5 years of experience in Mobility, Immigration, or project management.
• Project management certification or formal training is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and manage a portfolio of cross-functional immigration projects.
• Develop implementation plans for new services and expansions.
• Create and maintain charters, schedules, risk logs, and status reports.
• Provide forward-looking strategic roadmaps to meet near-term and long-term goals.
• Define technical requirements and build business justification for features.

Skills

Project management

Mobility/Immigration domain experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, HR, or related field

PM certification (PMP) or Lean Six Sigma training

Job description

At Amazon, we’re working to be the earth’s best employer. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon’s Business Mobility Services (BMS) is looking for a smart, passionate candidate to create new service offerings and consult on product development for the U.S. immigration organization. BMS’ Immigration Strategy and Operations team is a group of project managers, analysts, and experienced immigration subject matter experts who act as strategic partners and consultants to business leaders and partner support teams. The team centrally manages immigration filings and the vendors that support Amazon, and delivers projects to improve cost, quality, policy, compliance, and experience for immigration services at Amazon. In this role you will be responsible for defining, managing, and delivering projects and goals from conception through to completion. This includes developing and delivering key project artifacts such as charters, schedules, risk logs, status reports, and lessons learned documentation. A critical aspect of the role is providing forward‑looking strategic plans that outline roadmaps to reach both near‑term and long‑term program goals. Additionally, you will define the technical requirements needed to support program plans and build the business justification for any features or enhancements required to achieve the program’s objectives. Success in this role requires strong project management skills, the ability to work cross‑functionally, and experience driving complex initiatives from start to finish.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Manage portfolio of cross‑functional projects in support of in‑house programs.
• Define strategy and develop implementation plans to drive new service launches and expansions of existing services partnering with tech, service and program teams.
• Define and execute communication and change management strategies with related artifacts for expansion goals and projects.
• Manage and drive delivery of regular progress updates for projects and goals to partners, stakeholders and leadership to drive visibility and accountability.
• Implement strategies to balance technology with human interaction to preserve and improve the customer experience while services expand in scope and scale.
• Lead improvement of the processes related to launching new services or expanding existing services while driving service launches to completion.
• Stay updated on regulatory changes by monitoring relevant portals, publications and notifications.
• Escalate issues and challenges that impact project delivery and/or customer experience timely.
• Review project impact, and readjusting based on new regulations; oversee change management.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, HR, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in Mobility, Immigration, or project management.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6‑7 years of experience either with a law firm or in‑house organization with a significant volume of immigration/mobility work.
• Project management related certification or training.
• ACES, Lean, Six Sigma certification or training.

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Strategy Specialist, Immigration