Director, Immigration & Mobility Programs

Role Summary

Our mission at HubSpot is to help millions of organizations grow better. As Director Immigration & Mobility Programs youll own how HubSpot hires moves and retains talent across countriesensuring our immigration and mobility programs scale with the business withstand regulatory change and support critical workforce decisions. This role is responsible for building durable programs clear governance and strong operating discipline across immigration and mobility while balancing employee experience risk cost and business agility.

This role sits at the intersection of immigration mobility workforce strategy and employee experience with a mandate to design scalable programs that support hiring internal mobility and growth amid regulatory change. Youll partner closely with senior leaders across People Legal and Finance to ensure HubSpots global workforce can scale with confidence care and clarity.

What Youll Do

• Own the end-to-end immigration and mobility operating model completing the transition to a scalable durable structure with clear tiering governance and accountability across People Ops vendors and internal partners.
  
  
• Set the strategy and guardrails for how HubSpot hires and moves talent globally advising senior People and TA leaders on location decisions sponsorship approaches and mobility tradeoffs.
  
  
• Design and maintain global immigration and mobility policies that are practical defensible and aligned to HubSpots people philosophy and long-term workforce strategy.
  
  
• Build and operationalize governance frameworks and contingency playbooks to respond to regulatory volatility geopolitical risk and policy change.
  
  
• Optimize vendor strategy across immigration mobility and related programs including SLAs performance metrics cost controls and renewals.
  
  
• Establish clear operating rhythms dashboards and reporting to monitor program health risk cost and employee experience.
  
  
• Lead coach and evolve the Immigration & Mobility team setting direction raising the bar on judgment and execution and evolving the function from execution-heavy to advisory-led.
  
  
• Partner cross-functionally with Employment Legal Tax Total Rewards People Ops and People Business Partners to deliver integrated compliant and employee-centered mobility solutions at scale.

What Youll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Proven ownership of global immigration and/or mobility programs at scale with accountability for outcomesnot just executionin multi-country environments.
  
  
• Strong judgment navigating regulatory risk employee impact and business tradeoffs including deciding what to handle in-house versus through vendors.
  
  
• Experience setting strategy and guardrails including designing operating models policies and governance that hold up through growth change and ambiguity.
  
  
• Track record of measurable impact particularly through vendor performance management cost governance and service quality improvement.
  
  
• Executive-level influence with the ability to advise senior People Legal and business leaders on high-stakes workforce and mobility decisions.
  
  
• People leadership and operational discipline including developing teams and establishing metrics dashboards and reporting rhythms that inform leadership decisions.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience advising on immigration and mobility implications of workforce strategy including internal mobility early talent programs M&A or new entity expansion.
  
  
• Deep partnership experience with Employment Legal Tax and Total Rewards particularly in high-risk or highly regulated contexts.
  
  
• Track record of leading teams through transformation shifting work from transactional execution to strategic advisory and program ownership.
  
  
• Experience in high-growth technology or SaaS companies with global technical talent populations.