Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
As part of the People Risk, Privacy & Compliance team, the Immigration Program Manager (UK) will serve as the most senior in-house subject matter expert on UK immigration compliance, with broader responsibility for supporting Rest of World (non-US) immigration workstreams. This senior individual contributor role operates with significant autonomy: you will set the direction of the UK immigration program, provide definitive counsel on the most complex and precedent-setting matters, and influence organisational strategy.

Your primary focus will be optimising UK immigration processes across insourced and outsourced operations, owning compliance and audit readiness, and staying ahead of regulatory change. You will also act as a senior partner to the wider ROW immigration program, bringing consistency, risk frameworks, and vendor governance to a multi-country footprint.

Key responsibilities include acting as the definitive subject matter expert and escalation point for UK immigration compliance, setting the UK immigration compliance strategy and roadmap, identifying policy and process gaps, drafting revisions, and driving implementation across teams and vendors. You will monitor regulatory change across the UK and ROW, assess strategic and operational impact, and implement resulting policy and process changes.

You will own vendor strategy and governance for immigration providers and shared services teams, holding partners to a high standard of employee, manager, and stakeholder experience. You will provide direction to team members and vendor resources without formal people management accountability.

Defining program metrics and using complex data sets to report on compliance health, risk indicators, and vendor performance to senior leadership will be essential. You will partner with Legal, HR, Recruiting, Payroll, Global Mobility, and business leaders, influencing through credibility and trust rather than positional authority, and be sought out as the expert across the organisation.

Additionally, you will provide critical expertise for corporate development activities such as mergers, acquisitions, and entity or footprint changes. You will identify, scope, and take ownership of emerging compliance problems as the team and company evolve, exercising independent judgement on approach and solution.

Experience
10+ years of experience in immigration, employment compliance, or people compliance, including in-house program leadership at a large-scale organisation or equivalent law firm/consultancy experience.
Deep, authoritative expertise in UK immigration: Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility routes, sponsor licence duties and reporting, right to work, record-keeping, and Home Office compliance visits and audits.
Experience supporting immigration across multiple non-US jurisdictions, comfortable operating where guidance is ambiguous or precedent does not yet exist.
Track record of setting strategy and driving large-scale, cross-functional programs from conception to implementation.
Demonstrated data analytics expertise and ability to set technical direction for peers on complex projects.
Experience using AI tools and technology to streamline compliance workflows, improve efficiency, or enhance decision-making.
Strong working knowledge of adjacent frameworks including employment law, data privacy (e.g. GDPR), and workforce regulatory requirements.
Experience influencing senior leadership and implementing industry-standard practices across vendors.
Experience managing outside counsel and outsourced immigration providers at scale.

About you
Ability to make autonomous, high-judgement decisions and spot emerging issues before they escalate.
Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy with highly confidential data.
Excellent communication skills, handling sensitive matters with tact and diplomacy.
Ability to travel occasionally as needed for cross-site engagement.
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews).
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements).

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in law, Human Resources, compliance, or a related field.
Depth in one or more additional jurisdictions (e.g. EU member states, APAC) and experience supporting multi-country mobility populations.