Mobility Specialist at Remote - Async APAC Role — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Fully async, work-from-anywhere: This role at Remote is one of the most nomad-friendly positions you'll find. The company operates on a fully asynchronous model — no fixed meeting blocks, no mandatory timezone overlap. You plan your day around your life, not a calendar full of standups.
Location constraint: The role is scoped to APAC, meaning you'll need to be based in (or legally permitted to work from) the Asia-Pacific region. This still covers an enormous range of popular digital nomad destinations: Bali, Chiang Mai, Medellín equivalents in Asia like Da Nang or Tbilisi-adjacent spots in Georgia are not eligible — but Southeast Asia and Oceania are wide open.
- Bali, Indonesia: Monthly cost of living ~$1,200–$1,800. At the lower end of the salary band (~$29K/yr ≈ $2,450/mo), you'd live comfortably. Bali's digital nomad visa allows stays up to 5 years.
- Chiang Mai, Thailand: Monthly costs ~$1,000–$1,500. Thailand's LTR visa or SMART visa suits remote workers employed abroad.
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: ~$1,000–$1,400/month. No official digital nomad visa yet, but tourist visa runs are common.
Travel perks: Remote provides a home office/IT budget and a coworking space allowance — handy for hot-desking at spaces like KoHub or HUBBA across Asia. The 16-week paid parental leave and mental health benefits travel with you globally.
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 a 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 our 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 Mobility Specialist within our Onboarding and Mobility team. This role offers the unique opportunity to impact the global employment landscape directly.
What You Bring
- Proven experience in immigration compliance, global mobility, or similar roles, particularly with a focus on immigration
- A comprehensive understanding of immigration procedures and the typical processes involved in ensuring immigration compliance
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
- Ability to demonstrate composure and efficiency under pressure, maintaining high-performance standards during seasons of increased workloads
- Experience in the technology sector or a company undergoing rapid growth and scaling is highly desirable
- Flexible and adaptable team player who can seamlessly shift in response to evolving priorities or changing processes
- Demonstrated customer-facing experience, with a strong emphasis on communication skills and the ability to engage effectively with diverse client bases
- A strong interest in expanding knowledge of global immigration laws, eager to develop expertise
- Experience working remotely and/or asynchronously with minimal oversight is an advantage
- Must write and speak English fluently (additional languages are a plus)
Key Responsibilities
- Provide legal and strategic guidance to clients on immigration compliance service delivery.
- Monitor and control Remote products and services for immigration compliance.
- Establish, maintain, and strengthen relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.
- Seek, control, and establish in-house immigration services to increase revenue generation, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
- Analyze, prepare, and submit visa/work permit applications.
- Independently maintain and monitor immigration law, ensuring ongoing compliance with regulatory changes, and control internal documentation.
- Appropriately handle escalations, analyze when senior-level review is required, determine solutions, and guide stakeholders to a timely resolution.
- Guide specific travel needs, counsel on the immigration process, and serve as a point of contact for business travel and sponsorship cases.
- Control case statuses by effectively utilizing case management and billing systems.
- Apply immigration knowledge to provide solution-based responses when dealing with complex client cases.
- Be a team player who can work autonomously and take ownership of day-to-day tasks.
- Proactively improve processes through automation and documentation.
Practicals
- You'll report to: Mobility Manager
- Team: Mobility
- Location: APAC
- Start date: As soon as possible
Application Process
- AI Interview
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with future manager
- Interview with team members
- 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.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide — here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while hiring globally. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
The annual salary range for this full-time position is $29,450–$74,500 USD.
Benefits
Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
- Work from anywhere
- Flexible paid time off
- Flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Mental health support services
- Stock options
- Learning budget
- Home office budget & IT equipment
- Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
How You'll Plan Your Day (and Life)
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
How to Apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV in PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don't have an up-to-date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it's important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this role truly fully remote or are there office requirements?
What is the salary range for this Mobility Specialist role?
What immigration experience is required to apply?
How many stages are in the interview process?
Are there stock options or equity included in the compensation?
