As someone who’s from a third word country and has worked with US based companies before, I’ve desperately been trying to look for a remote opportunity in IT based in the US. I have 5+ years of experience in the relative fields and C1 English proficiency.
I’d be willing to work in the following jobs:
* Scrum Master
* Product Owner
* Quality Assurance Engineer
Please let me know if you or anybody you know can help. I’ll share the resume with you.
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>Scrum Master
>Product Owner
I don’t know what these are.
This seems to be one of the worst times to be looking for a remote job for these roles – with the job market tightening, employers can be more picky. They’re targeting more people (especially in quasi-management roles such as scrum master/PO) to return to office, at least 2-3 days per week. I know that some engineering companies will have onsite outsourced engineering in Chennai, but I’m not sure if that helps you. As for working remote *and* out of the country, I’m not sure if there’s a need for a visa with remote work, but I don’t know if they’d be paying you a “US salary” if you weren’t in the country. Generally companies will target outsourced roles specifically to save money.
My last two companies have had these jobs as part of our IT organizations. And I am in HR. In both companies, we did have some remote (non-US based) IT workers, but they were contractors, not employees. And we outsourced to a local IT company for the contractors. So these IT associates actually worked for the local IT company vs my company.
We have very few, if any, non-US based IT employees. And there are lots of reasons for that. Number one is that hiring remote employees who work in a foreign country can be risky for the company. Employment & business laws vary by country, so hiring a remote employee can require that the company have country specific licenses and follow country specific employment laws. It’s not worth the risk unless the company is already doing business in that country.
Depending on where you are, you could do two things. 1 – see if there is an local IT company that you can join and work as a contract for a US based company. 2 – Look at large multinational companies that already do business in your country.
ETA – Scrum master is one of my all time favorite job titles.
LinkedIn (and Monster/Indeed/etc) allow for filtering by “Remote”; there’s also a handful of sites dedicated to remote work, but their quality is….*ehh*. Honestly though, there’s a growing sense of skip those sites and hit up the companies directly through their own job portals.
The real thing though?
No one has a damn clue what to recommend because the job market is a pants-on-head circus.
I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Every remote job I’ve seen in the US tech industry requires you to reside in the US, save for AirBnB and maybe some crypto companies. Things also appear to be moving *away* from remote and back to in-office/hybrid. Lastly, companies that do hire people from other countries almost always adjust their compensation based on local market conditions.
The demand for remote work is through the roof. The entire country got a taste of it during COVID and many people are now demanding it. Job postings that would have gotten a couple dozen applications a few years ago are now getting a few thousand. Add in that you’d be foreign and all the problems companies run into with sponsorships and visa requirements and there is even less of a desire to hire non-americans.
Long story short….good luck.
My company you have to be a citizen (or have appropriate visa/permits) and be in the country. That is pretty much the norm, otherwise they will have to sponsor you.