Not on the strength of the application. A pending Gold Card process confers no work authorization. He needs an existing nonimmigrant classification that permits the work, obtained on its own merits, or he must wait.
Pending is not permitted
Hypothetical example: a Mission rigging company has a supervisor whose corporate Gold Card sponsorship has begun, and a production in the United States wants him on set next month. The program, as officially described, leads to an immigrant category after fee, vetting and gift; nothing in that sequence authorizes employment while it runs. Working on set without a classification that permits it is unauthorized employment and can undermine both the pending process and any later application.
The company's options are the ordinary ones: a nonimmigrant classification for which he qualifies on his own facts, filed and approved before he works, or postponing his involvement. The Gold Card should be planned on its own timeline, which the official page does not guarantee, and should not be used as a reason to cut corners on the near-term job. Hypothetical example: An office-furniture distributor wants a prospective executive on a U.S.
sales trip while the executive's Gold Card vetting is incomplete. The first review must keep the program timeline separate from travel authorization. Dated filing acknowledgements and official instructions settle the stage reached; they do not themselves authorize the executive to perform U.S.
employment. Schedule business activity only under an independently valid travel or work basis. The applicant should decide whether the commercial deadline can tolerate the sequence of processing, vetting and the applicable gift payment, rather than treating a pending application as permission to begin work.