No. It is a separate official framework built around a gift to the U.S. government plus a processing fee, not one of the conventional employment or investment classifications.
Different structure, different questions
Treating this as another visa category leads to the wrong questions being asked. Conventional categories are built around a relationship to work, a business or a family member, with conditions that can be met by evidence about those things. The published Gold Card framework is built around a financial transfer of a different character, and the analysis that follows is correspondingly different: what exactly is transferred, to whom, on what terms, what it entitles the payer to, and what happens if the arrangement changes. Anyone weighing it against an established route should get answers to those questions from the official materials in writing, and should note when the answers were checked, before treating the comparison as settled.
Current official requirements include eligibility for lawful permanent residence, admissibility to the United States, visa availability and government vetting, with successful applicants receiving permanent residence in an appropriately determined EB-1 or EB-2 classification. Because the case still proceeds through EB-1 or EB-2 classification, eligibility, admissibility, and visa availability remain live questions that a hiring budget cannot resolve; recruiting spend is also not EB-5 investment capital and creates no job-creation credit.