Senior Paralegal, Immigration

Overview

This role involves supporting the internal employment-based immigration program as part of the Legal Team. The Senior Paralegal, Immigration will coordinate closely with external immigration counsel, sponsored employees, managers, the People Team, and the Legal Team to administer immigration sponsorship processes. The position ensures immigration matters are handled consistently, timely, and in alignment with company procedures.

Responsibilities

• Support administration of the employment-based immigration program, including coordination of nonimmigrant and immigrant visa matters and related processes.
• Act as a key point of contact between external immigration counsel and internal stakeholders such as sponsored employees, managers, People Team, and Legal Team.
• Respond to routine immigration inquiries and escalate complex or higher-risk matters to Associate General Counsel or external counsel as appropriate.
• Coordinate immigration case initiation, document collection, job-duty confirmations, LCA postings, and other company-side requirements to support immigration filings.
• Support pre-hire immigration sponsorship assessments and internal approval processes for candidate sponsorship, employee sponsorship, extensions, H-1B lottery participation, PERM initiation, role changes, travel, and other immigration-impacting events.
• Develop, update, and maintain immigration-related procedures, SOPs, templates, checklists, FAQs, employee communications, and manager-facing resources.
• Support immigration program governance, including tracking key deadlines, identifying compliance risks, monitoring outside counsel spend, and ensuring consistent application of sponsorship procedures.
• Stay current on changing immigration laws affecting employees.
• Support other Legal Team projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of business immigration experience.
• Knowledge of U.S. employment-based immigration processes, including petitions and compliance concepts.
• Experience working with external immigration counsel and coordinating immigration matters involving employees, candidates, managers, HR, Recruiting, or Legal.
• Strong project management and organizational skills with ability to manage multiple matters, deadlines, stakeholders, and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to explain immigration processes clearly, professionally, and empathetically.
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, discretion, and ability to handle confidential employee and company information.
• Ability to maintain focus, accuracy, and sound judgment while managing complex information, shifting priorities, and evolving processes.
• Experience creating or improving processes, SOPs, trackers, templates, or employee-facing resources.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, HRIS systems, immigration case management systems, or similar business tools.
• Paralegal certificate, bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

• This is a full-time position.
• Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Location

• Not specified.

Additional Information

• The organization collects personal information in connection with employment applications, including identifiers, personal records, professional or employment information, and inferences drawn from this data, for purposes related to employment services and operations.