Senior Paralegal, Immigration

Responsibilities

• Support the administration of the Company's employment-based immigration program, including coordination of nonimmigrant and immigrant visa matters and related immigration processes.
• Serve as a key point of contact between external immigration counsel and internal stakeholders, including sponsored employees, managers, the People Team, and the Legal Team.
• Respond to routine immigration inquiries and escalate complex or higher-risk matters to the Associate General Counsel or external counsel as appropriate.
• Care for immigration case initiation, document collection, job-duty confirmations, LCA postings, and other Company-side necessities needed to back up 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 occasions.
• 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 helping ensure consistent application of Company sponsorship procedures.
• Keep up to date on changing immigration laws that impact current and future employees of Redwood.
• Support other Legal Team projects as assigned.

Requirements

• 5+ years of business immigration experience.
• Knowledge of U.S. employment-based immigration processes, including immigration and nonimmigrant petitions and processes, and immigration 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 the ability to manage multiple matters, deadlines, stakeholders, and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain immigration processes clearly, professionally, and empathetically.
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, discretion, and ability to handle confidential employee and Company information.
• Able to maintain focus, accuracy, and sound judgment while managing complex information, shifting priorities, and evolving processes in a fast-paced environment.
• 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.

Skills

• Paralegal certificate, bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience preferred.

Benefits

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Qualifications

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