Details
Posted: 31-May-22
Location: Seattle, Washington
Type: Full Time
Required Education: Juris Doctor
The Role
We’re looking for an attorney who is passionate about immigration and helping clients navigate complex regulations to gain life-changing opportunities. You’ll be a leader within the Client Services team, directly working with clients and reviewing the work of Immigration Specialists.
You will provide industry-leading service to prospects and customers by offering timely and clear legal guidance. You will use your legal expertise and strategic thinking to help our client continuously expand their product offerings. You are energized to help our client as they automate a manual, confusing immigration process into a modern, intuitive experience that connects global talent with opportunity.
Location
This is a remote position. We are accepting applicants in the U.S. and Canada.
Responsibilities
- Offer a consistent, industry-leading experience to customers by providing legal support and strategy from the initial kick-off call through petition filing.
- Provide legal strategy and legal review for initial submissions, re-submissions, and RFE/NOID responses prepared by Immigration Specialists.
- Develop new processes and templates so that our client can offer additional product offerings.
- Provide training to help Immigration Specialists level up.
- Serve as a trusted partner to the Technology team to help advance our client’s technology objectives.
- Provide feedback to the Technology team to further develop our client’s technology vision and products. 5% of the role is dedicated to collaborating with the Technology
- Work on special projects, as assigned.
Definition of Success
Required:
- 3+ years of experience as a business immigration attorney. Experience in both non-immigrant filings (O-1, H-1B, H-1B1, TN, E-3, E-2, etc.) and immigrant filings (EB-1, EB-2 NIW, I-485, etc.)
- Experience directly working with Paralegals and/or Immigration Specialists at a high-volume business immigration practice.
- Experience building processes and templates.
Preferred:
- Prior experience collaborating with Technology and/or Product teams.
- Prior experience working with startup founders or technology companies.
Your Superpowers
- Logical reasoning - You love to advocate for your clients and create compelling legal arguments supported by evidence.
- Communication - You’re a skilled communicator, you excel at active listening and know how to speak to people at all levels of our client as well as external
- Organized - You create order in chaos and use organization as a tool for process You excel at time management and know how to prioritize your work.
- Detail-oriented - You have an eagle eye. You are meticulously in your legal review for critical issues that could impact the client.
- Multi-tasker - You get a thrill from balancing multiple priorities at the same time, while keeping calm and collected. You can juggle multiple clients and priorities to achieve your production targets.
- Tech Enthusiast - You’ve been known to embrace technology and are energized to collaborate with Tech and move Immigration into the 21st century!
- Adaptable - You love to learn, are naturally curious and know how to adjust your behavior to new demands. You are someone who is eager to dig in and ask “why?”
What you’ll love about us
You’ll join a team where everyone is an integral part of making the world a better place. You’ll be part of a courageous, brilliant, focused, perseverant, and supportive team that is committed to making things happen. Your voice and ideas will matter.