Immigration Attorney - Assessments & Marketing

Alma • Full-time • California, United States, US • 6h ago

Hi there! We're Alma 👋

We're on a mission to make immigration more accessible, transparent, and human through cutting-edge technology and thoughtful legal support. Alma is backed by top-tier investors like Bling Capital, Village Global, Forerunner, NFX, and Conviction, and founded by a diverse team of Harvard Law, HBS, and UCLA grads with experience at Cooley, McKinsey, EY, and Uber. Our legal team is made up of former Fragomen, Kramer, Ogletree, and BAL attorneys and paralegals.

We're looking for a creative and analytical immigration attorney to sit at the intersection of sales, strategy, and content. This role is the legal engine behind our sales motion: you'll be the go-to expert who turns a messy set of intake facts into a clear, defensible eligibility strategy — fast — and then turns those repeated patterns into content, tools, and scalable systems. It's ideal for someone who loves case strategy, thinks in pathways and probabilities, communicates crisply, and gets energy from helping a fast-moving team win.

If you're excited by employment-based immigration law, comfortable working alongside AI tools, and want to help build a better legal system from the inside — we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Do

You'll be the primary legal partner to our sales and client-facing teams: assessing eligibility, advising on strategy in real time, deciding which cases we should take, and progressively productizing that expertise so the standard work scales and you can focus on the hard cases. Your time will roughly break down as:

Eligibility Assessments & Sales Strategy (≈ 50%)

Review daily visa assessments and deliver clear, criterion-by-criterion verdicts (viable / viable with disclaimers / not viable) with clear risks
Think in pathways, not single visas — compare and sequence options across O-1A/B, EB-1A/B, EB-2 NIW, H-1B (including founder/beneficiary-owner H-1Bs), L-1, E-2, TN, and consular processing to find the best path for our clients
Act as the team's real-time legal help desk: unblock AEs on live deals, answer eligibility questions quickly, and take prospect consultations (including paid second opinions) when needed
Make go/no-go calls on case intake: spot red flags (status gaps, prior denials, undisclosed facts, employer or litigation issues) and use your judgement to make decisions
Apply current law to live situations — track fast-moving USCIS trends and policy changes (e.g., recent founder-H-1B guidance, evolving RFE patterns) and translate them into actionable advice

Productization, Content & Knowledge Base (≈ 35%)

Partner with product, GTM and operations to standardize and "productize" the assessment process
Mine assessment data for patterns — recurring weak criteria, intake gaps, requested-vs-recommended pathway mismatches — and turn them into guides, FAQs, lead magnets, decision tools, and thought-leadership
Write and edit immigration guides, website copy, internal explainers, templates, and workflows that make complex topics intuitive and human; keep our existing knowledge base (evidence lists, sample docs, articles) accurate and current
Publish rapid, lawyer-backed "news breakdowns" on regulatory changes, and review legal accuracy and tone on our blog
Optionally: write scripts for educational/marketing videos (and appear in a few)

Casework & Community (≈ 15%)

Support the legal team on active casework and RFE responses at a reduced capacity, reporting to our Head of Legal
Attend and present at in-person events — for immigrant founders, researchers, and mobility leaders

You Should Apply If:

You have at least 4 years practicing employment-based immigration law
You've worked across a broad range of visa types (O-1A/B, EB-1A/B, H-1B, L-1, E-2, TN, PERM), with bonus points for cracking tricky O's and EB-1's and for hands-on RFE strategy
You can quickly compare pathways and articulate a defensible strategy under time pressure
You're licensed to practice and hold a J.D. or LL.M. from an accredited institution
You're comfortable using AI tools and curious about how technology can scale legal work
You think analytically and creatively — you can look at patterns across many cases, not just one file at a time
You love distilling complex law into clear writing and persuasive storytelling
You're energized by cross-functional work with sales, content, product, and operations
You're proactive and excited to shape how immigration knowledge is delivered at scale

You Should NOT Apply If:

You're hoping for a traditional firm role centered on day-to-day filings and managing cases and client relationships
You prefer staying strictly within legal service delivery rather than engaging with sales, marketing, product, and operations
You'd rather follow established workflows than help design new frameworks, templates, and tools
You're uneasy working alongside AI tooling or with a role that evolves as we scale
You need a fully defined environment and a lot of structure — this attorney will help define what "great" looks like at the intersection of law, communication, and technology

What It's Like to Work at Alma

We're a small, mission-driven team reimagining immigration from the ground up. We value thoughtful and creative thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and building systems that scale with care. We move fast, raise the bar, and learn constantly from our clients and each other. We're low-ego and genuinely care about better outcomes for immigrants and their families.

Benefits & Perks

Hyper-competitive base salary based on experience
Performance-based incentives (equity / sales commission)
100% health coverage + vision + dental
20 days PTO + 10 federal holidays
$250/month wellness allowance
A front-row seat to startup growth, with mentorship from legal, tech, and business leaders
Opportunities to shape internal systems, lead on strategy, and build something new

A Quick Note

We know the "perfect" candidate doesn't exist. If this role excites you but you don't meet every qualification, we'd still love to hear from you. Immigration is complex. So are people. That's what makes this work so meaningful.