Immigration Attorney - Assessments & Marketing

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 Vialto, 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...