In-house Business Immigration Head of Legal $250K-$330K

Job Description:

We are looking for a Head of Legal with 10+ years of employment-based immigration law experience to lead and scale Alma's entire legal service delivery function (exception: candidates who are currently a partner may be considered with fewer years). You are not a General Counsel — you are the person who owns the quality, performance, and accountability of every case that goes out the door. This is an executive seat reporting directly to the CEO at a venture-backed, AI-native immigration firm that is explicitly building to disrupt the immigration industry. We would like to see candidates who have done client development, have a proven book of business, a track record of building and managing attorney teams, business execution skills, and genuine AI fluency

What will you be doing?

• Define and enforce our proprietary legal excellence across ~20 attorneys and paralegals — setting standards for drafting, client communication, RFE responses, and case strategy while continuously improving approval rates.

• Build and scale a high-performing legal team: own hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management for both attorneys and paralegals, developing them into proactive client partners.

• Own the full client escalation lifecycle — intake, triage, resolution, and post-mortem — turning escalations into systemic improvements and keeping volume low.

• Drive business development and client retention, bringing in new clients and ensuring existing relationships are sticky enough that clients follow you, not just your firm's brand.

• Partner cross-functionally with the CEO, Head of Operations, and Head of Product to surface tooling gaps, translate regulatory shifts into operational adjustments, and feed legal intelligence into our AI-native platform.

Salary$250K - $330K

EquityCompetitive equity

On-site work policy4 days in-office in San Francisco, CA

Visa sponsorship availableVisa sponsorship available. Specific visa types to confirm with hiring manager.

Hiring CountLooking to hire 1 candidate for this role

LocationSan Francisco, CA, Palo Alto, CA

Why candidates should join

Category-defining opportunity in a $5B+ market that hasn't seen real innovation in decades. You'd be joining at the inflection point where AI meets immigration law and legacy firms like Fragomen and BAL get disrupted.

Executive seat with real ownership. You'd report directly to the CEO (Harvard Law, ex-Cooley, ex-McKinsey) and sit on the management team. You own the entire legal service delivery function - ~20 attorneys and paralegals today and scaling fast. This isn't a GC role buried in contracts. You'd set the quality bar, build the team, drive client outcomes and shape how immigration law gets practiced at scale.

Founder who gets legal quality. Unlike most legaltech startups where lawyers are an afterthought, the legal function here is the product. You'd have a CEO who understands what great legal work looks like and will back you in building it

Strong benefits and visa sponsorship. 100% health coverage (medical, dental, vision), 20 days PTO + 10 federal holidays, $250/month wellness allowance and visa sponsorship available.