Senior Paralegal, Immigration
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
About Redwood Materials
Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery reuse and recyclingkeeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017were delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time all from batteries we already have.
The Senior Paralegal Immigration will support the Companys internal employment-based immigration program as part of the Legal Team. This role will coordinate closely with external immigration counsel sponsored employees managers the People Team and the Legal Team to help administer immigration sponsorship processes and ensure immigration matters are handled consistently timely and in alignment with Company procedures.
This position will help manage day-to-day immigration operations support case coordination for sponsored employees and candidates maintain immigration-related records and tracking tools and develop practical procedures templates and resources to improve program efficiency compliance and employee experience.
Responsibilities will include:
- Support the administration of the Companys 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.
- Coordinate immigration case initiation document collection job-duty confirmations LCA postings and other Company-side requirements needed to support 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 events.
- 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.
Skills Knowledge and Abilities
- 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.
- Ability 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.
- Paralegal certificate bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience preferred.
In accordance with California pay transparency laws the salary range for this position is listed below. Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors including experience education and skills.
California Pay Range:
$122500 - $162500 USD
The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Redwood creates a closed-loop, domestic supply chain by recycling and refining lithium-ion batteries and remanufacturing anode and cathode components.