About this role.
Alma is seeking a U.S. employment-based immigration attorney to serve as the legal partner for its Marketing team. The role combines immigration case strategy, legal review, public education, community engagement, and attorney-led content creation. The attorney will translate complex visa and green-card pathways into accurate, accessible guidance across social channels, webinars, videos, guides, and customer-facing resources. Success requires 4+ years of experience with employment-based immigration matters, excellent writing and public-speaking skills, and sound judgment regarding educational content versus individualized legal advice. This is a cross-functional, high-visibility role working closely with Legal, Growth, Product, Marketing, and Operations.
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I would first identify the recurring factual themes and create a legally reviewed framework explaining general eligibility factors, common evidence categories, and decision considerations. I would use clear disclaimers and avoid conclusions about any individual’s eligibility, while directing readers to an intake or consultation process for fact-specific guidance.
I would confirm the primary source, identify the effective date and affected populations, compare it with existing USCIS guidance, and assess practical implications for common client pathways. I would then produce plain-language content with precise legal qualifiers, route it through the appropriate review process, and establish an update schedule if the policy remains unsettled.
I would preserve the educational value while reframing the response around general rules, variables, and next steps rather than an outcome for the commenter. If needed, I would recommend a private intake pathway and explain that immigration eligibility depends on a complete review of the person’s facts.
I begin by mapping the client’s achievements to the regulatory criteria and identifying the strongest available evidence, including comparable evidence where appropriate. I build a cohesive narrative that explains the field, distinguishes the client’s impact, anticipates adjudicator questions, and coordinates supporting documentation early to reduce RFE risk.
I would establish clear review workflows, reusable approved-language libraries, and escalation criteria for higher-risk claims. This allows teams to move quickly on common educational materials while ensuring new product experiences, conversion messaging, and client-facing resources receive legal review when they could create inaccurate expectations or compliance concerns.
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 Marketing team, helping shape Alma’s voice across community engagement, public education, and immigration content. You’ll translate legal expertise into clear, accurate, and practical guidance across social media, online communities, educational resources, and customer facing materials. As we grow, you’ll help build scalable systems and resources that enable Alma to share trusted immigration knowledge with thousands of people.
Your time will roughly break down as:
Community Engagement & Thought Leadership (≈70%)
Review and personalize responses for social media and online communities, ensuring every response is legally accurate and written in your authentic voice.
Participate in online community discussions, AMAs, webinars, and other educational initiatives to help establish Alma as a trusted voice in employment-based immigration.
Help identify recurring immigration questions and develop content that proactively addresses them.
Write scripts and appear in educational videos, webinars, podcasts, and other public-facing content.
Content & Legal Education (≈30%)
Review immigration content for legal accuracy, clarity, and practical usefulness across our website, guides, blog, newsletters, and educational resources.
Write and edit immigration guides, website copy, FAQs, evidence lists, internal playbooks, templates, and workflows that make complex immigration topics easy to understand.
Publish timely attorney-backed breakdowns of USCIS announcements, regulatory changes, policy updates, and emerging immigration trends.
Help build and maintain Alma’s immigration knowledge base, ensuring content remains accurate, current, and useful.
Provide legal review for new initiatives, educational materials, customer-facing resources, and marketing content.
Partner with Growth, Product, and Legal to turn common client questions into scalable educational content.
You Should Apply If
You have 4+ years of experience practicing U.S. employment-based immigration law.
You’ve worked across a broad range of employment-based visa categories, including O-1A/B, EB-1A/B, H-1B, L-1, E-2, TN, PERM, and related pathways. Bonus points if you’ve handled particularly complex O-1 or EB-1 matters or developed creative RFE strategies.
You’re an exceptional writer who can explain complex immigration concepts in a clear, practical, and approachable way.
You enjoy educating people and building trust through thoughtful, authentic communication.
You’re comfortable speaking publicly through videos, webinars, podcasts, and community events.
You have strong legal judgment and know how to distinguish between general educational guidance and fact specific legal advice.
You’re comfortable using modern technology and excited about how it can help attorneys work more effectively and reach more people.
You think analytically and creatively, spotting patterns across many cases and translating those insights into educational content.
You enjoy collaborating across Legal, Growth, Product, Marketing, and Operations.
You’re proactive and excited to shape how immigration knowledge is delivered at scale.
You hold a J.D. or LL.B. (or equivalent law degree) and are eligible to practice law in your jurisdiction. Experience advising on U.S. immigration law is required.
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.
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