Senior Paralegal, Immigration

Redwood Materials; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials is seeking a Senior Paralegal, Immigration to support our internal employment-based immigration program. You will coordinate with external counsel, sponsored employees, managers, the People Team, and the Legal Team to administer immigration sponsorship processes and ensure timely, compliant handling according to company procedures.

The role involves managing day-to-day immigration operations, maintaining records, and developing templates, SOPs, and resources to improve

Qualifications

• 5+ years of business immigration experience.
• Knowledge of U.S. employment-based immigration processes and compliance concepts.
• Experience coordinating immigration matters with external counsel and internal stakeholders.
• Strong project management and organizational skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to explain processes clearly.
• Discretion and ability to handle confidential employee and company information.

Responsibilities

• Administer the Company’s employment-based immigration program and visa matters.
• Coordinate with external immigration counsel and internal stakeholders.
• Respond to routine inquiries and escalate complex matters to counsel as needed.
• Manage case initiation, document collection, and related requirements for filings.
• Support sponsorship assessments, internal approvals, and lottery/PERM processes.
• Develop and maintain immigration procedures, templates, and resources.
• Track deadlines, identify compliance risks, and monitor external spend.
• Stay updated on changes in immigration laws affecting Redwood employees.
• Support other Legal Team projects as assigned.

Skills

Business immigration experience

US immigration processes

External counsel coordination

Project management

Written and verbal communication

Confidentiality and discretion

Process development

Microsoft Office suite

HRIS/immigration systems familiarity

Paralegal certificate or equivalent

Education

Paralegal certificate

Bachelor’s degree

Equivalent education/experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Excel

Teams

SharePoint

HRIS systems

Immigration case management systems

Job description

About Redwood Materials

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling—keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re 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 Company’s 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 Company’s 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 escalation of 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, bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience preferred.

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

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