Associate Immigration Attorney - USA (Remote/Hybrid)
Job Type: Permanent
Location: USA (Remote/Hybrid)
Salary: $Negotiable + Equity + Bonus + Benefits
This AI-native immigration practice is looking to hire an attorney to join an ambitious startup reimagining how immigration law is delivered. This is an opportunity for an early-career business immigration attorney to combine substantive legal practice with a hand in building the systems behind it. You'll advise startup founders and technical talent and manage petitions from intake through filing. Alongside your caseload, you'll help build scalable, repeatable playbooks. You'll also give engineers practical feedback on AI-assisted drafting and review tools. You'll be one of the founding legal team members and help define how the entire practice operates. Early team members get meaningful equity. AI-native from day one-you won't be bolting AI onto old workflows. You'll practice immigration law with purpose-built AI tools and shape how those tools evolve based on your real case experience.
The Role:
You'll take responsibility for the full case lifecycle, including:
- Managing O-1A, EB-1A, EB-2 NIW and H-1B petitions, from initial assessment and evidence gathering through drafting, review and submission.
- Running free attorney consultations with prospective clients, assessing visa options, case strength and suitability for the practice.
- Building persuasive legal arguments that connect a client's achievements to the relevant eligibility criteria.
- Advising founders and engineers directly, explaining strategy, evidence requirements and next steps clearly.
- Learning the practice's approach to creative, client-first case-building and helping document it for consistent use.
- Using the platform and AI-assisted drafting tools, with feedback to engineering on how those workflows can better support legal work.
The Person:
You'll need a J.D. from an accredited law school, active bar membership in good standing in any US state, and 1-3 years' business immigration experience. New York bar membership is a plus.
Your experience should include employment-based non-immigrant and immigrant petitions, hands-on case management, petition review and submission, and work on O-1, EB-1A or NIW cases. Strong legal writing and the confidence to advise clients directly are essential.
Experience at a large immigration practice or a specialist boutique would be useful. Work with startup or founder clients, and experience responding to RFEs or NOIDs, would also be valuable.
This role is aimed at an early-career associate rather than an established mid-to-senior attorney. It will suit someone who takes initiative, follows cases through and is willing to reconsider familiar approaches-not simply reproduce a previous firm's playbook.
APPLY NOW:
Apply if you want meaningful case ownership, close access to experienced immigration counsel and the chance to help shape how an AI-enabled legal practice operates.
To apply for the position, please send your CV to Andy Shaw via the 'apply now' button.
