# Lead Counsel, Employment

**Company**: Ramp
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $228K – $313K
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Compensation

The target base salary for this role is $228K – $313K, with equity offered. The final compensation will depend on the location and level at which the candidate is hired.

## About the Role

We're looking for an Employment Counsel to join Ramp's Legal team. This is a generalist employment role with broad scope. You will handle U.S. employment counseling, cover non-U.S. jurisdictions as needed, and own immigration and global mobility.

## Responsibilities

- Provide day-to-day employment counseling: Advise People partners and managers on hiring, worker classification, compensation, leaves and accommodations, performance management, discipline, separations, and more

- Manage immigration and global mobility: Collaborate with the People team on the immigration program, set and communicate the sponsorship policy, manage outside immigration counsel and case volume

- Conduct investigations: Collaborate with the People team on internal investigations and advise on findings and outcomes

- Handle disputes: Manage demand letters, agency charges, arbitrations, and litigation with outside counsel

- Develop agreements and templates: Own offer letters, employment agreements, separation and release agreements, contractor and consultant agreements, restrictive covenants, and local-law variants

- Support transactions: Assist with employment and immigration diligence, employee transitions, and post-close integration for M&A and new-market entry

- Build for scale: Produce manager training, policies, self-serve guidance, and repeatable processes as we expand in the US and globally

## Requirements

- 8+ years practicing employment law, with a combination of top law firm and in-house experience at a high-growth technology company

- JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (New York or California preferred)

- Deep U.S. employment counseling experience across the full employee lifecycle

- Working knowledge of employment law outside the U.S. and the judgment to triage a cross-border question quickly

- Hands-on experience with U.S. business immigration and global mobility

## Nice to Haves

- Experience at a fintech, payments, or regulated financial services company

- Experience standing up employment infrastructure in a new country

- Employment experience across EMEA, APAC, LATAM, or Canada

- A track record of using AI or automation to eliminate manual legal work

## Benefits

### Global Benefits

- Flexible PTO

- Centralized home-office equipment ordering

- Health and wellness stipend

- Budget for intra-office travel

- Weekly coffee stipend

### United States Benefits

- 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents

- One Medical annual membership

- 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp

- Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)

- Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay

- Pet insurance

- In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more

- Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)

### Canada Benefits

- Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life

- Life, AD&D, and disability coverage

- Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)

- Group Retirement Plan with employer match (RRSP + DPSP)

- Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay

### United Kingdom Benefits

- Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite

- Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi

- Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option

- Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay

## Skills

### Required
- employment law
- U.S. employment counseling
- immigration and global mobility
- investigations
- disputes

### Nice to have
- fintech
- payments
- regulated financial services
- AI or automation

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