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Ramp is building smart infrastructure for finance teams, automating how over $200B in annualized spend flows through 70,000+ companies. The company handles payment authorization, risk flagging, spend categorization, and financial close processes for high-growth businesses.
You will join Ramp's Legal team as Employment Counsel, a generalist role with broad scope covering U.S. employment law as your primary focus, with responsibility for non-U.S. jurisdictions and global immigration and mobility matters as needed. You will be a trusted advisor to People, Talent, Total Rewards, Finance, Tax, Equity Admin, Compliance, and business leaders, managing outside counsel in jurisdictions where Ramp lacks in-house expertise.
Key responsibilities include:
• Day-to-day employment counseling: advise on hiring, worker classification, compensation, leaves and accommodations, performance management, discipline, and separations
• Immigration and global mobility: collaborate with People on the immigration program, set sponsorship policy, manage outside immigration counsel, support relocations and cross-border remote work requests, and partner with Finance and Tax on permanent establishment and mobility tax exposure
• Investigations: collaborate on internal investigations and advise on findings and outcomes
• Disputes: handle demand letters, agency charges, arbitrations, and litigation with outside counsel
• Agreements and templates: own offer letters, employment agreements, separation and release agreements, contractor and consultant agreements, restrictive covenants, and local-law variants
• Transactions: support employment and immigration diligence for M&A and new-market entry
• Build for scale: produce manager training, policies, self-serve guidance, and repeatable processes as Ramp expands globally
You will operate in a small, high-leverage legal team supporting a fast-moving company, covering significant ground and running matters independently.
REQUIREMENTS:
• 8+ years practicing employment law, combining 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, including wage and hour, leaves and accommodations, investigations, performance management, and separations
• Working knowledge of employment law outside the U.S. and ability to triage cross-border questions quickly
• Hands-on experience with U.S. business immigration and global mobility, including running a sponsorship program and managing immigration counsel at volume
• Demonstrated ability to independently run multiple time-sensitive matters
• Exceptional written and verbal communication; ability to translate employment law questions into actionable manager guidance
• High judgment on sensitive and confidential matters; steadiness under time pressure
• Comfort in fast-paced environments where priorities shift and processes are still being built; bias toward action
NICE TO HAVES:
• Experience at a fintech, payments, or regulated financial services company
• Experience standing up employment infrastructure in a new country, including EOR-to-entity transitions and works council or employee representative consultation
• Employment experience across EMEA, APAC, LATAM, or Canada
• Track record of using AI or automation to eliminate manual legal work
