Director - Legal

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Are You One of Us

GEP is seeking an experienced Associate General Counsel, Immigration, to join its team in Clark, New Jersey. The successful candidate will lead GEP's global immigration legal and operational function, with responsibility for three core immigration programs: U.S. Immigration, Global Immigration, and the Business Visitor Visa Program. The attorney will develop and execute immigration strategy, advise the business on workforce mobility and business travel, and provide legal oversight of immigration compliance across the countries where GEP operates. The role is both strategic and hands-on: setting policy and program direction while serving as the escalation point for complex cases, audits, and regulatory developments.

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership and Operations

• Lead the strategy, governance, and day-to-day oversight of GEP's three immigration programs: U.S. Immigration, Global Immigration, and the Business Visitor Visa Program, ensuring consistent standards, appropriate controls, clear ownership, and effective coordination across Legal, HR, business stakeholders, and external providers.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of three paralegals; set priorities, review work product, and ensure quality and timely case handling.
• Build scalable workflows, case-tracking, and reporting; define metrics on cycle time, spend, and compliance.
• Manage relationships, budgets, and performance of external immigration counsel and vendors worldwide, and coordinate local counsel in each jurisdiction.
• Direct legal strategy and provide oversight for complex U.S. immigration matters, including H-1B, L-1, O-1, TN, E-3, PERM, and employment-based green card sponsorship, handling matters directly or through external counsel based on case complexity and the approved operating model.

2. Strategy and Advisory

• Develop and execute a global immigration strategy aligned with GEP's talent, client delivery, and business expansion goals.
• Advise HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and business leaders on visa options, timelines, costs, and risks for hiring, relocation, and cross-border assignments.
• Partner with internal stakeholders on the immigration implications of business travel, remote work, secondments, and new market entry.
• Partner with HR and business leaders to assess immigration implications arising from promotions, compensation changes, changes in job duties or work location, remote-work arrangements, reorganizations, and other workforce changes before implementation.
• Monitor legislative, regulatory, and policy changes worldwide; assess impact and translate changes into practical guidance, stakeholder communications, training, workflow updates, and compliance controls.

3. Compliance and Risk Management

• Provide legal oversight and subject-matter guidance regarding employer immigration compliance, including I-9, E-Verify, Public Access Files, Labor Condition Application requirements, and comparable obligations outside the United States, in partnership with the responsible HR and business teams. Design and maintain immigration policies, procedures, and internal controls; lead periodic internal audits and respond to government inquiries, site visits, and audits.
• Assess and mitigate risk in complex or sensitive matters, including denials, RFEs, status issues, and business immigration compliance concerns.
• Oversee global business-travel and short-term work authorization compliance, including assessment frameworks, approval controls, business visitor visa processes, and escalation of higher-risk travel activities.

4. Employee Experience

• Serve as a trusted advisor to employees and managers, communicating clearly on sensitive status and timing matters.
• Create training and self-service resources for HR, recruiters, and managers on immigration processes and compliance.

5. Technology, Innovation, and Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement appropriate case-management technology, workflow automation, AI-enabled tools, and employee self-service solutions to improve efficiency, data quality, transparency, and consistency while preserving legal judgment, confidentiality, and compliance controls.
• Drive continuous improvement by standardizing intake, review, escalation, reporting, knowledge-management, and document-retention practices across U.S. and global immigration processes.

Requirements

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school; active bar membership in New Jersey or another U.S. jurisdiction, or eligibility for in-house counsel registration in New Jersey.
• 12+ years of immigration law experience, with significant U.S. and/or global business immigration expertise, at a law firm, in-house legal department, or a combination.
• Experience managing global immigration programs and coordinating with counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience with immigration case management and workflow technology, and with process automation or AI-enabled legal tools.
• People-management experience, ideally leading paralegals or legal operations staff.
• Strong judgment, with the ability to balance legal risk and business needs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to advise non-lawyers clearly and concisely.
• Comfort working across time zones in a fast-paced, global organization.
• Strong business acumen: ability to legal issues into actionable guidance for non-legal stakeholders and make principled, risk-based recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with audits, government investigations, or mergers and acquisitions immigration due diligence.

Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications.

Additional Compensation:Eligible for a performance-based bonus tied to individual and company performance.

Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) with a 3% company match, paid time off, company holidays, and professional development opportunities