Lead, Employment Counsel

About Ramp

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.

The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.

We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.

The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.

If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

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 as your base load, cover non-U.S. jurisdictions as needed, and own immigration and global mobility. You will partner directly with People, Talent, Total Rewards, Finance, Tax, Equity Admin, Compliance, and business leaders, and you will manage outside counsel in jurisdictions where we do not hold the expertise in house. We are a small, high-leverage team supporting a company that moves quickly, so you will cover a lot of ground and be trusted to run matters independently.

What You'll Do

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

Immigration and global mobility: Collaborate with the People team on the immigration program, including work authorization outside the U.S. Set and communicate the sponsorship policy, manage outside immigration counsel and case volume, and partner with Talent on offer-stage decisions. Support relocations, cross-border remote work requests, and business travel, and work with Finance and Tax on permanent establishment and mobility tax exposure

Investigations: Collaborate with the People team 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 the local-law variants of each

Transactions: Support 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

What You Need

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, including wage and hour, leaves and accommodations, investigations, performance management, and separations

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, 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. You can turn an employment law question into guidance a manager can act on in one reading

High judgment on sensitive and confidential matters, and the steadiness to advise on them under time pressure

Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and processes are still being built, and a 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

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

Benefits available to all full-time Ramp employees (Global)

Flexible PTO

Centralized home-office equipment ordering

Health and wellness stipend

Budget for intra-office travel

Weekly coffee stipend

United States

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

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, with additional time available at reduced pay

Employee Assistance Program and virtual care through Lumino Health

United Kingdom

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 with additional time available at reduced pay

Referral Instructions

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