Legal Operations Analyst

We’re looking for a Legal Operations Analyst to join our growing team at Lighthouse. In this role, you’ll optimize our product development and delivery processes and accelerate our ability to serve the world’s best and brightest talent in the startup and technology industry. You'll be the backbone that ensures our legal and sales teams can move fast while maintaining the precision required for changing our customers’ lives.

You might be a good fit if:

• You have experience or strong interest in business immigration and/or legal writing for employment visas (O-1A, H-1B, TN, EB-1A etc).
• OR you have operational experience, particularly within a startup learning new skills and working cross‑functionally.
• Attention to detail is your status quo, particularly when it comes to identifying and designing processes.
• Want to learn how to build and use new AI‑enabled technology products and automate processes. Specific interest in learning about business immigration and visa preparation.
• Have high agency, especially for independent project management.
• You will succeed in this role if you’re passionate about startups, founders, and technology — in areas undergoing major transformation like artificial intelligence, robotics, biotech, manufacturing, aerospace, and more — and have a maniacal customer service focus.

We do not expect candidates for this role to have previous immigration experience or a legal background. Previous startup experience is welcome, but we are most interested in someone who can demonstrate the requisite skills and an interest to learn.

Culture

• Lighthouse is a technology‑led company. We frequently ask ourselves “How can we make this faster, simpler, easier?”
• We’re intentionally meeting‑light and work in weekly sprints, with team‑wide meetings only on Monday and Fridays. We entrust you to manage your time.
• We are and seek low‑ego, high‑throughput people who are a pleasure to be around.
• We pride ourselves on attention to detail and ability to do "finished work" — whether it's a project, document, or code, you make it letter‑perfect.
• We ask why every day. We're constantly making improvements to our processes and encouraging feedback.
• Genuine interest in startups, technology, and enabling global talent to build in the U.S.

What we’ll trust you to do:

Your primary focus will be supporting our customers' visa application journeys, including:

• Preparing and managing multiple visa applications simultaneously — we’ll expect excellent project management skills.
• Establish metrics and monitoring systems to continuously measure and improve product development and process performance.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive quality gates throughout our customer application preparation lifecycle.
• Collaborating with engineering and design to gather necessary information and documentation, maintaining clear communication throughout the process.
• Serve as the operational liaison between legal operations, engineering, design, and sales teams.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of our document preparation platform and internal processes based on customer feedback and operational insights.

Pay and Benefits

• We sponsor visas, obviously.
• Competitive base and equity, scales with experience.
• Equipment/office stipend.
• Bi‑annual team off‑sites in cool places.
• In person in SF preferred, hybrid possible.

Lighthouse is an equal opportunity workplace; we welcome people from all backgrounds, communities, and experiences. To apply, share your details at this link.