Lead Legal Counsel, South Asia

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer more productive and more profitable. For the first time ever safety operations and finance teams can manage their drivers vehicles equipment and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100000 customers from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses across a wide range of industries including transportation and logistics construction energy field service manufacturing agriculture food and beverage retail and the public sector.

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Who We Are:

Motive builds technology to improve the safety productivity and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking driver safety compliance maintenance spend management and more. Motive serves more than 120000 businesses across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics construction oil and gas food and beverage field service agriculture passenger transit and delivery.

Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.

About the Role:

The Lead Counsel (Pakistan) will be Motives primary in-country legal owner responsible for end-to-end legal support across Pakistan & India operations.

They will advise on primarily on employment matters commercial contracts litigation strategy and management compliance programs (including whistleblowing and investigations) data protection regulatory engagement and outside counsel oversight. This is a hands-on role that requires comfort operating as the sole local attorney while collaborating closely with global Legal Compliance HR Procurement Finance and business leaders.

What Youll Do:

• Advise internal clients on legal matters relevant to Motives international operations in Pakistan and India majority of it being in employment commercial contracts corporate governance litigation compliance privacy and other cross-border activities.
• Lead employee relations matters including investigations reporting actions templates policies training materials compliance and litigation. Lead continuous improvements of forms policies and processes.
• Lead investigations into allegations of fraud theft or policy breaches; coordinate with HR/Audit; prepare evidence files and direct criminal/civil filings as required.
• Assist with Pakistan and India subsidiary governance including maintaining corporate records ensuring compliance and streamlining processes.
• Negotiate draft and review a broad range of commercial contracts including contractor agreements master service agreements and licensing agreements.
• Assist in managing commercial litigation disputes and settlement.
• Monitor legal and regulatory changes in Pakistan and India ensuring Motives policies and practices remain current and compliant.
• Assist with the successful completion of major programs and projects as applicable.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across the Company.
• Drive continuous improvements scalability and operational excellence in legal processes and execution.

What Were Looking For:

• 8 to 10 years of practice at a leading law firm and in-house experience managing complex international legal environments with expertise in two or more legal areas (e.g. employment corporate governance commercial contracts or litigation).
• A law degree (JD/LLB or equivalent) in Pakistan is required.
• Experience in India is a plus.
• Highly motivated reliable flexible deadline-oriented and able to manage multiple tasks independently.
• An owners mentality with the ability to execute in a fast-paced environment juggle conflicting priorities to meet deadlines adapt quickly to change and think creatively of solutions.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motives core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds experiences abilities and perspectives.

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