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About the role
Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers, from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses, across a wide range of industries.
Motive is seeking a Senior Counsel, Employment to provide practical, strategic legal guidance across the employee lifecycle for a distributed, multi-jurisdictional workforce. Reporting to the AGC, Corporate, this role will advise People, managers, business leaders, and executives on employment matters, manage legal risk, and help build scalable employment policies and processes.
What you'll do
- Advise People, managers, business leaders, and executives on employment matters, including hiring, performance management, employee relations, accommodations, leaves, investigations, discipline, compensation, classification, restrictive covenants, and separations.
- Provide guidance on federal, state, provincial, local, international and other applicable employment laws and regulations.
- Draft, review, and update employment-related agreements, policies, procedures, training materials, and communications, with a comprehensive annual review and update cycle.
- Partner with People, Recruiting, and business stakeholders to develop practical, consistent, and legally compliant approaches to workforce and employee-relations matters.
- Manage and oversee employment-related claims, agency charges, audits, investigations, and litigation in partnership with internal and external counsel.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments and recommend updates to policies, processes, training, and business practices.
- Support workforce programs, organizational changes, and other cross-functional legal projects and strategic business priorities.
- Manage outside counsel effectively and help ensure matters are handled efficiently and with appropriate risk calibration.
What they're looking for
- J.D. and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. state.
- 10+ years of relevant employment-law experience in a law firm and in-house legal department.
- Deep knowledge of employment law and demonstrated experience advising on employee relations, contingent workers, restrictive covenants, workplace investigations, wage and hour matters, leaves, accommodations, and employment-related disputes.
- Experience supporting a distributed or multi-jurisdictional workforce across multiple U.S. states as well as international jurisdictions.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to provide clear, practical, and risk-calibrated advice.
- Strong technical drafting skills for preparing employment-related agreements.
- Experience advising on equity incentive plans and equity matters across a distributed workforce.
- Ability to manage complex matters independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and external counsel.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, close attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
- A self-motivated individual with a solutions-oriented, low-ego approach and willingness to contribute beyond a narrowly defined specialty.
- AI-first perspective, with interest in building and leveraging AI-driven tools.
- A great sense of humor and no ego, sharing the vision that the legal team can be both a center of excellence and fun.
Nice to have
- Experience in a technology or high-growth company.
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Motive benefits
◉ Remote policy · in their words
“We are a remote-first organization made up of more than 3,000 employees located around the world. While some of our employees are more effective working remotely ... members also have the option to work on-site at any of our eight global office locations if they prefer.”
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