About:
GoodWorker, is an exciting new technology start-up, with a social agenda, set up with one dream in mind; help transform the lives of blue-collar workers the world over, by leveraging data decentralized technologies; our focus is to start with helping them advance their careers and ultimately to enable them to improve the quality of lives for themselves & their families.
Role:
The legal team is in search of a corporate lawyer to handle a wide range of legal issues that arise from business operations, sales and marketing along with employee matters. This role will also be to set up legal processes and policies for the Indian businesses.
In this position, working from Bangalore, you will be reporting to Head of Finance & Legal. This role will closely collaborate with several internal teams to help identify risks and thereafter work on mitigating such risks. This role will advise the business in alignment with our commercial, corporate and strategic objectives, and risk profile, in a manner that supports the business objective while simultaneously also being the gatekeeper.
Primary roles and responsibilities:
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating all forms of contracts;
- Being responsible for management of the full contract/ deal lifecycle, including communicating status of the contracts;
- Overseeing approvals from the relevant teams (such as sales, finance, tax, insurance, technology, security etc) and working with them to take the contracts to closure;
- Analysing requests/communications from the businesses, functions and other stakeholders to provide legal advice;
- Maintaining a repository and summary of contracts with all key terms and conditions;
- Working on ensuring we are in compliance with any restrictive or other regulations as committed in the contracts;
- Providing ancillary advice on various issues such as early contract terminations, notations, price changes, renewals, amendments, customer tights and ensuring all modifications are documented properly;
- Assisting in any due diligence or M&A transactions;
- Working with and managing external counsel as and when necessary;
- Identify opportunities or potential risks to GW’s business;
- Keeping abreast with updates in various Acts and regulations and analyze the impact on the company.
Required qualifications:
- 3-5 years PQE lawyer with solid law firm experience.
- Being adaptable, flexible, pragmatic and solution oriented. Must be willing to work in the digital and information age and should be prepared to use technology tools.
- Should articulate, with great communication drafting skills and is highly effective in English.
- Should be proactive, resourceful, independent, organized, team player, able to prioritize effectively to meet deadlines, address risk, achieve results, should have strong interpersonal skills and an ability to foster/manage relationships across multiple departments.
- And most importantly, they should be easy-going, fun-loving with passions outside of work.
How to Apply:
Candidates may apply here (click here).
