Director of Legal (6 Months FTC, 3days/week)

London based (Hybrid)

Part-Time: 3 days/week

Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace – our award-winning, online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal. Founded in 2017, our technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car, generating thousands of monthly car sales and helping us to grow to a team of more than 500 people across our London and Brighton offices.

About the role

We’re looking for a senior lawyer to join our legal team on a fixed term basis for 6 months. You will be responsible for proactively tackling the diverse legal challenges faced by a rapidly scaling tech company. Reporting into the CFO, you will be involved in a variety of high profile and strategic work as well as leading a 4 person legal team, made up of a Paralegal, two Legal Counsels and one Senior Legal Counsel. You will lead in providing legal and compliance support to teams from across the business, from brand and digital marketing to payments.

Responsibilities:

• Commercial Agreements & Negotiations: Draft and negotiate key commercial agreements, partnership deals, and licences that fuel our business growth.
• Legal Compliance & Regulatory Affairs: Managing our FCA regulated activities in the payments space and liaising with regulators (e.g. the ASA or the ICO) when required.  
• People Team Support: Partnering with the People Team to ensure our employment practices are compliant. Advising on employee contracts, terminations, and other HR initiatives.
• Intellectual Property Management: Overseeing our IP portfolio in collaboration with external advisors.
• Legal Team: Contributing to guiding and mentoring the legal team, managing their workflow including through our legal Helpdesk.
• Corporate: Managing co-sec activities and supporting the CFO on corporate matters, including employee equity and corporate transactions.

What we are looking for 

• You will be a qualified lawyer with a significant post-qualification experience along with managing a legal team.
• Ideally, you will have some experience in all the following areas:
• SAAS agreements
• Corporate transactions (including fundraising)
• Employee equity
• Employment law
• Data privacy law
• You will have extensive in-house experience, preferably within tech businesses or VC-backed scale-ups.
• You are able to give strategic legal advice but combine this with pragmatism – enabling the business to make decisions based on its risk appetite. 
• You are a strong communicator, able to make complex legal issues digestible.

• A competitive salary
• A learning budget
• BUPA health insurance
• Discounted dental through BUPA
• Discounted gym membership through BUPA
• Hybrid working from home (approximately 1-2 days in the office a week)
• Pension scheme
• Regular social events

Equal opportunities statement

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all employees. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where people can maximise their full potential. We believe our workforce should reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.