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About the role
- Senior Legal Counsel providing legal advice for product and business development in a dynamic tax app company. Guiding compliance with EU regulations while enabling market growth.
Responsibilities
- Be the dedicated legal partner for specific product and business development teams, advising on the end-to-end lifecycle of new services and features.
- Lead legal workstreams for new market entries or product launches, ensuring all local regulatory, consumer protection, and commercial law requirements are met.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial and platform-related agreements, aligning with both risk management and business enablement.
- Proactively collaborate with Compliance to embed regulatory requirements (especially consumer and data protection laws) into product and commercial development.
- Support cross-functional legal initiatives and contribute to broader strategic projects that shape our legal operations and frameworks.
- Translate complex legal issues into accessible, actionable guidance for product, design, and customer teams, and promote a culture of self-service and legal enablement.
- Manage external legal counsel in multiple jurisdictions, ensuring efficient and quality legal support on cross-border topics.
Requirements
- Fully qualified lawyer in Germany (Zweites Staatsexamen) with 5+ years of post-qualification experience, including at least part of it in-house at a B2C tech, fintech, or platform business.
- Proven experience supporting product and commercial teams, with a focus on EU consumer law, e-commerce, and platform regulation.
- Strong track record of handling cross-border legal topics, especially in Spain and the UK, with the ability to collaborate with local counsel and navigate jurisdictional nuances.
- Demonstrated ability to draft and negotiate commercial agreements independently and pragmatically.
- Solid understanding of GDPR and other relevant compliance regulations, with practical experience advising on their application in digital services.
- You are proactive, solutions-oriented, and can communicate complex legal topics in a clear and constructive way to cross-functional stakeholders.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, international environment and enjoy taking ownership of your projects and priorities.
- Business fluent in English; German is a strong plus. Additional languages like Spanish are a bonus.
- Familiarity with generative AI tools
Benefits
- A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals.
- Holistic well-being with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga.
- A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services that you can use and roll over as flexibly as you like.
- Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create.
- 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours.
- A generous learning budget to support your personal and professional development and guidance from our internal L&D experts.
- Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year. Just align with your team, and then enjoy your trip.
- Plenty of opportunities to socialise as a team. In addition to internal meetups, our international team hosts regular get-togethers—virtually and in person when possible.
- Free tax declaration filing, of course, through the Taxfix app—and internal support for all personal tax-related questions.
- Have a four-legged friend in your life? We’re happy to have dogs join us in the office.
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