Legal Counsel

About the role

We are building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of investment products. As we scale and navigate an incoming wave of new regulations, we need a sharp, experienced legal mind to join our growing Legal team. This is not a standard in-house legal role — you will work on highly creative, non-standard, and intellectually stimulating legal work in a fast-moving, largely uncharted space.

What you'll do

• Own the contract work, drafting contracts from scratch in novel investment products where templates rarely exist
• Review and negotiate agreements received from partners, clients and counterparties, representing lemon.markets' interests with confidence
• Enable product development by acting as a critical legal checkpoint for ideas from Product and Sales teams
• Monitor regulatory developments in securities law, capital markets law and banking law, translating changes into concrete contract language
• Support the General Counsel in shaping the company's legal strategy, including European expansion
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Compliance, AML, Data Protection and other teams
• Advise senior leadership as subject-matter expert and deputy to the General Counsel

What you'll need

• Fully qualified German lawyer (Volljurist) with 3 to 8 years of post-qualification experience
• Solid, hands-on expertise in securities law, capital markets law, and/or banking law, ideally from a major law firm, Fintech or Banking environment
• Strong foundations in contract law and comfort drafting agreements without templates
• German and English at C1 level (near-native) for negotiation and advisory at the highest level
• Genuine autonomy; you drive tasks forward without waiting to be told
• Ability to translate complex legal questions into plain language for engineers, product managers and business teams
• Resilience and creativity; you see absence of precedent as an opportunity to think outside the box
• Comfort working in multicultural, interdisciplinary teams with strong collaboration across functions

What they offer

• Competitive salary based on your experience
• Flexible working hours with core hours 12:00-16:00
• Part-time friendly (minimum 25 hours/week)
• Hybrid work from Germany; 4+ days/month on-site in Berlin
• Mentorship, stretch opportunities, and annual learning budget
• Deutschlandticket sponsorship, 50% off Beatvest, and up to 60 days workation per year in the EU