Legal Counsel

About the role

We are looking for a lawyer with a truly innovative mindset to lead the legal guidance on a range of topics related to key merchants and partners. You'll be given a lot of responsibility and autonomy to innovate the legal problem space from day one. For your key commercial and contractual projects, you'll be the go-to legal contact and source of truth.

What you'll do

• Key contact person for major commercial, contractual and partnership matters.
• Support in improving tools and actively participate in setting up automatization and standardisation of processes for the legal problem space.
• Draft and develop commercial templates, playbooks and negotiate key commercial contracts (with merchants, partners, payment service providers).
• Provide advice on commercial legal aspects of merchant cooperation, partnerships and third-party service providers.
• Closely liaise with non-legal stakeholders and legal colleagues from different teams to drive and solve relevant topics from a commercial legal perspective.
• Report to the CLO of Mondu and train your consulting and leadership skills.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of relevant experience gained at a leading international law firm or within a fast-paced in-house legal team.
• Fully qualified to practice law in Germany (second bar exam or equivalent European qualification).
• Excellent communication skills in both German and English (C1+).
• Relevant experience in drafting, negotiating and reviewing commercial contracts.
• Experience working closely with product, risk and commercial teams in dynamic, technology-driven settings.
• A hands-on mentality, able to work efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced, fast-growing environment.

Nice to have

• Previous experience in financial services, banking and/or AML.

What they offer

• 28 vacation days per year (increasing 1 day every year up to 30 if the contract would be extended).
• Hybrid working model with office in the center of Berlin 3 days a week.
• Workation policy allowing up to 6 weeks every year of work outside of Germany.
• Generous learning and development budget.
• Subsidised gym membership, €54 per month towards the Deutschland Ticket, tax relief for Business Bike scheme.