Legal Counsel - Central Europe

About the role

Join us as a Legal Counsel for Central Europe and help us provide robust, day-to-day legal support across our fast-growing central markets (Netherlands, Germany and Austria), with a dedicated focus on the Netherlands. You will work closely with the team to de-risk our operations and enable local market growth and partnerships.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of the Netherlands legal scope: Act as the primary local legal point of contact, ensuring timely and high-quality support for local teams.
• Support the German and Austrian markets: Partner with our Senior Legal Expert to handle strategic legal topics and ensure business continuity in our central markets.
• Handle commercial and product topics: Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, while ensuring legal compliance of new local products as well as managing local disputes and corporate formalities.
• Provide pragmatic legal guidance: Deliver clear legal analyses for local future developments and unblock business initiatives safely.
• Manage disputes: Handle pre-litigation and litigation matters when relevant to protect Qonto's interests.

What you'll need

• At least 2 years of experience as a generalist in-house legal counsel, ideally within a tech/scale-up environment or a broader corporate setting.
• Strong experience in negotiating commercial contracts and handling local corporate formalities.
• Professional proficiency in Dutch (min. C2 level) and in English (min. C1 level).
• Ability to provide pragmatic, actionable legal advice in a fast-moving environment.
• Comfortable managing multiple inbound requests from various local stakeholders, communicating clearly, and escalating when necessary.

Nice to have

• Exposure to banking or payments law.
• Fluent German.