Legal Counsel (m/f/d)
Posted May 6, 2026
Your tasks
As our first in-house Legal Counsel, you will be a trusted business partner across the whole organisation. Your responsibilities will include:
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Providing pragmatic, commercially sound legal advice across all business areas, including e-commerce, marketing, product, supply chain, and HR. - Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of contracts, including supplier agreements, distribution contracts, agency agreements, NDAs, and influencer/creator agreements. - Managing and advising on data protection matters (GDPR), working closely with our Data Protection Officer and external counsel where needed. - Supporting the company on corporate law matters, including equity compensation programmes and corporate governance. - Monitoring and advising on regulatory developments relevant to our business, including product compliance, labelling requirements, and EU cosmetics regulations. - Handling IP matters, including trademark registrations, enforcement actions, and licensing agreements. - Managing relationships with external law firms, ensuring cost-effective and high-quality support. - Proactively identifying legal risks and developing scalable processes, templates, and guidelines to protect the business as we grow. - Supporting M&A activity, fundraising, and investor-related matters as required. ### Your Profile
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You hold a fully qualified German legal degree (Volljurist/in, 2. Staatsexamen) or an equivalent qualification from another jurisdiction. - You have 7+ years of professional experience, with a solid foundation gained at a reputable law firm, ideally complemented by first in-house experience at a startup, scale-up, or consumer company. - You have a broad commercial law background and are comfortable working across multiple legal disciplines simultaneously. - You bring experience in contract law, GDPR/data protection, and IP – experience in e-commerce, consumer goods, or retail is a strong plus. - You are a self-starter who is comfortable operating as a generalist in a fast-paced environment with limited external support. - You have excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to communicate complex legal issues in a clear, business-friendly way. - You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and understand that great legal counsel enables the business rather than slows it down. - You are fluent in both German and English (written and spoken) – our working language is English. ###