General Counsel

The role

You will lead the legal team and act as the primary legal advisor to the leadership team. You will own the full legal function including commercial contracting, data protection, corporate governance, and regulatory risk.

What you will do

• Manage and coach a team of 3 lawyers
• Set the legal team's strategy and goals
• Oversee corporate governance, contracts, compliance and regulatory risk management
• Provide legal advice and risk assessment across the business
• Ensure efficient internal processes and policies are in place
• Monitor changes in the legislative and regulatory environment across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the EU
• Support Sales with quoting, offer and contracting processes
• Partner with Information Security on cybersecurity related legal and regulatory matters
• Manage the relationship between the external DPO and internal teams
• Coordinate and manage external counsel

Required qualifications

• 8+ years post-qualification experience
• 3-5 years in a commercial or contracting environment
• Proven experience leading and developing a team
• Experience in SaaS or another technology business
• Strong track record supporting Sales teams and commercial deal cycles
• Deep data protection law expertise
• 2nd German State Examination (Volljurist)
• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken)
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Pragmatic, business oriented and hands on
• Well organized, detail conscious, and able to manage time and priorities independently

Nice to have

• experience in cybersecurity
• working alongside Information Security teams
• exposure to intellectual property law
• experience working with distributed/remote teams

Benefits

• 33 days paid time off (PTO)
• Access to Open Up
• corporate discounts
• Parental leave
• Individual Development Budget
• Wellness Benefit
• Healthcare and pension plans
• Virtual events
• collaborative team activities
• opportunities for local meet ups

About the company

SoSafe is a human risk management provider that uses an awareness platform to provide training and simulations on cybersecurity and data protection. It is a security awareness scale-up backed by Highland Europe and Global Founders Capital.