General Counsel
Emma – The Sleep Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Frankfurt • 🇩🇪 Germany
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SeniorLead
About the role
- Provide strategic legal counsel to the CEOs and leadership team, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations.
- Manage and mentor a team of 6-8 legal professionals, promoting collaboration and high performance.
- Identify and mitigate legal risks in contracts, intellectual property, employment, and regulatory compliance.
- Supervise litigation and work with external counsel.
- Develop and manage compliance programs, ensuring adherence to laws on anti-corruption, data privacy, antitrust, and more.
- Lead contract negotiation and review to protect the company’s legal interests.
- Oversee key policies and procedures to ensure strong ethical leadership and compliance with governance principles.
Requirements
- Legal Expertise: Extensive experience in corporate law, litigation, compliance, risk management with a deep understanding of how legal strategies impact business operations.
- Proven Experience: At least 12 years of legal experience, including 5 years in a senior in-house role with a demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams.
- Team Leadership: A strong track record of leading, mentoring, and inspiring teams of legal professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, growth, and high performance.
- Business-Oriented Mindset: A strategic, hands-on leader who influences and aligns legal strategies with business objectives and works closely with founders and C-Suite to drive success. You thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and make smart, prioritized decisions to address high-impact legal issues.
- Effective Communicator: Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels and across departments, ensuring clear and efficient legal counsel company wide.
Benefits
- We offer a welcoming and collaborative environment were we are honest and direct. We prefer no ego and no politics. We want to excel as a team.
- We know that Emma isn’t for everyone. But if, like us, you love the thrill of a challenge, chase accelerated growth and thrive in driving change: stop looking further. We're the team that will make you discover the top of your game.
- You will become part of a group of ambitious and inspiring leaders and will be supported in your personal development. Just as we want you to make Emma grow and succeed, we will make you grow and succeed.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
corporate lawlitigationcompliancerisk managementcontract negotiationintellectual propertyemployment lawregulatory complianceanti-corruptiondata privacy
Soft skills
team leadershipmentoringcollaborationstrategic thinkingcommunicationpresentation skillsinfluencingdecision makingproblem solvinghigh performance