Senior Legal Counsel
Typeform
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Senior
About the role
- Negotiate & advise
- Lead complex, high-value vendor and customer agreements.
- Partner with enterprise stakeholders (e.g., HiBob, Salesforce) in native-level English.
- Give practical, solution-oriented advice that balances risk with business impact.
- Make contracts & processes smarter
- Own and improve Omnea and other procurement/contract workflows, cutting cycle times and clarifying responsibilities.
- Build governance processes that track agreements, renewals, and obligations—without slowing teams down.
- Enable enterprise sales
- Help build the foundation for a Deal Desk, so Account Executives can focus on selling, not paperwork.
- Structure deals, define guardrails, and support Sales leadership in scaling upmarket operations.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives
- Partner with the Head of Legal to land Typeform’s legal strategy and support compliance (privacy, risk, governance).
- Drive cross-functional projects from idea to delivery.
- Run trainings and awareness programs to raise commercial and legal literacy across the company.
- Be a business partner
- Connect Legal, Sales, Procurement, Finance, and Product.
- Anticipate challenges and proactively propose solutions.
- Bring a service mindset but challenge processes and risks where needed.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer (US or EU) with 4–6 years’ experience.
- SaaS or tech experience, ideally with exposure beyond pure legal work into commercial and operational areas.
- Experienced in negotiating complex enterprise deals.
- Process-oriented with a track record of simplifying workflows and governance.
- Commercially savvy—you understand the business, not just the clauses.
- Excellent project management skills—you get things done across teams.
- Trusted advisor with confidence to influence at senior levels.
- Tech-savvy, detail-oriented, flexible, curious.
- Familiarity with privacy, compliance, or risk frameworks.
- Experience setting up or supporting a Deal Desk.
- International exposure across the US and EU markets.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
negotiationcontract managementprocurement workflowsproject managementlegal strategycompliance frameworksrisk managementSaaSenterprise salesDeal Desk
Soft skills
solution-orientedservice mindsetcross-functional collaborationinfluencingproactive problem-solvingcommercial awarenessflexibilitycuriositydetail-orientedtrusted advisor
Certifications
qualified lawyer (US or EU)