Senior Commercial Counsel

HiveMQ’s Vision for this role:

This role is primarily focused on commercial contracts including customer negotiations and implementation of adequate processes, with a bit of "everything else" that comes up as an in-house lawyer in a scale-up company. As our second lawyer on board, you’ll get exposure to every level and area of the business working closely with our Head of Legal, sales, customer success, product management, people and engineering teams, and being part of an agile, growing and creative organization helping to manage its legal risk profile. Your tasks will contain IT, contract and commercial law, product counsel work, data protection topics, compliance, IP law and other fields of legal and commercial topics. In this role you will have the opportunity to make many aspects of it your own based on your interests and can make a true difference. You will help to develop and manage legal processes and an adequate organization across the business as we scale for growth.

And finally, the "only constant at a scale-up is change", and so you need to be a creative self-starter who is comfortable with change, who has a hands-on approach in day-to-day work, and who enjoys a fast pace. Come build something fun with us!

You will ..

• Draft, review, adapt, and negotiate commercial agreements with customers, prospects, partners and suppliers in close cooperation with our sales organization.
• Help the organization, its products and business models evolve by providing proactive guidance on legal and regulatory requirements and dependencies.
• Monitor changes of relevant laws and provide pragmatic advice on implementation options.
• Maintain and optimize the company’s general terms and conditions to represent a merchantable risk profile and to remain in line with the operational processes.
• Standardize and automate the contracting process for low-complexity deals.
• Maintain internal and contractual compliance with regards to data protection and privacy laws.
• Accompany product development from a regulatory point of view.
• Explore and suggest new or modified business models in line with regulatory adaptations.
• Provide advice and guidance on general commercial and economic law.

Your profile..

• You are a fully qualified lawyer under German law (or other common law or European law jurisdiction) holding both state exams or equivalent, proficient in commercial contract law.
• You are experienced in drafting and negotiating commercial agreements in the IT/IP landscape (license agreements, SLAs, XaaS agreements).
• You are used to working with contractual documents under foreign jurisdictions, specifically under US law and have experience in negotiating agreements with US customers and partners.
• You have strong negotiation skills and a track record in playing an active role to negotiate high-volume contracts for complex products.
• You are conversant in data protection and privacy regulation and are used to independently manage GDPR compliance requirements.
• You effectively and proactively communicate in English and German, verbally and in writing, across all seniorities and functions and are able to draft and negotiate agreements in both languages.
• You are well organized, comfortable in complex environments, and open to work in a globally distributed, remote first organization.
• You are conversant in software and technology related business models, trends and know the respective contractual terms.
• You have previous experience with legal tech and contract management applications and are well aware of various automation and standardization processes within legal teams.
• You align with the HiveMQ values.