Senior Legal Counsel (all)

1NCE

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

1NCE is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join its Legal team, reporting to the General Counsel. This is a hands-on, high-autonomy role focused on complex commercial and data protection matters. The role involves drafting, negotiating, and managing a broad portfolio of customer and vendor agreements, with a strong emphasis on technology and IoT-specific contract structures. Additionally, the position will play a substantive role in 1NCE's privacy compliance program, anchored in GDPR and extending to other key jurisdictions. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a small legal team supporting global operations, with a broad and shifting mandate, sound judgment on prioritization, and a genuine interest in the IoT, telecommunications, software, and cloud space. Regular interaction with senior stakeholders, ownership of significant transactions and disputes, and the ability to act as a trusted business partner are expected.

Requirements

Fully qualified lawyer in Germany (Volljurist/in); Syndikusrechtsanwalt status preferred or obtainable.
Minimum 5 years of post-qualification experience covering commercial / technology law and data protection, ideally combining law firm and in-house experience.
Strong track record in drafting and negotiating customer-facing commercial agreements across multiple jurisdictions.
Strong working knowledge of GDPR and demonstrated experience operationalising privacy compliance — e.g. ROPA, privacy notices, consent and cookie mechanisms, internal policies and data subject request processes — not solely in a contract-review context.
Experience handling contentious commercial matters and negotiating settlements with customers, partners or suppliers.
Comfortable working in a small team with a broad mandate and global scope, with a hands-on attitude and sound judgement on prioritisation.
Genuine interest in the IoT, telecommunications, software and cloud space; prior in-house or law firm experience in these sectors is strongly preferred.
Fluent in German and English — written and spoken. Both languages are used daily.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing multi-jurisdictional customer contract portfolios across Europe, the US and APAC (including Singapore).
Familiarity with IoT-specific contract structures, connectivity platform agreements, or MVNO/MVNE arrangements.
Working familiarity with non-EU privacy regimes (e.g. US state privacy laws, PDPA Singapore) at a level sufficient to coordinate with external counsel.
Deeper knowledge of recent and emerging EU tech regulation (AI Act, Data Act, ePrivacy, CRA) and their practical impact on commercial and product workflows.
Exposure to international data transfer compliance (SCCs, TIAs, DPF, CCPA) in a commercial contract context.

Responsibilities

Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of customer-facing agreements across multiple jurisdictions, including MSAs, SaaS and platform contracts.
Oversee the contract lifecycle for customer agreements, leveraging existing automation, with a hands-on focus on larger and non-standard contracts and on keeping the underlying processes current across 1NCE's key markets in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific.
Advise on jurisdiction-specific requirements and adapt standard contract frameworks for local law compliance across 1NCE's operating markets.
Draft, review, and negotiate vendor and supply chain agreements.
Support the commercial team by developing and maintaining standard customer contract templates, GTCs, negotiation playbooks, and pre-approved fallback positions.
Advise the business on GDPR compliance, working in close coordination with the DPO and CISO.
Support developing, maintaining, and continuously improving 1NCE's privacy compliance framework — including ROPA, privacy policies and notices, consent and cookie mechanisms, internal data protection policies, data subject request handling, and vendor privacy reviews.
Support privacy compliance across 1NCE's key jurisdictions beyond the EU (including the US and Singapore), coordinating with external counsel where local depth is required.
Draft, review, and negotiate data processing agreements (DPAs), data transfer clauses, and joint controller arrangements as part of customer and vendor contract workflows.
Support international data transfer compliance, including EU Standard Contractual Clauses and adequacy framework monitoring, and assist the DPO with TIAs and DPIAs where additional internal capacity is needed.
Monitor and understand developments in EU data protection and tech regulation (including the EU AI Act, Data Act, ePrivacy and CRA) and translate them into practical guidance for the business.
Support the business on contentious commercial matters with customers, partners and suppliers through negotiation, settlement, and pre-litigation resolution, instructing and supervising external counsel where required.
Identify, assess, and communicate legal risk to the business clearly and actionably.
Support the development of internal compliance policies and risk frameworks.
Act as trusted legal advisor to Sales, Product, IT, Security, Finance/Accounting and Operations.
Work closely with the Legal team and internal stakeholders on high-priority matters and provide cover across the full legal team mandate.