Legal Counsel

The role is offered on a hybrid basis from Amsterdam, or remote across Germany.

Your Mission

As our Legal Counsel, you will hit the ground running working on all types of legal tasks for our teams located in the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Poland. For our go-to-market teams, you will negotiate commercial contracts to help close important customers and take away legal concerns. Other teams you will help by reviewing vendor contracts or advising on legal matters related to data protection, risk management, intellectual property, new features, or new projects. Ideally, you already have experience within the SaaS/technology industry, speak German or French, and have excellent commercial drafting and negotiation skills. You always make sure to help Tellent and its teams get stuff done within our legal framework and communicate clearly to get your point across.

About the Team

We are a team of 3 based in the Netherlands with offices in Amsterdam, Paris, and Poznan that play a crucial role in supporting Tellent’s rapid growth and ensuring that potential legal risks are managed effectively. Our team’s mission is to empower Tellent to be a successful company and help Tellent’s employees to succeed. The key to unlocking this is by building and maintaining a compliant, scalable and flexible (legal) framework for our company to thrive in, while remaining honest and reliable towards our customers, upholding reasonable risk management, and also ensuring the legal housekeeping stays up to date. You will report directly to the Director of Legal and work closely with the rest of the legal team and other stakeholders within the organization.

12 Month Journey

During the first 3 months, you’ll focus on learning everything about Tellent, its software products Recruitee, Javelo, and KiwiHR, the legal department roles, workflows, and responsibilities, all the Tellent teams, the people, and more. You’ll be a fly on the wall for all that happens within the team and the company, take up as much information as possible, ask lots of questions and get to know the ins and outs of the legal department. You will also start to work on your first tasks and smaller projects independently.

Within 6 months, you’ll be familiar with Tellent, its teams, its people, and the way of working of the legal department and be able to perform tasks and projects independently with confidence. You’ll be able to perform tasks effectively to increase the department’s productivity and alleviate the workload of the team members.

After 1 year, you’ll be a full contributor to the legal department and have in-depth knowledge of its processes and responsibilities. You’ll be able to do much of your tasks fully independently and be able to contribute to ongoing legal matters that may arise. In addition, you’ll be able to work with other team members on ongoing company projects and proactively take part in discussions on legal matters that concern Tellent or on the workings of the legal department.

What You’ll Do

• You will take the lead on reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts with customers, suppliers, and other third parties.
• You will provide information to internal stakeholders about contracts, terms and conditions, legal and compliance and offer advice to keep Tellent as scalable and flexible as possible.
• You will perform vendor reviews and application reviews in line with company policies.
• You will, together with the rest of the legal team, work on creating and maintaining scalable and compliant business practices and help to improve legal department processes.
• You will, together with the rest of the legal team, work on company projects and on specific legal projects to help Tellent become more successful.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• Master's degree in Law, preferably private or commercial law.
• 3+ years post-masters experience in the Information Technology (IT) sector as a lawyer or as a legal counsel in a fast-paced environment. SaaS industry experience preferred.
• Deep understanding of data protection laws, in particular GDPR.
• Excellent legal drafting and negotiation skills for commercial contracting.
• Ability to handle different priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to work flexibly with a variety of teams and people.
• High integrity and strong legal and analytical reasoning.
• Proficiency in English with good communication skills.
• Fluency in German or French preferred.
• Team spirit and a collaborative can-do attitude.

Why Tellent 💜

• Flexibility to work from home in the Netherlands and from our beautiful canal-side office in Amsterdam OR remotely across Germany
• A chance to be part of and shape one of the most ambitious scale-ups in Europe
• Work in a diverse and multicultural team
• €1,500 annual training budget plus internal training
• Pension plan, travel reimbursement, and wellness perks
• 25 (NL) or 30 (DE) paid holiday days + 2 additional days to relax in 2024
• Work from anywhere for 4 weeks/year
• An inclusive and international work environment with a whole lot of fun thrown in!
• Apple MacBook and tools
• €400 travel budget to visit your colleagues in Poland or France

€200 Home Office budget

• We’ll save you the startup pitch of Friday beers and ping-pong. Visit our Instagram to check us out!

About Tellent

Tellent, a premier Talent Management Suite, enables People teams to improve the full employee lifecycle with a cutting-edge Applicant Tracking System, Human Resources Information System, and Performance Management Software – all in one place.

With 300+ talented employees operating from six global locations, we've empowered over 7,000 organizations across 100+ countries with our leading HR tech solutions – Recruitee, KiwiHR, and Javelo. We have a growing network of over 300 partners, all committed to one vision: guiding all People leaders to create a better world of work.

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If you’d like to be part of this incredible journey, please apply directly - we're looking forward to speaking to you!

Tellent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and welcome applications from underrepresented groups and encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, neurodiversity, or status as an individual with a disability.