Legal Counsel - Commercial (d/f/m)

Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our growing team of 1,800+ Personios across Europe and the US are building user-friendly products that delight our 14,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?

This position is a hybrid role based in Munich, Berlin or London (fluency in German is essential)

Bring your knowledge. Be a partner. Join our Finance, Strategy, & Legal team and use your subject-matter expertise to investigate problems, define solutions, and guide decisions as Personio’s co-pilots.

We’re looking for an innovative and original thinker to join the Commercial Legal team and embrace its ethos of “doing less, better”. A business-minded lawyer with an excellent understanding of technology contracts and experience in managing and negotiating a high volume of commercial transactions.

Be our expert in providing commercial legal support to our colleagues to only protect the company, but also actively drive its growth.

Role Responsibilities:

• In your role as a strategic business partner, you will ensure that our processes remain fast and legally compliant as we continue to grow.

• You will be responsible for various legal-related matters involved in selling our software, with a focus on supporting the Revenue & Success and Customer Experience teams;

• You will work across departments to minimise risks, optimise processes and coordinate the development of procedures and guidelines to align with legal requirements and industry best practices;

• You will support and work on commercial legal team projects and initiatives to improve legal process efficiency; including training, CLM tool management and integrating AI in accordance with the company strategy in your day to day work.

Role Requirements:

• A fully qualified German lawyer (with both state exams or a bachelor and masters degree in law);

• Fluent written and spoken German and English skills ; further European languages are a plus.

• At a guide, this role would suit a commercial lawyer between 4 - 7 years post qualification legal experience in a technology company with experience supporting a high volume sales organisation ;

• A flexible self-starter and proactive problem solver who can work autonomously and handle significant customer contact;

• Effective written and oral communication skills are essential . Ability to clearly present information, respond to questions from customers and internal stakeholders, with focus on pragmatic solutions;

• Able to manage conflicting demands from multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment ;

• Strong negotiator with proven track record in supporting a sales organisation and in negotiating a wide array of commercial agreements, including DPA, SaaS subscription and RFPs (bonus points for EVB-IT);

• Energised by the role AI is playing in legal work and are ready to embrace AI tools and workflows to help you work smarter, faster, and more impactfully.

• A good sense of humour is key to excelling as a member of our team. Bringing a positive, solutions-driven approach to challenging situations.

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity

• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)

• Make an impact on the environment and society with fully paid Impact Days

• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares

• Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex!

• Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events like All Company Culture Week and local year-end celebrations

• Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes