Legal Counsel overseeing legal aspects of agile software development projects at DigitalService GmbH. Involvement in contract management, legal research, and stakeholder communication.
Responsibilities
Operational advice: You are the primary contact within project teams and answer inquiries from our product and engineering colleagues on IT/IP law and data protection.
Contract drafting & claim management: For projects with federal ministries, you independently draft contracts and provide legal support for changes in performance or service disruptions.
Process optimization: You refine existing contract templates for agile development services and help accelerate collaboration with the federal administration.
Legal research: For complex legal questions in the context of public administration digitalization, you conduct independent research.
Enablement & knowledge transfer: You prepare and deliver internal workshops on legal topics and translate complex legal information into clear, accessible language for non-lawyers in our knowledge base.
Requirements
Solid legal expertise: You hold at least the First State Examination (Erstes Staatsexamen) or a master’s degree and can apply case law and legal literature with confidence.
Specialized knowledge: Ideally, you already have experience in data protection, copyright, and/or public procurement law to comprehensively secure our projects.
Contract & claim management: You have experience drafting and operationally managing (IT) contracts and have successfully applied this in a legal‑tech startup or the private sector.
User‑centredness & pragmatism: You draft contracts and policies in language that is understandable to non-lawyers and focus on enabling solutions rather than managing concerns.
AI affinity: You use AI language models confidently as a tool to make your daily legal and drafting work efficient and modern.
Strong communication & bilingualism: You communicate confidently with interdisciplinary stakeholders — in German (at least C1) and in English.
Benefits
Urban Sports Club & more: Every month you receive an additional €50 voucher on top of your salary that you can use flexibly. Fitness, tech, mobility or food — you choose!
Additionally, we offer an annual training budget of up to €2,000 and the option to enroll in an employer pension plan on attractive terms.
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