Commercial Counsel, Contract Infrastructure

At finmid, we're building infrastructure that integrates access to capital for SMEs directly into the platforms they use daily. Build the commercial legal infrastructure that lets finmid contract at the speed its product ships. You'll be the main legal point of contact for our commercial and product teams, the operator behind every platform, borrower, and supplier contract, and the architect of the systems that make this work repeatable. The goal: a contracting function that scales with revenue rather than with headcount.

Responsibilities

Own finmid's contract stack end-to-end across platform-facing, borrower-facing, and supplier-facing agreements; Negotiate independently with counterparties and bring genuinely hard calls for collective decision; Act as main legal point of contact for commercial and product teams; Translate product roadmap into legal frameworks such as term sheets, customer-facing T&Cs, and partner schedules; Build a redline review workflow with AI assistance; Build and maintain a clause library and playbook; Automate propagation of T&C changes across jurisdictions and languages; Establish version control and an internal knowledge layer; Run negotiation of third-party supplier agreements, including cloud, data, and outsourced services; Ensure contracts meet DORA, GDPR, sub-processor, outsourcing, and vendor risk requirements; Treat regulatory clauses as reusable components; Choose and integrate AI and tooling into daily legal practice; Map the full contract surface and identify contract collisions and manual bottlenecks in the first three months; Take over negotiation of at least one live commercial deal and one live procurement contract; Deliver a 12-month view of how the commercial legal function should evolve

Requirements

Graduate of a top-tier EU, UK, or US law school, qualified or qualifying in a relevant jurisdiction; At least one year of experience in Big Law or in-house at a technology company, fintech, SaaS business, or financial institution; Direct exposure to commercial contract drafting and negotiation; Working permit in Germany; Thinks in systems and designs workflows that prevent recurring contract problems; Thinks algorithmically and can decompose contracting processes into decision trees, branching logic, and checkpoints; Treats contracts as reusable components and clause libraries as infrastructure; Practically curious about AI tooling and willing to get hands-on; Holds the line on legal precision while staying commercially pragmatic; Writes precise, implementation-ready clauses, playbooks, and internal guidance; Comfortable working cross-functionally with product and engineering; Enjoys building from scratch; Maintains high quality standards and is a trusted advisor to internal counterparts

Nice to have

Bonus if you've worked on finance, regulated product, or any setting where commercial contracting has had to coexist with supervisory expectation; Practical experience with legal AI tools (Claude, Noxtua, Legora, Codex) is valued as you develop a clear view of where they accelerate work and where they create new failure modes

Benefits

Early commercial legal role with direct access to product, engineering, commercial, and the General Counsel across multiple European jurisdictions; Beautiful office in Berlin with the option to work remotely for parts of the year; Flexible support to be as productive as possible; Home office stipend; 30 days time off; Meaningful equity; Open-minded and transparent culture with regular get-together meetings (All Hands, Brown Bag Lunch, Offsites)