Commercial Counsel, Contract Infrastructure

finmid GmbH

Job Overview

Location

Berlin / Remote

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Own finmid’s end-to-end commercial contract stack, including platform partnerships, borrower agreements, and supplier procurement contracts, ensuring consistent, scalable, and legally sound documentation across Europe.
• Negotiate commercial contracts independently after internalizing company positions, redlining against approved playbooks, and escalating only high-stakes or novel issues for collective decision-making.
• Embed with product teams to translate product roadmaps into enforceable legal frameworks — designing term sheets, customer T&Cs, and partner schedules that flex with product changes without requiring full contract renegotiation.
• Build and maintain the operating system for commercial legal at finmid: implement AI-assisted redline workflows, dynamic clause libraries that auto-update with evolving positions, automated T&C propagation across jurisdictions and languages, and version-controlled contract repositories requiring minimal manual oversight.
• Design and implement contract management infrastructure that reduces reliance on human intervention, ensuring new hires can onboard in days rather than months through clear, machine-readable playbooks and internal knowledge layers.
• Lead negotiation of third-party vendor contracts — including cloud providers, data processors, and outsourced services — enforcing strict terms on liability, IP ownership, data security, and exit rights while mapping obligations to downstream regulatory requirements.
• Integrate regulatory compliance directly into commercial contracts, treating DORA, GDPR, sub-processor architecture, EU outsourcing rules, and vendor risk standards as reusable, modular components rather than bespoke clauses.
• Select, test, and integrate AI tooling (e.g., Claude, Noxtua, Legora) into daily contracting workflows, running experiments to identify tools that compound throughput and eliminating those that introduce friction or risk.
• Identify and eliminate high-time-cost manual processes — such as redline triage, translation management, or T&C version propagation — replacing them with automated, self-running systems within the first three months.
• Map the full contract surface area across products and jurisdictions to pinpoint inconsistencies, overlaps, and hidden inefficiencies that limit scalability.
• Develop the first version of a clear, machine-friendly playbook for top recurring contract positions, ensuring it is usable by non-lawyers and actionable for product and commercial teams.
• Achieve fluency in the AI tools under evaluation by the team, adopting them as core components of daily work rather than keeping them in assessment mode.
• Deliver a 12-month strategic vision for the commercial legal function, including sequencing of infrastructure upgrades, tooling adoption, and scaling priorities aligned with revenue growth.
• Collaborate closely with General Counsel, Head of Commercial, and cross-functional product and engineering leads, acting as the legal interface for product development and commercial partnerships.
• Maintain high-quality outputs with precision in drafting, unambiguous language, and implementation-ready clarity, ensuring contracts are readable, enforceable, and adopted across teams.
• Operate with autonomy in a fast-moving environment where established playbooks do not yet exist, embracing ambiguity as an opportunity to build systems from scratch.
• Work cross-functionally in engineering and product environments, participating in Linear tickets, design reviews, and roadmap sessions without requiring translation of legal concepts into non-legal terms.
• Uphold legal precision while remaining commercially pragmatic, distinguishing between non-negotiable positions and those that are better resolved as trade-offs to move deals forward.

🎯 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, with ability to hold ground on substance in redline discussions
• Experience working on regulated financial products or settings where commercial contracting coexists with supervisory expectations
• Ability to think in systems and algorithms, decomposing contracting processes into decision trees and checkpoints usable by product and engineering teams
• Practical curiosity about AI tooling and willingness to test and integrate tools like Claude, Noxtua, or Legora into daily workflows

🏖️ Benefits

• Early commercial legal role with direct access to product, engineering, commercial teams, and General Counsel across multiple European jurisdictions
• Distributed-first work model with option to work from Berlin office
• Home office stipend
• 30 days time off
• Meaningful equity
• Open-minded and transparent culture with regular All Hands, Brown Bag Lunches, and offsites

Skills & Technologies

REST

DevOps

Remote

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About finmid GmbH

finmid GmbH provides a B2B infrastructure platform that enables software companies to integrate lending and capital services into their products. Its APIs and white-label components let marketplaces, vertical SaaS providers and fintechs offer credit lines, working capital and revenue-based financing to their customers without building or licensing banking technology. Based in Berlin and founded in 2021, finmid partners with regulated banks to handle compliance, risk scoring and funding while focusing on seamless embedding of financial products into existing software workflows.

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