Legal Counsel (f/m/x)

Posted Feb 7

In short: Full-time position. Please only apply if you are currently residing in Germany. Fluent English & German are required.

We are Gigs

  • Gigs is building Stripe for phone plans. Enabling platforms to sell phone & data subscriptions to their users through an easy-to-use API in 200+ countries.
  • For consumers, Gigs makes it super simple to subscribe to and manage a phone plan with a few clicks. A phone plan you’ll love to use yourself. Easy, transparent & global connectivity for your smartphone, smartwatch, or IoT device.
  • See immediate results of your work. Our large-scale integrations mean huge adoption within a short time. We obsess about the needs of our partners and their end customers to build a best-in-industry experience.
  • We are backed by the investors behind Stripe, Dropbox, Airbnb, Facebook, Spotify & Plaid. As part of Gigs, you will have access to the teams, resources, and support from any company we work with. We count on a team of world-class advisors and investors that can help us in tricky situations.
  • We completed the Y Combinator W21 batch and have further raised our Seed and Series A rounds with USA-based investors.

The Position

We are seeking an exceptional Legal Counsel to spearhead and define the legal team at Gigs. As the first legal hire, you will drive projects across a variety of diverse business law-related matters and be our jack-of-all-legal trades!

Key responsibilities include:

  • Structuring the legal function at Gigs, from terms of services to multi-year customer contracts, you’ll build a holistic legal infrastructure across the company. To do this, you’ll work closely with the founders and leadership team to drive strategic initiatives.
  • Being a jack-of-all-legal-trades. You’ll review and own a range of commercial agreements, including B2B agreements, supplier contracts, business customer contracts, software contracts, EU regulations for telecom, and USA regulations for telecom. This includes working with relevant subject-matter experts at the right time.
  • Building the internal corporate governance function for the Gigs group of companies.
  • Proactively finding ways to benefit Gigs and our stakeholders through smart legal structures and contracts. You will have to navigate different types of contracts in the USA and EU and keep tabs on emerging laws and regulations in the SaaS and telecom spaces. You will be the first to know when new laws may impact Gigs.
  • improving the existing legal infrastructure at Gigs and implementing consistent legal guidelines, templates, and frameworks relating to contract management.
  • Being an internal advisor to the Founders on specific employment or corporate law matters.
  • Liaising with external counsel and subject-matter experts to sync & obtain advice on specific items, understand how these impact the Gigs ecosystem, and convey this back to the relevant internal team in a clear format.
  • Effectively convey Gigs ecosystem, business model, and growth plans to external lawyers and legal teams to establish the best regulatory and legal environment for Gigs.

Requirements

We know that perfect candidates don’t exist. Even if not all of this applies to you, we’d love to learn more about you.

  • You are a nerd about the law with a law degree from a top USA law school or have completed the 1. Staatsexam. You have 2+ years of experience as an in-house legal counsel in a startup or scale-up.
  • You are clever and eager to become an ecosystem expert. You are eager to dig into new legal topics and areas to understand if and how they impact the Gigs ecosystem. You will gain a complete overview of our legal ecosystem and work with subject-matter experts to optimise our contractual and regulatory ecosystem.
  • You are an excellent stakeholder manager with analytical and drafting skills, strong attention to detail, and a high ability to work independently on demanding legal issues and to tight deadlines. You won’t be writing or drafting our contracts, but you’ll optimally manage our external legal experts on each topic. You will become an expert at conveying Gigs business model and strategies to legal experts, so they can do their best work.
  • You speak fluent English and German, with an exceptional ability to understand legal matters in both languages.
  • You abstract legal complexity for a living. You innately seek to understand complicated legal matters from different angles to see how they could benefit the Gigs ecosystem. You naturally think about finding a synergistic intersection of law, regulation, and business growth within different jurisdictions. You’ve made it your mission to find smart solutions for respective legal issues and only raise the red flag when necessary.

Benefits

  • Full-time salary range 65k - 90k annually.
  • 28 paid vacation days per year (PTO).
  • Generous stock options: We want everybody to be a true owner of Gigs (tax-free until exercised).
  • Free phone and data plan

Flexible working hours: Early riser? Night owl? Need to pick up your kids and finish up later? You can discuss and organize with your team to work out what works best for you.

Get your perfect setup: Mac, Mechanical Keyboard, Plugins, IDE. We are flexible and cover whatever you need to do the best work of your life.

A workplace built for remote-first work: We are building Gigs as a remote-friendly company. Take, own, and implement decisions to build Gigs from scratch. You can join us in Berlin, or work from wherever you like. If you are based in Berlin, you can work from our office or from the comfort of your home.

Gigs Pads: Our collection of beautiful homes around the world, for when you need a work-cation getaway.

Gigs Republic: Our semi-annual sunny offsite, a time for us to all come together for great food, lots of laughter, and leisurely activities.