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finmid

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11 - 50 employees

🤝 B2B

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 Seed Round on 2022-02

B2B • Finance • Fintech

finmid is a Berlin-based company specializing in B2B financing solutions designed to streamline access to capital for businesses. They provide services such as deferred payment terms, credit lines, and cash advances, tailored to various industries including agriculture and retail. By embedding these financial services, finmid helps companies overcome cash flow challenges while maintaining focus on their core operations.

📋 Description

• Build the commercial legal infrastructure that lets finmid contract at the speed its product ships. • Be the main legal point of contact for our commercial and product teams. • Operate behind every platform, borrower, and supplier contract. • Architect systems that make contracting work repeatable. • Collaborate closely with the General Counsel, the Head of Commercial, and product leads across Europe. • Have autonomy while embedded with teams building, selling, and integrating the product. • Work on unique problems without established playbooks. • Own finmid's contract stack end-to-end across different types of agreements. • Sit alongside product leads as new features develop and translate roadmaps into legal frameworks. • Build the operating system for commercial legal at finmid, including a redline review workflow and a clause library. • Run negotiations of third-party supplier agreements from various providers. • Ensure regulatory compliance within commercial contracts and leverage AI tools for efficiency.

🎯 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. The shape of the experience matters more than the count of years. • Direct exposure to commercial contract drafting and negotiation. You should be able to walk into a redline conversation and hold your ground on the substance. • Bonus if you've worked on finance, regulated product, or any setting where commercial contracting has had to coexist with supervisory expectation. • You think in systems. When you see a recurring contract problem, your instinct is to design a workflow that prevents it rather than to draft around it case by case. • You think algorithmically. You can decompose a contracting process into decision trees, branching logic, and checkpoints, and you can explain that structure to a product manager or an engineer without translation loss. • You treat contracts as product. You understand that a well-designed agreement is a reusable component, that clause libraries are infrastructure, and that the difference between a function handling 50 deals a quarter and one handling 500 is almost entirely a question of process design. • You're practically curious about AI tooling and willing to get hands-on. In time, you'll develop a clear-eyed view of where current legal AI genuinely accelerates the work and where it quietly creates new failure modes. • You hold the line on legal precision while staying commercially pragmatic. You know which positions are worth fighting for and which are tax on the deal. • You write with precision: clauses, playbooks, internal guidance, and product specs that are unambiguous, implementation-ready, and short enough that someone will actually read them. • You're comfortable working cross-functionally with product and engineering. You don't need to write code, but you should feel at home in a Linear ticket, a design review, or a roadmap conversation. • You enjoy building from scratch. The state of the function on day one should look to you like an opportunity rather than a deficit. • All the while, you maintain a high standard of quality across your outputs and are a trusted advisor to your internal counterparts.

🏖️ Benefits

• Early commercial legal role with direct access to product, engineering, commercial, and the General Counsel across multiple European jurisdictions, with unusually broad exposure to how a regulated financial product is actually built, sold, and contracted, rather than one narrow slice of it. • We see ourselves as “distributed first” (i.e. work from anywhere) but also have a beautiful office in Berlin where you can work. • We are flexible and cover whatever you need to be as productive as possible. • Home office stipend. • 30 days time off. • Meaningful equity. • Open-minded and transparent culture that includes regular get-together meetings (e.g. All Hands, Brown Bag Lunch, Offsites)