Senior Legal Counsel – Business Partnering & Deal Execution, SaaS

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Jedox

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2002

☁️ SaaS

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Finance • Enterprise

Jedox is a SaaS company that provides an integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting, and enterprise performance management (EPM) platform for finance and operational teams. It combines no-code/low-code tools, data integration, and AI-driven capabilities (JedoxAI) to automate FP&A processes, enable scenario modeling, financial consolidation, reporting, and real-time insights. Jedox is aimed at enterprise and corporate finance users to improve decision-making, streamline reporting, and drive finance-led digitalization.

📋 Description

• As Senior Legal Counsel (m/f/d) you act as an operational sparring partner for Sales and Management and play a central role in the fast, scalable and legally secure execution of SaaS deals. • Your focus is on increasing deal velocity, win rate and commercial scalability — with a controlled risk profile. • You report directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and work closely with Sales Leadership. • End-to-end support of SaaS deals: legal coverage from tendering through contract negotiation to closing. • Shaping deal strategies: active support, especially for complex enterprise and key-account contracts. • Negotiation & structuring of contracts: focus on commercial levers, deal speed and high close rates. • Development of scalable contract standards: building and enhancing playbooks, fallback clauses and CLM structures to accelerate deal execution. • Ownership of commercial KPIs in the legal process: responsibility for metrics such as deal cycle time, touchpoints and closure rate. • Risk management & guardrails: active control of risk allocation and the definition of clear decision-making guardrails. • Use of Legal Tech & AI: leveraging modern tools to increase efficiency while ensuring corporate governance and proper housekeeping.

🎯 Requirements

• Fully qualified lawyer (Volljurist), LL.M. or equivalent qualification • At least 5 years of relevant experience in private practice or as in-house counsel • Extensive experience negotiating commercial contracts, ideally in a SaaS/software environment • Strong understanding of sales processes and commercial drivers • Ability to manage legal risks pragmatically and with a business-oriented approach • Excellent negotiation and communication skills and a confident presence • Ability to explain complex legal topics clearly up to executive level • Structured, hands-on working style and preferably experience with Legal Tech/CLM • Fluent German and English (negotiation/business level)

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work: We love collaborating in the offices as #Oneteam, but we also enjoy the option to work from anywhere and set our own working hours. • Company pension plan and occupational disability insurance. • Take time to care for yourself: We offer 30 vacation days and comprehensive health benefits. • Plan your future: Planning means different things to different people. Work with your manager to create a career plan that fits your path. • Reduce your carbon footprint: All offices are centrally located and well served by public transport. • You also have the option of a JobRad (company bicycle leasing). • Drinks, coffee, fruit and muesli are available in our offices. • Efficient work environment: We value flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths. • Corporate benefits: Receive company discounts for many brands and products.