Senior Legal Counsel – Contracts, German Speaker

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🌐 France, Germany – Remote

🇫🇷 France – Remote 🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Pennylane

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2020

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

SaaS • Fintech • B2B

Pennylane is a French SaaS platform that centralizes financial management, accounting, invoicing, expense management, treasury and business banking features for small and medium-sized businesses, independents and accounting firms. It provides an integrated dashboard, automated workflows, bank account and corporate cards, invoice and payment tools, and native integrations with accounting and payments partners to streamline bookkeeping and cashflow operations.

📋 Description

• Act as a trusted legal partner for teams across Pennylane • Manage commercial and operational agreements from drafting through signature and post-signature follow-up • Draft and negotiate purchase orders and related agreements with partner firms, primarily outside France, with a current focus on Germany • Manage contracts with strategic international suppliers • Maintain and improve templates in line with regulatory, product and business developments • Work with Sales and Partnerships to streamline the contracting process • Improve customer terms and conditions for SME customers across France and Europe • Support Sales with the contracting process and automated quotations • Review and negotiate agreements with Pennylane integrators and resellers • Anticipate the contractual impact of key regulations, including e-invoicing, payment services and the EU AI Act • Contribute to contract templates and playbooks • Structure and improve internal contracting processes to increase efficiency and scalability • Optimize contract management tools, including Tomorro, Pivot and Notion • Identify opportunities to automate repetitive, low-value tasks, including through AI • Provide clear, pragmatic advice to Sales, Partnerships, Finance, Security and Product teams • Train non-legal teams and help build a strong legal culture across Pennylane

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified lawyer or legal counsel • Extensive experience in contract law, gained in a law firm, particularly in IP/IT, technology or SaaS, and/or in a fast-growing tech company • Fluent in English • Working knowledge of French and German • Strong expertise in B2B SaaS agreements, including IP, indemnification, liability caps, SLAs and data-related provisions • Autonomous and comfortable managing matters from start to finish • Experience working in a multi-jurisdictional environment, particularly across France and Europe • Interest in legal operations and technology • Experience structuring processes or optimizing contract management tools • Able to act as a business partner and help teams move quickly while protecting the company • Rigorous and concise, with the ability to explain complex legal topics clearly to non-legal audiences • Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment involving ambiguity, prioritization and rapid iteration

🏖️ Benefits

• Truly flexible remote-working culture • Inclusive and supportive work environment • Equal opportunities for all candidates