Legal Counsel

**About lemon.markets****:
Our mission is providing better opportunities to invest in capital markets. By empowering FinTechs and Banks to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers. In pursuit of this goal, we strive to open 100 million securities accounts within Europe in this decade.

lemon.markets builds infrastructure for financial services and technology companies powering the next generation of investment products. From enabling a FinTech to launch their first investment product, over allowing e.g. a Neobank to embed investing into their product to bringing investing into a completely new context. Our API-first infrastructure makes launching an investment product customer-centric and compliant. We abstract all complexity for our partners through a well documented API, a self-service customer operations portal and operating in a clear regulatory framework. Enabling partners to launch in weeks, not months.

We have experienced first hand that brokerage infrastructure is broken. Building an investment product used to be highly expensive, challenging and cumbersome. We ease this pain by shielding our partners & their customers from the underlying complexity - and with that, we make investing more accessible to everyone. Because that’s exactly what we enjoy, going to places nobody else dares and solving hard problems. This not only creates tons of value when done right, but attracts the smartest minds - because outlier companies are built by exceptional (& diverse) people like you.

**Your Mission**:
Together with the General Counsel (whose deputy you will become), you are the first point of contact for our founder Max, the company’s management board and all departments for all legal matters that arise in a commercial enterprise in general and in an investment firm in particular. Your work will be generalist, and you will advise on a wide range of different areas of law, and banking/financial services law is just one part of it. You will also advise on company law, labour law, administrative law and, of course, general civil law and contract law.

But your mission goes beyond this. You’ll have the opportunity to design flexible, creative and out-of-the-box thinking, yet legally compliant solutions and processes to realise our company's vision. Developing new ideas and delivering proposals for their implementation, driving innovation (also outside of legal) - all whilst being proactive. You are so much more than just ‘the lawyer’. You are a provider of solutions.

Here at lemon.markets, we value ownership so you will help shape its further development in a crucial position with a high degree of responsibility and freedom, as well as high visibility to senior management. You will work together with an outstandingly experienced team of colleagues and will benefit from a very personal and human mentoring.

**You will**:

- Play a leading role in the development and improvement of financial products, from the initial considerations to their final implementation, and solve all the legal challenges that arise in the various phases of such projects.
- Own your own projects from start to finish and from day one.
- Draft and/or review contracts with all kinds of vendors and service providers, but will also draft and develop our standard contracts.
- Closely monitor developments in legislation, regulation and case law, proactively inform your colleagues within and outside the legal department if these may impact the existing product offerings and, if necessary, propose implementation measures, ensuring a swift and legally compliant implementation of those new requirements.

**You will be successful in this role if**:

- **You have gained extensive experience as a lawyer. **You are a fully qualified German lawyer (Volljurist), having passed both State Exams. You can confidently utilize specialist terminology.
- ** Growing Investing Opportunities excites you.** We operate in a highly regulated environment and therefore having worked prior in a **Fintech or financial Service provider** (Bank, Insurance or Brokerage) would be preferable and would give you a head start.
- ** You enjoy building from scratch.** This means high involvement in the product development process itself, while advocating for the highest security standards. It also means that you enjoy taking technical decisions.
- ** You have a bias for action over discussion.** To avoid getting stuck in discussion, you collect new feedback, try out a different approach or gather data with a proof of concept because you trust the process.
- ** You are ready and willing to take ownership.** “This is not my job” is not part of your vocabulary - you identify problems, take initiative to take them on and challenge the status quo.
- ** You value ownership.** You work autonomously and are able to steer workstreams efficiently (usually within pre-defined parameters).
- ** You have a collaborative mindset**. Working