General Legal Counsel

About the Company

The AI-driven trade platform transforming industrial supply in infrastructure, energy, and construction materials. It connects vetted suppliers across Asia, Europe, and the GCC region with local demand through a single integrated platform.

Its proprietary AI stack digitizes and automates the full lifecycle of materials trade - from procurement and pricing to inventory, logistics, and embedded financing - replacing thousands of manual, relationship-driven processes with real-time orchestration.

Buyers gain instant quotes, reliable availability, and predictable delivery through a unified operating system. Suppliers benefit from accurate forecasting, disciplined demand management, and seamless integration into cross-border fulfillment networks. The company partners with leading brands to run both dropship and cross-dock fulfillment motions for large-scale transactions, turning global supply chains into predictable, repeatable, software-like workflows.

The company has scaled to triple-digit-million GMV, operates across six international markets, and is rapidly expanding toward profitability. With a team of 80+ people across Berlin (HQ) and Asia, it is building the world's first industrial-grade AI operating system for materials - redefining how global trade works in one of the world's largest and most essential industries.

The company is backed by top-tier investors as well as global institutional banking partners, having recently closed its $40m series B - Atomico, Project A, and Invent Capital with institutional backing from Commerzbank and KfW.

We are looking for our first General Counsel & Head of Legal Ops. We don't want to build a massive legal department; we want to build a massive legal advantage. You will be the architect of an AI-augmented legal and tax function that enables us to scale confidently across Germany and Europe with unprecedented speed and structural efficiency.

This is not a back-office role. You'll sit at the center of high-stakes transactions, cross-border supply chains, supplier negotiations, customer claims, and operational risk. You'll design the legal frameworks, templates, and playbooks that allow Andercore to scale confidently across Germany and Europe.

As our Syndikusanwalt / General legal Counsel, you will hold the formal Syndikusrechtsanwalt designation under German law-ensuring full in-house counsel privileges and professional independence while deeply embedded in the business.

The "AI-First" Mandate

In this role, your "Junior Associate" and "Tax Senior" are Large Language Models (LLMs), your sr. are external counsels such as TaylorWessing, FGS, Reed Smith, and various specialized boutiques. You will:

Scale Through Automation
Use AI to review and audit large volumes of contracts and legal documents in hours instead of weeks.

AI-Augmented Tax Structuring
Deploy AI agents for first-pass analysis of cross-border tax, transfer pricing, and permanent establishment risks.

Self-Serve Governance
Implement internal AI tools that resolve most routine legal, HR, and NDA requests instantly.

External Counsel Optimization
Use AI to verify research and drafts so external advisors focus only on complex judgment and final sign-off.

What You Will Do

1. Commercial & Contracting Excellence

• Draft, negotiate, and close high-value commercial contracts across B2B sales, procurement, logistics, SaaS, and partnerships.
• Build scalable contract templates, playbooks, fallback rules, and negotiation guidelines that shorten deal cycles while protecting the company.
• Advise Sales, Procurement, Growth, and Finance on pricing structures, payment terms, supplier agreements, international expansion, and new business models.
• Manage supplier disputes, customer claims, and operational risk situations pragmatically and commercially.
• Translate legal risk into clear, actionable decisions for the business.

2. M&A Execution

• Lead the legal lifecycle of approximately three acquisitions per year.
• Own the SPA process, coordinate local counsel across jurisdictions, and drive deals to closing.
• Support due diligence, transaction structuring, and integration planning.

3. People & Employment Law (≈20%)

• Support the People team on German employment law matters including hiring, contracts, terminations, warnings, restructurings, and compliance.
• Draft and refine employment agreements, HR guidelines, and internal policies.
• Advise leadership on complex personnel matters with clarity, empathy, and legal precision.

4. Compliance, Governance & Risk (≈5%)

• Monitor EU and German regulatory developments affecting trade, logistics, payments, data, and digital operations.
• Manage corporate governance matters for German entities and coordinate with external counsel where required.
• Design simple, scalable compliance processes aligned with our operational model.
• Promote a culture of proactive compliance and commercial discipline.

Who You Are

• AI-Native: You don't just "use" AI; you prompt-engineer your workflow. You are comfortable building a "no-code" legal stack.
• Volljurist/in with two Staatsexamina and eligible for registration as Syndikusrechtsanwalt.
• 3+ years PQE from a top-tier law firm or in-house team-ideally in tech, marketplaces, logistics, or fast-scaling B2B businesses.
• Business-fluent in German and English (English is our internal operating language).
• Operational Mindset: You value deal velocity over long memos. You quantify risk in dollars, not just "could/might" language.
• Thrives in an office-only, high-tempo environment with fast decisions and constant iteration.

What We Offer

• Full ownership of the legal function at one of Europe's fastest-growing AI-enabled operators.
• A Syndikus role with strategic influence and direct access to the Founder/CEO and executive team.
• High exposure to cross-border commercial work, operational risk, and complex deal-making.
• Competitive compensation, performance bonus, and VSOP participation.
• Beautiful HQ in central Berlin with a high-energy, no-politics, all-performance culture.
• A chance to build the legal foundation of a company scaling across multiple countries and categories.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, or any other characteristic. We believe that diversity drives innovation, creativity, and collective strength.