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About the Role

HERE is seeking a forward-thinking, business-minded Senior Legal Counsel to support its Customer Organization (CCO) across the EMEA region. This high-impact role involves acting as a trusted advisor to business leaders, leading strategic negotiations with major automotive and enterprise customers, and collaborating with global colleagues to advance HERE’s commercial objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex commercial negotiations and draft a broad range of agreements, including licensing, RFP/tender responses, and professional services contracts, across corporate, commercial, IP, and privacy matters.
• Advise senior CCO leaders (SVPs/VPs) on legal risks, compliance obligations, and operational considerations related to HERE’s business in EMEA and beyond.
• Own end-to-end contracting processes, partnering independently with internal clients to structure and close deals aligned with revenue and strategic goals.
• Navigate and influence high-risk engagements, guiding internal stakeholders and managing opposing counsel to mitigate legal and business risks.
• Collaborate globally on training, playbooks, templates, and broader legal initiatives that support consistent, efficient commercial execution.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of experience as a lawyer or in-house legal counsel, preferably focused on complex commercial transactions.
• Completed a legal education obtained wholly or partly in Germany (e.g. Volljurist, German law degree or LL.M.), with experience in legal practice in Germany, or equivalent experience advising European companies on commercial contracting.
• Strong experience in drafting and negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements for e.g. experience in software data licensing agreements ideally within the technology, automotive, or enterprise sectors.
• High business acumen and the ability to independently and efficiently solve novel legal and commercial challenges.
• A proactive mindset, confident communication style, and the ability to partner effectively with senior leaders and counterparties.
• Fluency in German language.
• Candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process.
• This will involve employment, education, and criminal verification if applicable.

Skills

• Commercial transactions
• Legal practice in Germany
• Advising European companies on commercial contracting
• Drafting and negotiating commercial agreements
• Software data licensing agreements
• Technology sector experience
• Automotive sector experience
• Enterprise sector experience
• Business acumen
• Legal risk mitigation
• Business risk mitigation
• German language fluency

Location

• Frankfurt
• Munich
• Berlin

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Legal education obtained wholly or partly in Germany (e.g. Volljurist, German law degree or LL.M.)

About the Company

• HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company.
• They empower customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.
• At HERE, they strive to be the change they wish to see.
• They create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives.
• They are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change.

Equal Opportunity

• HERE is an equal opportunity employer.
• They evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.